Exhibit 1061 · Inspector general report · Withdrawn
Report of Investigation: Allegations of Connections Between CIA and the Contras in Cocaine Trafficking to the United States (96-0143-IG), Volume I: The California Story (Summary)
Withdrawn: Duplicate of exhibit 314 (cia-oig-1998-vol1); same document.
Volume I answers whether CIA knew of narcotics trafficking by Ricky Ross, Norwin Meneses and Danilo Blandon in Southern California, and covers Julio Zavala and Carlos Cabezas in Northern California. A 17-person team was formed after DCI Deutch asked the Inspector General to investigate on 3 September 1996. It finds no CIA employee or agent dealings with the three named traffickers and no CIA role in their prosecutions, and says CIA asked prosecutors to return about $36,000 seized from Zavala on a claim that it was Contra money.
- Source
- Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Inspector General
- Date
- 29 January 1998 (unclassified release; classified version issued 17 December 1997)
- Quoted from
- Summary, 'Conclusions: Volume I', first question
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://irp.fas.org/cia/product/cocaine/summary.html
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Mirror of the CIA's own release (FAS, CIA Products and Documents). The cia.gov original path is www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/cocaine/ (Wayback capture linked). Replace url with the cia.gov capture of the Volume I summary page before publication.