Exhibit 1064 ยท Newspaper article
Tracking the Genesis of the Crack Trade (first article of the Times series 'The Cocaine Trail')
It was not orchestrated by the Contras or the CIA or any single drug ring.
First of the Times's three-part answer to the Mercury News series, published two months after it. States that the crack epidemic 'was not orchestrated by the Contras or the CIA or any single drug ring,' that Blandon 'was not "the Johnny Appleseed of crack in California",' and that less than $50,000 went to the rebel cause. Also says it is 'unclear what, if anything, the U.S. government may have known about this trade.'
- Source
- Los Angeles Times (Jesse Katz)
- Date
- 20 October 1996
- Quoted from
- Opening paragraph (full article text via the Times archive page's structured data)
- Grade
- Reported
- Document
- https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-10-20-mn-59169-story.html
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Grade reported: the article is the record of what the Times published. Second exact sentence for the open-question side: 'Although it's unclear what, if anything, the U.S. government may have known about this trade, a few truths are clear:'. The CIA's 'Managing a Nightmare' article (p. 12) cites the three-part series by date (20-22 October 1996).