Video Archive

Supervisory Intelligence Analysts Craig Estancona, Ben Sanborn, Jay Cliff, and Pat Kerner provide a history of the formation of the violent Medellin Cartel and the more “businesslike” Cali Cartel as well as the role of DEA Intelligence in targeting and dismantling these groups.

Richard P. Bly, Retired DEA Special Agent/Deputy Assistant Administrator for Investigative Intelligence, speaks on the 1984 Tranquilandia operation.

Sue Webber Brown and Holly Dye discuss founding the National Drug Endangered Child Training and Advocacy Center as well as the who, what, and where of a drug endangered child.

In honor of National Prescription Drug Take Back Day sponsored by DEA, Special Agent Robert L. Hill speaks about the current issues surrounding prescription drug misuse, recent DEA operations against traffickers, and how this fast growing segment of drugs are misused.

Randy Sayles, a DEA agent who was trapped in the American Embassy in Pakistan attacked on November 21, 1979, tells the horrifying story of fear, reaction, survival, and eventual escape of those involved.

Retired Special Agent Chuck Carter provides insight into the inner workings of DEA in southwest Asia.

A review of the Foreign-Deployed Advisory and Support Teams (FAST), or the enforcement arm of DEA’s Afghan Campaign Plan and Drug Flow Attack Strategy (DFAS).

Calvin Bond, DEA Staff Coordinator, returned from Afghanistan to offer insights into DEA’s activities in the country and the current drug trafficking situation.

Susan Weiss, Ph.D., Office of Science Policy and Communications, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), highlights what we know and what we don’t about marijuana’s effects on the brain and the body.

DEA Special Agent Paul Knierim, former Country Attaché in San Jose, Costa Rica, discusses maritime, air, and overland routes and processes used by drug trafficking organizations.