He was appointed Acting DEA Administrator on January 23, 1976, and confirmed by the United States Senate on February 5, 1976.

He served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.

With that operation, the DEA and the Mexican government fought illegal poppy plantations in Mexico by destroying crops with spraying and lead to many arrests of drug offenders.

[1] Peter B. Bensinger was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State's highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 1998 in the area of Government.

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