Temple, Merle

Merle Temple, a native of Tupelo, Mississippi, worked for the FBI in Washington before earning two degrees in Criminal Justice at Ole Miss where he later received the Distinguished Alumni award. He signed on with the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics (MBN) after college when Nixon declared War on Drugs.A graduate of the DEA academy and the New England Institute of Management as class president, heinfiltrated drug distribution cells and was held hostage bydealers whoplanned to kill him.In the aftermath of araid on the headquarters of a Dixie Mafia syndicate, he was lured out by two contract kille...