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00:00:25 #1 They are moved by planes and boats and cars.
00:00:33 #2 Political borders have no meaning for them.
00:00:36 #3 They're sold on the streets of cities and on those of the suburbs.
00:00:42 #4 They found their way into schools, offices and the arenas where sports are played.
00:00:54 #5 They come in remarkable variety and are consumed by people of all races, economic classes, educational
00:01:03 #6 backgrounds and virtually all ages.
00:01:07 #7 They are illicit drugs.
00:01:09 #8 A business whose size and dollar value can only be estimated.
00:01:13 #9 A business that has become deeply ingrained in our time, place and society.
00:01:19 #10 A business the federal government has been fighting for over 60 years.
00:01:25 #11 Today the lead agency in that fight, the one responsible for the development of overall
00:01:30 #12 federal drug enforcement strategy, programs, planning and evaluation, is the Drug Enforcement
00:01:37 #13 Administration.
00:01:38 #14 DEA is responsible for the enforcement of the Control Substances Act.
00:01:51 #15 Drug law enforcement has a long and distinguished record here in the United States beginning
00:01:56 #16 back in 1915 with the passage of the Harrison Act.
00:02:01 #17 And drug law enforcement has undergone some changes, but the mission is one that anyone
00:02:09 #18 associated with drug law enforcement can be very proud of.
00:02:15 #19 The headquarters of the Drug Enforcement Administration in downtown Washington, DC.
00:02:21 #20 In this building, an agency made up of 19 field divisions, five district offices, 96 resident
00:02:28 #21 offices, and offices in over 60 cities in over 40 countries is run.
00:02:35 #22 Organized and equipped to battle sophisticated illegal drug trafficking on a variety of fronts,
00:02:41 #23 DEA is the final product of a long evolutionary process of federal drug enforcement.
00:02:47 #24 A process that began in 1915.
00:03:00 #25 1915.
00:03:02 #26 Step back in time to the United States in that year.
00:03:05 #27 World War I was being fought in Europe,
00:03:08 #28 but that was a distant conflict to most Americans.
00:03:11 #29 Here, life was still slow,
00:03:13 #30 even though cars were on the highways,
00:03:15 #31 planes were in the sky, and cities were growing fast.
00:03:20 #32 For the first time, the federal government
00:03:22 #33 became involved in drug enforcement work
00:03:24 #34 through the miscellaneous division of the Internal Revenue Service.
00:03:29 #35 162 agents served in that division,
00:03:32 #36 whose regulatory responsibility included control over olimargeron,
00:03:37 #37 adulterated butter, filled cheese, mixed flour,
00:03:41 #38 cotton futures, playing cards, and narcotics.
00:03:46 #39 10-4, I got target inside.
00:03:48 #40 In 20s were a time for new heroes, new dances, new music.
00:03:57 #41 There were enormous changes in how people lived and thought.
00:04:01 #42 It was an era of optimism and fun.
00:04:04 #43 Through most of that decade from 1920 to 1927,
00:04:08 #44 federal drug enforcement activities were carried out by the Narcotics Division of IRS's Prohibition Unit.
00:04:14 #45 In 1920, it had 170 agents and a budget of a half million dollars.
00:04:21 #46 In 1927, the Narcotics Division was placed under the Bureau of Prohibition.
00:04:26 #47 It stayed there for three years. By 1930 the full force of the Great Depression was felt.
00:04:44 #48 The country's spirit and economy so vibrant during the 20s were shattered.
00:04:49 #49 Even in these, the worst of times, federal drug enforcement remained a necessity.
00:04:55 #50 For the next 38 years, until 1968, it would be the charge of the Department of the Treasury's Bureau of Narcotics.
00:05:03 #51 The late 1960s were a turbulent and bitter time in the United States, a period of stress and rapid change.
00:05:22 #52 In 1966, the Bureau of Drug Abuse Control, Food and Drug Administration of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare was formed.
00:05:31 #53 It lasted until 1968, when the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs was established.
00:05:37 #54 It functioned for five years.
00:05:40 #55 In 1973, President Richard Nixon stated that his administration had declared an all-out
00:05:47 #56 war on the drug menace.
00:05:49 #57 He urged consolidating all federal anti-drug forces under a unified command to more efficiently
00:05:55 #58 carry out that war.
00:05:58 #59 Those forces were consolidated, and from that consolidation emerged DEA.
00:06:03 #60 The mission of DEA in relation to state and local law enforcement entities is to work with them in
00:06:12 #61 coordinating investigations to ensure that not only the highest level of the trafficker in the
00:06:18 #62 country but also those levels of traffickers which impact upon state and local authorities are
00:06:25 #63 involved in a coordinated effort. The mission of DEA is international not only are we responsible
00:06:31 #64 for Drug Law Enforcement as the lead drug enforcement agency nationally, but we are also international
00:06:39 #65 in scope. We have offices in 63 cities in 43 foreign countries and have liaison with many
00:06:47 #66 other countries in which we do not have a DEA presence.
00:06:52 #67 Today's headlines make clear that the war on drugs that President Nixon declared in
00:06:56 #68 1973 is still being waged that the agency created then is at the cutting edge of that conflict
00:07:03 #69 and that its special agents over 2,200 of them are on the front lines when you become a DEA
00:07:10 #70 agent in every sense of the word it's what I am not what I do it's not a job I interview
00:07:17 #71 people for the job and I explain to them we get paid a pitons for 10 15 or 20 hours a week
00:07:25 #72 over time but what you're going to do in your 20 year career is you're going to put 40 years
00:07:29 #73 in maybe 50. That's all a sign of what you are sacrificing to become a DEA agent. And
00:07:35 #74 we all do it and we all love it. The majority of my career I spent doing undercover work.
00:07:44 #75 I'm particularly enamored with undercover work because it combines an odd element of a combination
00:07:50 #76 of skills. It appeals to my sense of challenge. And working under cover, I've run into some
00:08:01 #77 hellacious situations. One, they happen to capture on film, which illustrates a whole
00:08:08 #78 combination of things that I teach in the undercover scenario. It's the teamwork. I
00:08:13 #79 believe my life was saved by the teamwork involved. The surveillance team picking up
00:08:17 #80 on film, a group of guys that I was going to do a drug deal with, picking them up a half
00:08:23 #81 hour before the meet while they were setting me up to rip me off and kill me.
00:08:29 #82 And because Mike Levine lives, there are thousands of people who have lost thousands and thousands
00:08:36 #83 of man years of their life in jail, and I believe thousands live because of what I
00:08:44 #84 did.
00:08:45 #85 The undercover type of work that we do is one of the most dangerous work in law enforcement.
00:08:54 #86 Every time you, or every time that I go work undercover, my body chemistry changes.
00:09:05 #87 My adrenaline begins to pump, my hands begin to sweat, my stomach, I feel butterflies in
00:09:15 #88 my stomach.
00:09:16 #89 There's just a lot of things that takes place just before I go undercover.
00:09:25 #90 It's our goal to prepare the best agent we can to put on the street, both in terms of
00:09:42 #91 his knowledge of the job, his physical fitness to carry out his duties, and have the proper
00:09:48 #92 mental conditioning and mindset to do this job.
00:09:52 #93 But most importantly, what we want to do is to prepare the agent so that he can do his
00:09:56 #94 job in the most beneficial manner to the public and also to safety for himself.
00:10:04 #95 It's very important today with the more complex investigations, with the violence
00:10:09 #96 in the drug community that our agents are prepared and are thinking safety.
00:10:15 #97 Yes, as a basic agent trainee, we go through a 13-week school which comprises academic
00:10:21 #98 courses such as law, on search and seizure, undercover operations and also drug identification.
00:10:28 #99 We also have a physical training program which not only do we do calisthenics but we
00:10:33 #100 also go in defensive tactics.
00:10:35 #101 When I think back upon undercover training specifically, there's classroom and practical,
00:10:42 #102 and both are crucial in carrying out the job.
00:10:48 #103 You not only learn the aspects of performing undercover work,
00:10:53 #104 but practical training gives you experience that you can adapt to a real-life situation.
00:11:04 #105 Another phase of training that's crucial to the job is report writing, preparing reports,
00:11:10 #106 preparing and developing a case, a case jacket, so that when you do take it to a U.S. Attorney,
00:11:16 #107 you can present your case in a manner which allows the U.S. Attorney to develop his strategy,
00:11:23 #108 his or her strategy, when it comes to trial.
00:11:27 #109 El Paso Intelligence Center.
00:11:29 #110 Your name?
00:11:31 #111 Oh, give me control name.
00:11:33 #112 El Paso Intelligence Center.
00:11:35 #113 This facility, the El Paso Intelligence Center, is an intelligence clearinghouse for drug enforcement information.
00:11:41 #114 The kind of information that is vital in any war.
00:11:45 #115 EPIC provides a unique form of continuous intelligence support for federal, state, and local investigations.
00:11:51 #116 and in her agency effort led by DEA.
00:11:54 #117 This remarkable operation, state-of-the-art intelligence gathering and
00:11:58 #118 dissemination
00:11:59 #119 is indicative of DEA's emphasis on timely
00:12:03 #120 accurate data in support of its special agents.
00:12:06 #121 One of the real advantages to the investigator in using Epic
00:12:11 #122 is that while he may have access to the databases
00:12:14 #123 of his agency and can make that check, if he were to
00:12:19 #124 contact Epic and make an inquiry here as he's developing his case it would be like a one-stop shopping center.
00:12:27 #125 He would be able to do a multi-database check all at one time.
00:12:31 #126 One particular case which comes to mind was the seizure of 1900 pounds of cocaine from the small yacht that was put on lookout by my office.
00:12:41 #127 The information was received by the Balanquilla resident office and passed to the Paso Intelligence
00:12:47 #128 Center, who in turn passed it to the U.S. Coast Guard as a lookout.
00:12:53 #129 About one week following the initial issuance of the lookout, the U.S. Coast Guard located
00:12:58 #130 the vessel, boarded it, but were unable to locate the cocaine.
00:13:03 #131 the Coast Guard called Epic who in turn called me to verify the through our
00:13:10 #132 source that in fact cocaine was on board. I did so, returned the call to the
00:13:15 #133 El Paso Intelligence Center who in turn recontacted the Coast Guard who in turn
00:13:19 #134 re-boarded the vessel, decided that they would seize the vessel and take it
00:13:24 #135 to the Guantanamo Naval Base where they would conduct a further search,
00:13:29 #136 and more thorough search. In Guantanamo Bay, they searched the vessel and discovered the
00:13:34 #137 1900 pounds of cocaine and arrested the three people on board, one of which was a DEA fugitive.
00:13:39 #138 Not all drugs are illegal. In fact, many controlled substances are illegal. Their
00:13:45 #139 manufacturers, distributors, and dispensers, however, are required by the 1970 Controlled
00:13:51 #140 Substances Act to register with DEA, an essential factor in stopping the diversion
00:13:56 #141 of such substances into illegal markets.
00:13:59 #142 The role of the diversion investigator with the Drug Enforcement Administration is to
00:14:03 #143 monitor and register the legitimate authorized handlers of controlled substances.
00:14:10 #144 There are approximately 300 investigators nationwide in the division and headquarters
00:14:14 #145 offices monitoring the activities of approximately 700,000 registrants.
00:14:20 #146 Those registrants include manufacturers, distributors, methadone treatment programs, doctors and
00:14:28 #147 pharmacies primarily. The job of the diversion investigator on a cyclic or
00:14:34 #148 routine basis must investigate the activities of certain manufacturers and
00:14:40 #149 distributors at least once every three years. At the request of state agencies
00:14:45 #150 or on a as needed basis of doctors and pharmacies would also be visited to
00:14:52 #151 determine that they are in compliance with licensing requirements and that they
00:14:57 #152 they are not diverting the substances.
00:14:59 #153 DEA's special testing in research laboratory is just that.
00:15:06 #154 Special.
00:15:07 #155 Its wide-ranging activities run the gamut from providing evidence analysis and scientific support for overseas regions
00:15:14 #156 to performing examinations of tablets and capsules as an aid in identifying the manufacturing sources of drugs.
00:15:21 #157 Beyond that, it helps a variety of law enforcement agencies, both foreign and domestic, with scientific
00:15:28 #158 and technical support.
00:15:30 #159 And the research and development done here are the basis of techniques that will be at the
00:15:34 #160 heart of this fight against drugs in the future.
00:15:37 #161 What we do here, as the name implies, special testing where we get a lot of exhibits
00:15:43 #162 in from overseas which undergo relatively in-depth chemical analysis that is relative
00:15:48 #163 to what the other DEA laboratories will do,
00:15:52 #164 in part in support of foreign agents
00:15:54 #165 and also to help us to validate signatures.
00:15:57 #166 The second major area, again, is in the United States Research.
00:16:00 #167 Much of it is geared towards source determination
00:16:04 #168 of drugs such as cocaine and heroin.
00:16:07 #169 We also do a great deal of training.
00:16:10 #170 In addition to the special testing and research
00:16:13 #171 laboratory, there are seven DEA forensic science
00:16:16 #172 laboratories located in New York, Miami, Chicago, Dallas, San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington,
00:16:24 #173 DC. These facilities, like virtually everything else associated with DEA, are designed to support
00:16:30 #174 investigative work. In this case, the work of DEA and the FBI.
00:16:36 #175 My work is a forensic chemist is to receive, analyze, and report my findings on items of
00:16:42 #176 suspected drug evidence. But naturally there's a whole lot more to the work than that. The
00:16:48 #177 primary thing of course is to work the cases. We get evidence coming in, we have to process
00:16:53 #178 it, analyze it, and then of course do the paperwork that goes to it. But there are
00:16:58 #179 a lot of other duties that are probably almost as important to the agency that people don't
00:17:03 #180 tend to think about. Going to court and testifying is a major aspect of the work
00:17:09 #181 because after all, if the case goes to trial
00:17:11 #182 and you can't get the evidence in
00:17:13 #183 and can't get the report in,
00:17:15 #184 then the agents work is in vain.
00:17:17 #185 Another major thing that we do
00:17:19 #186 is quite a bit of training activity.
00:17:22 #187 There's a lot of work that is done to, for instance,
00:17:25 #188 train new agents who are starting,
00:17:27 #189 we in this laboratory provide some of the personnel who go
00:17:31 #190 and teach things forensic having to do with the laboratory
00:17:35 #191 to the new agents starting off in Quantico.
00:17:39 #192 Then we do a lot of what you might call public relations
00:17:42 #193 training where we help various local police departments.
00:17:45 #194 We'll go out and do classes and field testing
00:17:48 #195 and clandestine laboratory safety
00:17:51 #196 and things of that sort.
00:17:52 #197 And then finally, one of the major things, which for me
00:17:57 #198 and some of the other chemists too,
00:17:59 #199 is the most fun are going on clandestine lab raids
00:18:02 #200 where we actually get a chance to get out in the field
00:18:04 #201 and see what's happening immediately on a situation
00:18:08 #202 and get in on it, not from the beginning,
00:18:10 #203 but from the middle rather than at the tail end
00:18:12 #204 as so often happens in the laboratory
00:18:14 #205 when all we do is just get the evidence
00:18:17 #206 and a cold piece of paper and have no idea
00:18:19 #207 of what happened earlier.
00:18:23 #208 DEA's primary mission is enforcement, pure and simple.
00:18:28 #209 And it's an agency that literally has its own air force
00:18:31 #210 of over 50 planes to help it carry that mission out.
00:18:34 #211 It's an agency that recognizes the international nature
00:18:37 #212 of drug trafficking at combats.
00:18:39 #213 So it operates internationally.
00:18:42 #214 It's an agency charged with bringing
00:18:44 #215 to the criminal and civil justice system of the United
00:18:46 #216 States or any other competent jurisdiction, organizations
00:18:50 #217 and their members involved in the growing, manufacture,
00:18:54 #218 or distribution of controlled substances appearing in or
00:18:57 #219 destined for illicit traffic in the United States.
00:19:01 #220 In short, DEA seeks to arrest as many major drug
00:19:04 #221 traffickers as it can.
00:19:07 #222 To do that, to do it successfully, requires a coordinated team effort, one in which operations
00:19:13 #223 receives the ongoing help of a strongly motivated and effective support staff.
00:19:18 #224 DEA has such a support staff.
00:19:21 #225 Because it does, its complex and difficult mission is efficiently accomplished, and that
00:19:26 #226 mission can take more than one form.
00:19:46 #227 Welcome to Team UP!
00:19:47 #228 NAB's special one hour satellite feed supporting sports, drug awareness in your market.
00:19:52 #229 Hi, this is Rick D'Eese.
00:19:53 #230 And now, here's your host, George Michael.
00:20:00 #231 You know the depth of Len Bias.
00:20:02 #232 A gentler side of DEA's responsibilities
00:20:05 #233 is made up of a combination of ambitious and hopeful programs
00:20:08 #234 designed to reduce the demand for illegal drugs
00:20:12 #235 by encouraging people in as many ways as possible
00:20:15 #236 to say no to those illegal drugs when they're offered.
00:20:18 #237 We want you to say no.
00:20:20 #238 And we want you to know why.
00:20:21 #239 That's the right decision.
00:20:24 #240 The predominant program with which we are involved
00:20:26 #241 is the program involving the high school coaches of the United States.
00:20:30 #242 This is our sports drug awareness program.
00:20:33 #243 We have coordinated our educational efforts with the High School Coaches Association,
00:20:39 #244 where we work with some 48,000 high school coaches who directly impact upon five and
00:20:45 #245 a half million youngsters.
00:20:47 #246 In addition, we bring in professional athletes to work with us so that they as role models
00:20:55 #247 can work with youth in order to get the anti-drug message across.
00:21:02 #248 The world of illicit drugs is a cruel, harsh, and dangerous one.
00:21:06 #249 It is also lucrative, almost beyond imagination.
00:21:10 #250 Because it is, those in it are willing to fight, virtually to the death, to maintain it.
00:21:16 #251 But because it's so destructive in every way, the fight to eliminate it must be just as hard, just as impacible.
00:21:24 #252 Over the years the federal government has sought to do just that with a variety of agencies.
00:21:30 #253 Since 1973, leadership in this vital struggle has been the responsibility of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
00:21:38 #254 The price of that leadership has been very high for some of those who have stepped forward to shoulder it.
00:21:44 #255 But DEA and its special agents, backed by dedicated professional technical and support personnel,
00:21:51 #256 has always understood why that price, however tragic, must be paid.
00:21:56 #257 Throughout this organization, there is a commitment to battle illegal drug trafficking across the United States and around the world.
00:22:04 #258 This battle is fought with zeal, bravery and imagination.
00:22:08 #259 It will continue to be fought that way for as long as it takes to rid our society of those drugs and of those who deal with them.