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74 into the drug trade. These factors, separately or together, — were insufficient to warrant dismissal of the indictment, however, because they did not infringe any right of the —_ defendant. To present a valid defense, the court held, the misconduct "must be postured as connected in some way to the commission of the acts for which the defendant stands” convicted". 585 F2d at 447. . i Even with formal administrative regulations, violation does not require so mild a sanction as suppression of evidence, US v. Caceres, 440 US 741 (1979); much less could violation of regulations or guidelines require dismis~ sal of an indictment. Defendants point to certain "guidelines" for the conduct of undercover investigations that had been established by Attorney General Levi and that were referred to by Assistant Attorney General Heymann in his testimony before a congressional committee looking into Abscam after it went public. While many of those guidelines may have been aimed at producing "reliable" evidence, none of them . alone expresses a constitutional standard. | From the justice department's point of view, an indictment should not be brought without an excellent chance for a conviction; weak cases, therefore, are to be avoided. Most of the guidelines have the dual purposes