Bureau of Narcotics Covert Intelligence Network

Officially started in December, 1972, the Bureau of Narcotics Covert Intelligence Network (BUNCIN) was created under the auspices of Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD later renamed DEA). The official purpose was to covertly gather long-range strategic intelligence and carry out assassination sponsored by CIA under BNDD (later renamed DEA). Lucien Conein becomes head of the agency and recruits CIA agent Bob Medell in early 1973 and Grayston Lynch from CIA to join in early 1974. After Watergate the CIA ‘dirty tricks’ operations were moved to BUNCIN as CIA was under a lot of heat from Watergate fallout.

The majority of BUNCIN members were Cuban anti-Castro personnel who were familiar with Medell and Lynch. Medell was a Cuban who was part of the brigade that stormed the beaches of the Bay of Pigs. Lynch was the CIA agent in charge of the Bay of Pigs invasion.