BORDER GUARD _Also by Don Whitehead_: THE FBI STORY JOURNEY INTO CRIME Don Whitehead BORDER GUARD THE STORY OF THE UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE _McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc._ _New York_ _Toronto_ _London_ BORDER GUARD Copyright © 1963 by Don Whitehead. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form without written permission of the publishers. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-12134 First Edition 69947 _For Ruth and Gene Neilsen_ CONTENTS 1. A Slight Case of Conscience 1 2. A Time of Crisis 21 3. A President is Bamboozled 32 4. The Pirates of New Orleans 44 5. The Dark Years 55 6. Booze and Bribes 69 7. The Enforcers 86 8. Test Tube Detectives 96 9. The Informers 107 10. The Violent Border 120 11. A Dirty Business 131 12. The Case of the Crooked Diplomat 147 13. A Strange Little Room 157 14. The Diamond Smugglers 166 15. A Fool’s Dream 184 16. The Chiselers 196 17. The Innocents 213 18. The Stormy World of Art 223 19. Sex and the Censor 234 20. Of Toy Canaries and Pirates 241 21. The Middle Men 255 22. The Restless American 265 1 A SLIGHT CASE OF CONSCIENCE