Pubdate: Thu, 29 April 1999
Source: Times, The (UK)
Copyright: 1999 Times Newspapers Ltd
Contact:  http://www.the-times.co.uk/
Author: Ian Brodie

COCAINE DISGUISE

Washington: Colombia's drugs cartels have developed a black cocaine that
sniffer dogs and chemical tests cannot
detect (Ian Brodie writes).

Smugglers create the substance, known as coca negra, which has no smell;
when it reaches its destination, it is turned back into cocaine paste.

Barry McCaffrey, President Clinton's "drugs tsar", told a Senate commitee in
Washington that American narcotics agents were very concerned about the
development. The cartels have also moved cocaine in shades of red, yellow
and blue. 

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