Decades before National Public Radio became embroiled in allegations of political bias, its newsroom was a den of iniquity, according to a new book by veteran journalist Steve Oney.

NPR had a staffer in the late 1970s and early 1980s who doubled as a cocaine dealer, routinely making deliveries to employees in the radio station’s office, Oney said, The Daily Caller reported Wednesday.

“You could page him over the NPR intercom system, and he would come to your studio or your cubicle with cocaine that he would sell,” said Oney, whose book “On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR” was released March 11.

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