Volume 43, Number 19 · November 28, 1996
Drugs & the CIA
By Murray Kempton
The New York Times's Tim Golden noted recently[*] that a full quarter of the New Yorkers of color sampled in a 1990 poll believed that their own government 'deliberately makes sure that drugs are easily available in poor black neighborhoods in order to harm black people.' This impression of willful official malice was disturbing enough when registered by one out of every four African Americans. But now its contagions seem likely to swell further with a widening spread of reports that the Central Intelligence Agency stimulated the crack epidemic in the inner cities by flooding them with cocaine and using the profits to fund arms for the Nicaraguan contras.
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