Who is the American Connection?

Former US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents who testified secretly before the US Senate Committee headed by Sen. Jackson (R) Washington, charge the "War On Drugs" is compromised by corruption at high levels. Jerry Laveroni infiltrated the ranks of the local pushers & was on the verge of being introduced to the head of the Los Angeles Mafia when the Southern California DEA Director ordered him to stop the investigation and return to the streets minus his badge & gun. Convinced he'd been set-up for assassination, Laveroni resigned from the DEA.

Pat Saunders, trained in electronic surveillance by phone company technicians, spent years tapping phones without ever being shown legal authorization. He began to question the DEA when, although assigned to the Los Angeles office, he was inexplicably sent to New York to "debug" the home & offices of financier Robert Vesco, a major Nixon contributor later charged with drug dealing and who became an internationally hunted fugitive. It was only after both the Director & the Asst. Director of the So. Calif. DEA had been imprisoned for corruption that Pat & Jerry dared to appear before Sen. Jackson's Committee & be interviewed by Robert Carl Cohen, declaring:
"The more people know about what goes on inside the "War On Drugs," the less reason anyone has to try to silence us."