Article: Balco executive says Bonds tried THG; Giambi, Sheffield implicated.

Byline: Sean Webby and Elliott Almond

SAN FRANCISCO _ The vice president of Balco Laboratories told federal investigators last year that Giants star Barry Bonds tried the company's new performance-enhancing drugs but didn't like how one of them made him feel _ just one of many allegations included in revelatory documents disclosed by the government Friday.

According to the investigator's report, James Valente alleged that Bonds received "the clear" and "the cream" _ code names for the steroid THG and a testosterone cream _ from Balco "on a couple of occasions." Bonds, according to the memorandum, did not like how "the clear" made him feel.

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