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Drug Enforcement Administration Country Attaché Octavio Gonzalez, who was in charge of DEA's Office in Bogota, Colombia, was shot and killed in his office by an informant on December 13, 1976. He was 38 years of age at the time of his death. Special Agent Gonzalez, assigned to the Bogota...
Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Ralph N. Shaw, of the Calexico, California District Office, died May 14, 1976, in a plane crash north of Acapulco during an operations flight in support of Mexico's opium eradication program. He was 40 years of age at the time of his death. Special Agent...
Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent James T. Lunn, a pilot, assigned to the Office of Enforcement at DEA Headquarters, died on May 14, 1976, in a plane crash north of Acapulco during a flight in support of Mexico's opium eradication program. He was 35 years of age at the time...