DID THE CIA PLAY A ROLE IN launching the crack-cocaine epidemic? A powerful series by investigative reporter Gary Webb of the San Jose Mercury News says the answer may be yes--and the charge, reviving ...

In a highly unusual critique published in his own newspaper, the editor of The San Jose Mercury News acknowledged on Sunday that a series of articles last year on the rise of crack cocaine in urban ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — In a highly unusual critique published in his own newspaper, the editor of the San Jose Mercury News acknowledged Sunday that articles last year on the rise of crack cocaine in ...

'Dark Alliance' Unravels A Few Knots In The Drug Wars' Tangled Web. By Gary Webb Dark Alliance, by Gary Webb (Seven Stories Press). Cloth, $24.95. WHEN I CAME to work in the sprawling newsroom of the ...

In January 1983, police in Los Angeles arrested frogmen bringing 400 pounds of cocaine ashore from a Colombian freighter. But they missed their main target, the drug importer Norwin Meneses, who may ...

WASHINGTON — A former leader of the Nicaraguan rebel movement in the 1980s told senators yesterday that he received money from a major Nicaraguan cocaine dealer in Southern California as well as other ...

LOS ANGELES -- With the public in the U.S. and Latin America becoming increasingly skeptical of the war on drugs, key figures in a scandal that once rocked the Central Intelligence Agency are coming ...