This is my advice before Miami Vice was cool.

And we arrested him and all that.

And when I was transferred and hired by a DEA to go to France because they needed a French

speaking agent, fluent French speaking agent, not State Department French.

And that's how they had put out a notice that they find us a fluent French speaking

agent who has narcotics experience to go work on the French connection.

And because next, what year was this?

This was in 1973.

So the French connection you're talking about there, how in time is that the same, because

the movie with Gene Hackman and Papa Doe was made before that though, right?

Right, right.

Well, no, the movie came out, believe it or not, the movie came out in 1973.

I was hired in 1972.

And what happened is I was going to school and taking a nightcack courses for my associate

police degree.

And I got pulled out a class and I said, we got a call from Mr. Ben Tyson, the director

of the, in those days, it had converted over, not yet, it hadn't converted over to BNDD.

It was still at the end.

And Ben, we called him the Batman, he was the director of the Miami office.

And I mean, quite a guy looked like a mobser.

And it says, he wants you in Miami immediately.

So I said, oh, this has got to be important.

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