Exhibit 1066 ยท Wire report
Newspaper: Problems in story linking CIA, crack ('We fell short at every step', editor writes in letter to readers)
I believe that we fell short at every step of our process - in the writing, editing and production of our work.
AP report on the 11 May 1997 open letter by San Jose Mercury News executive editor Jerry Ceppos. The letter says the paper solidly documented a Contra-associated drug ring selling large quantities of cocaine in Los Angeles with some profits going to the Contras, and also that the series omitted conflicting information, presented estimates as fact and implied CIA knowledge it could not prove. AP says Webb disagreed with the paper's re-examination.
- Source
- Associated Press, as carried by the Spokesman-Review
- Date
- 12 May 1997 (letter published 11 May 1997)
- Quoted from
- AP text, quoted from the letter
- Grade
- Reported
- Document
- https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/may/12/newspaper-problems-in-story-linking-cia-crack-we
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Grade reported (AP quoting the letter). Primary replacement: the 11 May 1997 column in the San Jose Mercury News (sjmercury.com/drugs, archived), not retrieved. Second exact sentence: 'We also did not include CIA comment about our findings, and I think we should have.'