Michael levine dea interview
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WoD: Interview with Ex-DEA Agent Michael Levine
Interview with Michael Levine
November 9,
Causes and Cures
Marble Collegiate Church
New York, New York
by Paul DeRienzo
Michael Levine is a veteran of 26 years of under cover work for four federal
agencies. He is the recipient of many Justice and Treasury Department awards
for his work undercover, including the International Narcotics Enforcement
Officer Association's Octavio Gonzales Award.
Levine is also the subject of Donald Goddard's book Undercover. Levine
retired from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in , at which
time he was group supervisor in the New York office. His first book, Deep
Cover, was published in by Delacorte Press, and is now available in
softcover from Dell. His most recent book, released by Dell earlier this
year, is Fight Back: How to Take Your Neighborhood, Schools and Family Back
From the Drug Dealer. Levine is currently working on his third book, Queen
of Cocaine.
PD: How did you become a DEA agent? Was it like Miami Vice?
ML: I was wild, I was a very bad kid from the South Bronx, really bad. By
some miracle I never got into heroin. Heroin was already big in the 50's in
my neighborhood. My brother David became a heroin addict at I was a wino
who joined
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Going Bad
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ROBERT KNIGHT: This is UNDERCURRENTS for Monday, November 11th, I'm Robert Knight, with Paul DeRienzo in the field, at the Marble Collegiate Church in New York City where Saturday there was held a conference -- a city national teleconference called, "Causes and Cures: A National Campaign on the Narcotics Epidemic." Present at that teleconference were such experts in the drug field as Michael Levine, Peter Dale Scott, Alfred McCoy and Daniel Sheehan of the Christic Institute.
In today's program, we'll be hearing a special interview, conducted by Paul DeRienzo, with former United States Drug Enforcement Agency officer Michael Levine.
MICHAEL LEVINE: I was a very wild kid from the South Bronx. Really bad. By some miracle I never got into heroin. Heroin was already rampant in the `50s in my neighborhood. My brother David became a heroin addict at fifteen. But I was a wino -- a wino who joined the Military. I was a very violent kid, looking for some direction. In the Air Force, I became a boxer. I was still looking for direction, for some meaning in my life.
The odyssey began with a fight that I had with another guy in the Air Force. We were both military policemen -- dog-handlers. It was over a three-dollar hat. He stuck a gun in