[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 130 (Thursday, September 19, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H10607]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      SELECT COMMITTEE NEEDED TO INVESTIGATE CIA/CRACK CONNECTIONS

  (Ms. WATERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I demand that this House investigate recent 
reports of CIA-organized military efforts which led to the introduction 
of crack cocaine into south central Los Angeles and other inner city 
areas.
  The San Jose Mercury News, in a recent series of newspaper articles, 
has documented the involvement of CIA operatives in the earliest 
trafficking of crack cocaine into this country.
  Crack cocaine has ravaged our communities with despair, violence, 
addiction, and death. In what appears to be an overzealous attempt to 
raise money for the Nicaraguan Contras in the early 1980's, it is 
alleged that the CIA-run Contras used profits, profits made from 
selling drugs in the United States, to fund their movement.
  Mr. Speaker, these charges are so severe that they require immediate 
congressional action. Today, I call on this House to pass legislation I 
have introduced enabling an Iran-Contra-type select committee to get to 
the bottom of the allegations that have been made.
  We cannot wait to consider this matter, Mr. Speaker. Too much time 
has been lost already.

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