"Disrupt, Dismantle, and Destroy: The Kingpin Strategy

Kickoff of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Lecture Series

"Disrupt, Dismantle, and Destroy: The Kingpin Strategy

"THURSDAY, December 10^th, 1-2 p.m. EDT 

Streaming live from the DEA HQ Auditorium with free reserved tickets.

Streaming link will be emailed to all ticket holders. 

Hosted by Josh Edmundson, Curator of Education for the DEA Museum

 BACKGROUND: Former Administrator Robert C. Bonner joins us in the first installment of the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum & Visitor Center’s fiscal year 2021 lecture series Disrupt, Dismantle, and Destroy. The series will complement the newly-renovated museum’s first changing exhibit which features objects from the collection that relate to DEAs Kingpin Strategy. Mr. Bonner will speak about leading DEA as it put the “Kingpin Strategy” into place in the early 1990s to combat violent and powerful drug trafficking organizations.

The Kingpin Strategy attacks drug organizations’ most vulnerable areas-leadership, production, distribution, and assets. DEA designed the strategy to weaken, destroy, and dismantle major drug trafficking organizations.

Speaking alongside Administrator Bonner is retired DEA Regional Director Jay Bergman. Mr. Bergman was the longest-serving regional director in the history of DEA, and was stationed in Bogota, Colombia, from 2009-2015. He will talk about the evolution and success of the strategy during his time in Colombia.