Interview with Henry Giordano in the American Legion Magazine 20th January 1964

Purchased by the Museum of Drugs Paraphernalia and Related Antiquities May 2011

Henry Giordano was named Commissioner in August 1962, following 21 years service with the Bureau as agent, district supervisor, field supervisor, and assistant deputy commissioner. Today he's 49.

Martin: As a layman I feel that you are face to face witha formidable thing, a criminal cancer well worth trying to cut out of the body politic. Is that about right?

Giordano: Absolutely

Martin: I've been told that the communists are trying to flood our country with narcotics to weaken our moral and physical stamins. Is that true?

Giordano: As far as drugs coming out of the Far East are concerned, it's true. There's a terrific flow of drugs coming out of the Yunnan Province of China.