Last I knew, this had been verified and admitted.
Admitted by whom? Little green men writing contrail messages with black helicopters?
Last I heard, the story was revealed as pure crap, and that little flaky newspaper took a black eye.
If you'd like to know more, you can still access more than you'll ever have time to read, without ever leaving FreeRepublic, just by doing a Google search.
It is my contention that the overwhelming preponderance of the evidence forces one to conclude that facets of the CIA, and other portions of our gov't., had direct complicity in the flood of drugs entering this country - not just in L.A., and not just through one or two administrations.