Project Gutenberg 2024-01-12 Public domain in the USA. 513 Whitehead, Don 1908 1981 Beachhead Don 63012134 Border guard : $b The story of the United States Customs Service 1st edition. $aUnited States :$bMcGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., $c1963. Brian Wilson, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) "Border Guard: The Story of the United States Customs Service" by Don Whitehead is a historical account written in the mid-20th century. The book elaborates on the development, challenges, and key events surrounding the United States Customs Service, highlighting its role as the country's primary border protection agency. It dives into various cases and incidents throughout history that showcase the struggles and successes of Customs agents against smuggling and illegal activities. The opening of the book introduces the issue of drug smuggling, focusing on a specific case involving a young seaman named Truls Arild Halvorsen. Halvorsen's journey begins with his encounter in Hong Kong, where he is lured into a smuggling operation to transport heroin to San Francisco. The text paints a vivid picture of his naive excitement, followed by fear and regret as he becomes a pawn in a dangerous game of international drug trafficking. As Halvorsen navigates through his predicament, it sets the stage for broader discussions on the Customs Service's history and operations against such illegal activities. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015035097081 20190909033720whitehead 1963 US Reading ease score: 70.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en United States. Bureau of Customs United States. Division of Customs Customs administration -- United States Smuggling -- United States HJ Text Category: History - American Category: History - Modern (1750+) Category: Drugs/Alcohol/Pharmacology Category: Law & Criminology 697635 2025-09-28T14:37:23.329620 text/html 672081 2024-01-12T07:44:31 text/html 378101 2025-09-28T14:37:32.732561 application/epub+zip 375037 2025-09-28T14:37:25.473556 application/epub+zip 348912 2025-09-28T14:37:24.460544 application/epub+zip 578257 2025-09-28T14:37:38.184513 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 537130 2025-09-28T14:37:31.814555 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 652275 2025-09-28T14:37:22.025588 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 632365 2024-01-12T07:44:31 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17151 2025-09-28T14:37:38.332498 application/rdf+xml 9404 2025-09-28T14:37:24.662525 image/jpeg 2090 2025-09-28T14:37:24.561525 image/jpeg 328172 2025-09-28T14:37:23.381568 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia