F-1998-01508 INITIAL REQUEST

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00149918
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• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2022
• Case Number: F-2018-02673
• Publication Date: July 24, 1998

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CIA in cocaine epidemic
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nal Justice Depme repor4-.
fottud the department and CIA
blameless in the crack cocain
epidemic that spread from inns
cities to the rest of the U
States in the 1980s, its author
on Thursday.
The report from the J
De � artment's in
oun no evi ence
upper allegations that CIA em-
ployees or agents colluded with
allies of Nicaraguan (b)(3)
� rebels to finance their (b)(6)
operations by bringing IIZ
caine into the United States.
A 1996 series of articles in tl�
San Jose (Calif.) Mercury. Nemo1
claimed a California drug riti
funneled profits to the Ni 474
guan Contra rebels for the better
part of a decade: The seri*:)
traced the drugs to traffickers:ri
wlio were also leaders of .a C14-iit
run guerrilla army in Nicaragua
during the 1980s.
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said in a statement.
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