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Gas chromatograph–mass spectrometer pictured in a GAO report
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The Shipment and the Missing Name

Investigators can follow fentanyl from a chemical supplier to a payment and a tested shipment.…

A collection of U.S. dollar banknotes
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What Happened to the Other Dollars?

A $200 million monthly estimate became one of the most durable numbers in accounts of…

A collection of U.S. dollar banknotes
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The New Competitors: Chinese Money Networks and the Lebanese Brokers

In January 2021, an American operative named Edgar Joel Martinez-Reyes slipped across the southern border…

Official 2025 portrait of Derek Maltz.
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Project Cassandra: The Investigation That Outlived Its Team

Inside the fortified, windowless operations bunker of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Special Operations Division in Chantilly, Virginia, a whiteboard once…

Exterior of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Office Building at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan.
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The Men Who Looked: Hezbollah’s American Surveillance Cases

On an ordinary spring morning in April 2016, two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents quietly approached a polished, thirty-two-year-old engineer…