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Title: Deep Cover: The Inside Story of How DEA Infighting, Incompetence and Subterfuge Lost Us the Biggest Battle of the Drug War by Michael Levine, Michael L:evine ISBN: 0-595-09264-0 Publisher: iUniverse Publishing Services Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Objective and hard-hitting
Comment: I am a retired DEA Field Division SAC. Levine's book, like his radio program, is objective and doesn't pull any punches. The lack of cooperation between organizations is well-known to anyone inside and Levine describes this infighting with brutal candor. The cost to Americans who expect more of their government is painfully high. Well-researched and documented.
Rating: 5
Summary: Factual Truth Upon Truth
Comment: Fact: The U.S. government traffics narcotics, and also lets drug-dealing nations and cartels go unmolested, if it is the politically expedient thing to do. Yet at the same time, the Federal government was at the time of writing, and still is today, waging a "War on Drugs." As most knowledgeable Americans are now aware, this was a facade, and much more distressing, an act of hypocrisy. The so-called War on Drugs has allowed the U.S. government to further erode citizens' rights, unjustly seize property, and further establish a 1984ish "Big Brother," America. This book should be read.
Author Michael Levine noted many interesting insights into the D.E.A., how it functions, and how this bureaucratic machine plays role in relation to foreign policy, and the political pressures that guide and influence this agency. Levine was considered to be the D.E.A's number one undercover agent, having arrested over 3,000 individuals over twenty-five years.
Seeking truth, and having passion for his career, and strongly believing in the mission statement of the Drug Enforcement Agency, He wrote in a very direct manner which I appreciate. What he observed in the agency was contrary to his life's work, and he had the courage and drive to speak out about it. In certain instances, the more a D.E.A. agent penetrated into serious drug operations, the more anxious and admonishing the bureaucratic "suits" who ran the agency in Washington D.C. became.
When he and the agency came to close to nailing major drug kingpins, some with high political status in some South American nations, the agency basically shut the operation down. Some of the Cold War alliances the U.S. had with nation-states were similar to it's relations/alliances to drug-dealing countries and cartel kingpins. The Cold War made strange bedfellows politically and this transgressed into the War on drugs.
The most appropriate thing to do is prosecute United States political figures, Military, D.E.A., and C.I.A. bureaucrats for trafficking and conspiring to traffic narcotics. Of course we all know, that isn't going to happen. Yet we must fill our prisons with nonviolent, small-time working stiffs, casual drug users, to serve out mandatory minimum sentences.
Rating: 4
Summary: Is our government really trying to curb illicit drug use?
Comment: Money is the root of all kinds of evil and this case is no different. Deep Cover points out not only the incompetence of the DEA, but also an ageless tale of Greed that controls the irrational actions of many men.
Mr. levine has seen the inside of the US DEA. He has personally witnessed the corruption of Agents and Supervisors. What is their motivation? Cold hard cash! Nothing more and nothing less. How else could men excuse the propagation of harmful illicit drugs into the American culture.
Although the book does not exude the danger and excitement of Rogue Warrior, it is none the less insightful and may serve as a wake up call for many.
The government for the people, should be open and held accountable by the people.
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Title: The Big White Lie: The CIA and the Cocaine/Crack Epidemic by Michael Levine, Laura Kavanau-Levine ISBN: 156025064X Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win by Elaine Shannon ISBN: 0670810266 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: October, 1988 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Narc : The Unconventional Life and Times of a Federal Narcotics Agent by Harold Davidson ISBN: 0967950317 Publisher: Virtual Publications Pub. Date: 28 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Drug Smuggling : The Forbidden Book by K. Hawkeye Gross ISBN: 0873646851 Publisher: Paladin Press Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Dead on Delivery: Inside the Drug Wars, Straight from the Street by Robert M. Stutman, Richard Esposito ISBN: 0446515582 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: June, 1992 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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