Planting them on people, sure, but they're not running around *distributing* such things. What would be the point? If you want to arrest someone for drugs and you have some drugs you can come up with a pretext to search their car and "find" the drugs, and this is much less risky for you than just... distributing them.
From August 18–20, 1996, the San Jose Mercury News published the Dark Alliance series by Gary Webb,[10][11] which claimed:
For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. [This drug ring] opened the first pipeline between Colombia's cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles [and, as a result,] the cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America.[12]
To support these claims, the series focused on three men: Ricky Ross, Oscar Danilo Blandón, and Norwin Meneses. According to the series, Ross was a major drug dealer in Los Angeles, and Blandón and Meneses were Nicaraguans who smuggled drugs into the U.S. and supplied dealers like Ross. The series alleged that the three had relationships with the Contras and the CIA, and that law enforcement agencies failed to successfully prosecute them largely due to their Contra and CIA connections.
There's more; this is controversial. But plenty of people take it as fact that the CIA peddled drugs in black communities to turn a quick buck to fund things it didn't want Congress to know it was up to, and to undermine the social stability of those communities.
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Date: 2020-06-30 07:33 am (UTC)No, actually distributing them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_cocaine_trafficking :There's more; this is controversial. But plenty of people take it as fact that the CIA peddled drugs in black communities to turn a quick buck to fund things it didn't want Congress to know it was up to, and to undermine the social stability of those communities.