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.