On the evening of October 12, 1972, a 25-year-old male federal agent named Frank Tummillo was killed during an undercover drug operation in a hotel on Manhattan's West Side. Tummillo, a Special Agent for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, was in the process of negotiating the purchase of ten kilograms of cocaine from two traffickers. He had shown the two men the $160,000 in cash intended for the transaction.
After the initial meeting, the two traffickers left the hotel room, sup
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