Gregory D. Lee

Nationally Syndicated Columnist & Criminal Justice Consultant

 

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Gregory D. Lee is a retired Supervisory Special Agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and is a former instructor at the FBI Academy. He provides a wide range of consulting, training, and expert witness services for the legal community and law enforcement agencies. 

Based in Central California's beautiful Monterey Peninsula, Greg is a nationally syndicated columnist for North Star Writers Group and a Contributing Editor for Family Security Matters.org. His weekly columns can be found on many other websites and they can be read by clicking on the above logos.

Mr. Lee's expertise covers the entire spectrum of drug law enforcement. He is a qualified expert witness who will thoroughly review both criminal and civil discovery material and provide his clients with a written case analysis based on his over 30-years of law enforcement experience. His specific areas of expertise include police procedure, informant use and management, deadly force, use of force, arrest procedures, raid planning and execution, undercover operations, physical and electronic surveillance, money laundering, drug identification, clandestine laboratories, terrorism, and investigative procedures, to name a few.

Greg literally wrote the book on drug investigations. He is the author of Global Drug Enforcement: Practical Investigative Techniques, published by CRC Press (2004). Prentice Hall publishes his other two books, Conspiracy Investigations: Terrorism, Drugs and Gangs (2005) and Practical Criminal Evidence (2006). At the invitation of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY, he wrote "The Global Drug Trade and its Nexus to Terrorism," which is chapter 11 of Volume II, Part II, of Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century: International Perspectives, Praeger Security International/Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (2007). Throughout his DEA career he wrote numerous articles for professional law enforcement publications.

He was the last Resident Agent in Charge of DEA's Karachi Office, and lived and worked throughout Pakistan between 1994 and 1998, experiencing terrorism first-hand. The office finally closed after it became too dangerous to continue operations there, even for the cowboys of DEA. In 1995, while assigned at the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, he directly participated in the arrest of Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 New York City World Trade Center bombing, collected vital evidence and later testified at his trial. At the time of his arrest, Yousef was plotting to destroy 12 U.S. airliners simultaneously over the Pacific Ocean, which would have caused the deaths of over 3,600 people, more than that experienced on 9/11. He appeared on the Discovery Channel's documentary show, The FBI Files, concerning his contributions in the arrest of Mir Aimal Kanzi, the lone terrorist who murdered two CIA employees outside their headquarters in 1993. While in Karachi, he was involved in the initial investigation of the killing of four U.S. Citizen employees of the United Texas Petroleum Company, and their Pakistani driver, by terrorists.

Greg's last DEA assignment was at the Los Angeles Division as the Coordinator for the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces Program.

Prior to his assignment in Pakistan, Greg was an instructor at DEA's Office of Training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia where he trained many domestic and foreign law enforcement officials around the world.

In 1990, he was a counselor and graduate of the 160th Session of the FBI National Academy.

In his 37th year of service to his country, Greg is an active Reserve Chief Warrant Officer 5/Special Agent with the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, better known as CID. After being called to active duty as a result of the events of September 11, he spent a year assigned to the Army Operations Center's Anti-Terrorism Operations Intelligence Cell. It was his unique experiences in the investigation of terrorism and international drug trafficking organizations that led to his assignment at the Pentagon. He is a Subject Matter Expert on Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Drug Operations for the U.S. Army Military Police School. He has guest lectured for the Department of Law at the United States Military Academy, West Point the Defense Intelligence Agency's Joint Military Intelligence Training Center, Washington, DC  and the Department of Defense Executive Management Development and Tgraining Program, sponsored by The George Washington University's Elliot School of International Affairs, Washington, DC. He is also a frequent guest of radio talk shows throughout the country.

In 2005, Mr. Lee was selected as the Lead Instructor for the U.S. Department of State's Antiterrorism Assistance Program’s 9-week "Preventing, Interdicting and Investigating Acts of Terrorism" course conducted in Islamabad, Pakistan. 

Here is a listing of Greg Lee's latest media appearances/interviews/consultations:

- Sunday Express, London, England
- North County Times, San Diego, CA
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio
- KGO AM 810 New Talk Radio, San Francisco, CA
- Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, KALW FM 91.7, NPR, San Francisco, CA
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Ridin' Dirty, with Heidi Foglesong and Ken Sharp, KLAA, AM 830, Los Angeles
- Morning Drive, with Bubba and Tarsha, Pensacola, FL
- Morning Zone, with Dave Chaffin, KGAB, Cheyenne, WY
- Alan Anthony Show, KYNO, Fresno, CA
- Let's Talk Frank with Lee and Terry Frank, AM 850 WKVL, Knoxville, TN
- The Daily Report With Colonel Ray, AM 710 KURV, McAllister, TX
- Bill And Joel In The Mornings, WDUN, AM 550, Gainesville, GA (Two appearances)
- Aljazeera News Network

- KTRH News/Talk Radio, Houston, TX
- Nuts Magazine, UK
- Press Enterprise, Riverside, CA
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The Trevor Carey Show, KNUS AM 710, Denver, CO
- Times Standard, Eureka, CA
- La Opinion, Los Angeles, CA
- The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH
- ABC News, World News Tonight
- The Trevor Carey Show, KNUS AM 710, Denver, CO
- Monterey County Herald, Guest Columnist
- 1310 KFKA, AM Colorado, Greeley, CO
- NBC - 26, Green Bay, WI
- Fox News Radio Blacksburg, VA
- New York Times
- Health, Law and Politics with Jonathan Emond
- Florida Today
- The News-Press, Fort Myers, FL
- Beyond The Beltway, with Bruce DuMont
- The Baltimore Sun
- Baltimore Examiner
- All Things Considered, National Public Radio
- Bloomberg News Service
- News Times, Danberry, CT
- American Lawyer Magazine
- The Herald Dispatch, Huntington, WV
- The Boston Globe
- San Diego Union Tribune
- CBS Affiliate, KFOR Television, Miami, FL
- CNN
- The Trevor Carey Show, KAGM FM 106.3, Albuquerque, NM
- Comcast News Makers, South FL
- Star News, Wilmington, NC
- New Times, Miami, FL
- The Geoff Metcalf Show, Second Appearance
- Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ
- Radio Free Europe Herald News, Passaic, NJ
- Austin American Statesman, Austin, TX
- Moneylaundering.com
- ABC Radio Network News
- The Barbara Simpson Show, KSFO, AM 560, San Francisco
- The Geoff Metcalf Show, Liberty Broadcasting Network
- The Gary Sieber Show, WTRC AM 1340, Elkhart, IN
- The Jerry Germain Show, WFAD AM Radio, Middlebury, VT
- The Washington Post







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"Greg Lee has produced the textbook on drug enforcement operations. . .I strongly recommend this book to anyone involved in the field of narcotics enforcement, be they agent, detective, or supervisor."

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Gary Edgington, Special Agent Supervisor, CA Department of Justice, and Former CA Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement Agent (Ret.)

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"I am not aware of a textbook currently available which provides this depth and focus on conspiracy investigations. The material is relevant and current. The author obviously has a rich blend of both practical and academic preparation."

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Ronald D. Swan, Lincoln College, Normal, IL

Conspiracy Investigations: Terrorism, Drugs and Gangs is published by Prentice Hall

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Practical Criminal Evidence, published by Prentice Hall, is Gregory D. Lee's latest book, and is available thru www.amazon.com and college book stores.

For an initial free consultation, 24/7, Please Contact: Gregory D. Lee,  (831) 920-7367. The email address is: info@gregorydlee.com. Mailing addess is: P.O. Box 1195, Pebble Beach, CA 93953-1195.