My interviews with the DEA and FBI

It may come as a surprise to many people that I’ve spoken to numerous DEA and FBI agents while writing my upcoming book (my new publisher is targeting a release date in the Fall of 2009). Before I sent the book to my agent, I called the DEA and FBI agents I spoke to, and read them the portions where they were either mentioned or quoted, and asked if it was an accurate portrayal of the dialogue we’d had.

After reading numerous passages to the agents whom I spoke to, none of them needed me to revise anything. In other words, my transcription was totally accurate. If you’re interested in hearing the DEA/FBI on steroids and what they have to say…then you’ll like my new book. I have to admit that the agents I spoke to (some of whom requested anonymity) were forthcoming and intelligent. I didn’t ask them anything inappropriate, and as a result, they knew that my door was open for them to ask me questions also.

If you are thinking that this was like some kind of scene from Heat, you couldn’t be more wrong. I’m an author/journalist, and I use steroids legally. They don’t have any problem with me. In fact, one of the things they constantly stressed was that the DEA and FBI are not political organizations. In other words, they enforce laws, but they don’t have a political position on them; if steroids became legal tomorrow, half the agents I conducted interviews with would be glad to focus on so-called hard drugs.

Honestly, I can only remember them calling ME for information three times. One time, a woman from a Texas branch of the FBI called me, then said that she had received an email from a colleague about me in another branch, and no longer needed to talk to me.

Another time, a DEA agent asked me if I thought that there were more abscess and infections with Underground gear, and I said that I’m sure there are - but added that I almost never see or hear anything about them. I then got into a long winded monologue about Chinese imports in general, which I’m sure the agent was only humoring me by listening to.

And the only other time I really remember being called by the DEA (or was it the FBI?) was in reference to the Mitchell Report (yeah, believe it or not).

I think that people will really have their eyes opened by my new book, regarding Federal Law Enforcement agencies and what actually does and does not happen - and what kind of people they are. Of course, while I was writing my new book, I also referenced something called “THE STEROID USER’S SURVIVAL GUIDE” which was written by a former DEA agent (and has been out of print since the late ’90s)…and will give you an entirely different view of how things are really done.