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In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled "Dark Alliance," revealed that for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs and funneled millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras. Gary Webb pushed his investigation even further in his book, Dark Alliance- The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Drawing from then newly declassified documents, undercover DEA audio and videotapes that had never been publicly released, federal court testimony, and interviews, Webb demonstrates how our government knowingly allowed massive amounts of drugs and money to change hands at the expense of our communities. Webb's own stranger-than-fiction experience is also woven into the book. His excoriation by the media-not because of any wrongdoing on his part, but by an insidious process of innuendo and suggestion that in effect blamed Webb for the implications of the story-had been all but predicted. Webb was warned off doing a CIA expose by a former Associated Press journalist who lost his job when, years before, he had stumbled onto the germ of the "Dark Alliance" story. And though Internal investigations by both the CIA and the Justice Department eventually vindicated Webb, he had by then been pushed out of the Mercury Newsand gone to work for the California State Legislature Task Force on Government Oversight. He died in 2004.… (meer)
LamontCranston: Parry first reported the Contra connection to cocaine in 1985, but then got caught up pursuing the Iran-Contra scandal and the October Surprise, a decade before Webb. Webb interviews him in the book about this.
Gary Webb was a consummate snoop who finally got his nose into a thing that was big enough to defy coherent description. This reader is now 250 pages into "Dark Alliance" and, as I write, I'm utterly at sea regarding who's who and what's what and whodunit, etc. The thing is so big -- it involves so many people, governments, nations -- that the number of characters and places make the story too complex to follow.
Webb went ahead with it regardless. Put another way, the book reads like it was written for a prosecuting attorney and a grand jury -- and maybe it was so in fact. That would explain why Gary Webb was found dead, with two bullet holes in the back of his head, and a coroner's contemptibly ludicrous decision was that the victim was a "suicide by multiple, self-inflicted gunshot wounds."
Of one thing, I am certain: Gary Webb's treatment by his employers and fellow journalists is proof positive that the United States is no longer a free country. The American people are left to learn for themselves that two fragments of the English language are absolutely antithetical: they are "democracy" and "secret police". We can have one or the other but we cannot have both. If we persist in trying, the nation will perish with us. ( )
toegevoegd door davidgn | bewerkThe Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Michael Massing
"I find his argument to be very well documented, very careful and very convincing. In fact, the readability of the book suffers a bit from what seems to have been a fear that if he didn't include absolutely every bit of evidence he had unearthed, he would open himself up to new criticisms of inadequate reporting—but this editor's quibble shouldn't stop anyone from buying and reading Dark Alliance. Long-time followers of the contra tale are likely to find new revelations in the book…"
toegevoegd door davidgn | bewerkThe Nation, Jo Ann Kawell
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Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed. -- I. F. Stone, 1907-1989
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To Sue, with love and thanks
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When I came to work in the sprawling newsroom of the Cleveland Plain Dealer in the early 1980s, I was assigned to share a computer terminal with a tall middle-aged reporter with a long, virtually unpronounceable Polish name.
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"While there has long been solid - if largely ignored - evidence of a CIA-Contra-cocaine connection, no one has ever asked the question: 'Where did all the cocaine go once it got here?' Now we know."
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In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled "Dark Alliance," revealed that for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs and funneled millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras. Gary Webb pushed his investigation even further in his book, Dark Alliance- The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Drawing from then newly declassified documents, undercover DEA audio and videotapes that had never been publicly released, federal court testimony, and interviews, Webb demonstrates how our government knowingly allowed massive amounts of drugs and money to change hands at the expense of our communities. Webb's own stranger-than-fiction experience is also woven into the book. His excoriation by the media-not because of any wrongdoing on his part, but by an insidious process of innuendo and suggestion that in effect blamed Webb for the implications of the story-had been all but predicted. Webb was warned off doing a CIA expose by a former Associated Press journalist who lost his job when, years before, he had stumbled onto the germ of the "Dark Alliance" story. And though Internal investigations by both the CIA and the Justice Department eventually vindicated Webb, he had by then been pushed out of the Mercury Newsand gone to work for the California State Legislature Task Force on Government Oversight. He died in 2004.
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