Levine has testified as an
expert witness in 500 civil and criminal trials in the US and abroad, and has lectured on Undercover Operations and Human Intelligence for the U.S.
Defense Intelligence Agency, the U.S.
Federal Bureau of Investigation's advanced undercover seminar, the
New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services and the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Levine's career as an
undercover agent first became public with the publication of his DEA-authorized biography in March 1988,
Undercover. In March 1988, Levine wrote a letter to the
New York Daily News about how he wanted to arrest
Howard Stern after Stern had been joking on the radio about drugs being used backstage before his
pay-per-view show ''
Howard Stern's Negligeé and Underpants Party''. Special Agent in Charge for the New York City office of the DEA Robert Stutman denied any investigation into Stern and said "Levine's letter was written without the agency's knowledge." However, in Levine's follow-up book
Deep Cover, Levine claimed that the letter to
Daily News as well as the Stern investigation had not only been authorized by DEA and the Department of Justice, but that Stern's media clout had caused the DEA to back down from the investigation. Also in
Deep Cover, Levine claimed that
Edwin Meese, the then
United States Attorney General, had unmasked a DEA undercover team, posing as a
Mafia family, that had penetrated the office of the
President of Mexico and was "buying" Mexican military protection for the transportation of 15 tons of cocaine through Mexico into the United States. In May 2011,
Evo Morales, the
President of Bolivia, held up Levine's book
La Guerra Falsa for the press to photograph, citing it as justification for his expelling the DEA from Bolivia on what he said was the basis of DEA using the
war on drugs to manipulate the
Bolivian government.
La Guerra Falsa, was the Spanish translation of Levine's
The Big White Lie. Levine replied in several articles that, "if President Morales had read the book he would have welcomed DEA as heroes and booted CIA from his country for betraying both the Bolivian and American people". Since 1995 he has co-hosted
The Expert Witness Radio Show with musician Mark Marshall on the
Pacifica Radio Network station
WBAI-FM in New York. On August 11 2008, Levine was featured on
The Colbert Report in a segment entitled "Nailed 'Em," which pokes fun at the American justice system for law enforcement activity that some would consider trivial or frivolous. The episode focused on a
medical marijuana patient who was denied a job for failing a
drug test. Levine has also been featured as an expert commentator on
Dateline NBC,
The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,
Inside Edition,
60 Minutes,
Crier Report,
The Geraldo Rivera Show,
Crossfire,
Good Morning America, NBC and CBS morning shows,
Cold Blood,
The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch,
Charlie Rose,
Bill Moyers'
Project Censored, and
Contrapunto (
Crossfires Spanish language version). ==Bibliography==