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December, 2000

National Secrets RevealedIn December 1970 Elvis Presley sent a handwritten letter to President Richard Nixon, expressing his desire to be appointed a federal agent at large for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (forerunner of the DEA). "I have done an in-depth study of drug abuse and Communist brainwashing techniques," the King explained in his letter, "and I am right in the middle of the whole thing where I can and will do the most good." Perhaps anticipating that...

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