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people to the dangers of drugs. Subsequent nationwide community outreach efforts under that program evolved and expanded through such initiatives as the Adopt-A-School/Junior G-Man Program. . THE POST-COLD WAR WORLD The dismantling of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 electrified the world and dramatically rang up the Iron Curtain on the final act in the Cold War: the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union, which occurred on December 25, 1991. While world leaders scrambled to reposition their foreign policies and redefine national security parameters, the. FBI responded as an agency in January 1992 by reassigning 300 Special Agents from foreign counterintelligence duties to violent crime investigations across the country. It was an unprecedented opportunity to intensify efforts in burgeoning domestic crime Problems--and at the same time to rethink and retool FBI national security programs in counterintelligence and counterterrorism. In response to a 40-percent increase in crimes of violence over the previous 10 years, Director Sessions’ had designated the investigation of violent crime as the FBI’s sixth national priority program in 1989. By November 1991 the FEI had created "Operation Safe Streets" in Washington, D.C.--a concept of federal, state, and local police task forces targeting fucitives and gangs. It was now ready to expand this operational assistance to police nationwide. At the same time, the FBI Laboratory helped change the face of violent criminal identification. Its breakthrough use of DNA technology enabled genetic crime-scene evidence to positively identify--or rule out--suspects by comparing their perticular DNA patterns. This unique identifier enabled the creation of a national DNA Index similar to the fingerprint index, which head been implemented in 1924. The FBI also strengthened its response to white-collar crimes. Popularized as "crime in the suites," these nonviclent+ crimes had steadily increased as automation in and deresulation cé industries had created new envirtnments for fraud. Resources were, accordingly, redirected to combat the new wave of large-scale insider bank fraud and financial crimes; to address criminal > sanctions in new federal environmental legislation; and to establish long-term investigations of complex health care frauds. At the same time, the FBI reassessed its strategies in defending the national security, now no longer defined as the containment of communism and the prevention of nuclear war. 18