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Maturing and Making an Impact—Coast Guard Intelligence in the 1980s and 1990s
—In the early 1990s Coast Guard Intelligence made extensive contributions to mass migration preparation and response.
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Raising “The White Picket Fence”—the origin of the Coast Guard’s Haitian Migration Interdiction Operations
—While 1980 is most remembered for the arrival of 125,00 Cuban refugees during the Mariel Boatlift, thousands of Haitians also arrived in south Florida by sea that same year. They were collectively referred to as “Cuban-Haitian Entrants.”
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The service’s first drug seizure at sea? The mostly mistaken case of the George E Starr
—"On August 31 the American Steamer George E Starr was seized on Puget Sound by a detail of four officers and 18 men sent from the Wolcott. Two Chinese subjects, together with a quantity of opium, were discovered secreted on board. "