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Article: CIA-DRUG TIE UNPROVEN, PANEL TOLD.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- October 24, 1996
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Byline: Thomas Farragher Knight-Ridder Tribune News Wire
No direct link connects the Central Intelligence Agency to a crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles, a former investigator into the labyrinthine Central American drug wars told a Senate panel Wednesday.
But arguing that the U.S. government's integrity is at stake, a key Senate committee chairman vowed to bolster two current government probes - perhaps with congressional subpoena power - into possible CIA ties to a drug ring that helped touch off the crack scourge of the 1980s.
``We have some tools that you don't have,'' Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on ...