Gary Webb
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Excerpts from "Managing a Nightmare: How the CIA Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb," by Ryan Devereaux The Intercept, September 25 2014 Eighteen years after it was published, “Dark Alliance,” the San Jose Mercury News’s bombshell investigation into links between the cocaine trade, Nicaragua’s Contra rebels, and African American neighborhoods in California, remains one of the most explosive and controversial exposés in American journalism.
Since the end of World War Two the Central Intelligence Agency has been a major force in US and foreign news media, exerting considerable influence over what the public sees, hears and reads on a regular basis.
Also see: "Lexington Comair Crash Supplemental: Gary Webb's ACS Story" (Re Affiliated Computer Services)The Pariah: Gary Webb, The CIA, and Cocaine TraffickingJuan LongwoodJan 03, 2009Two weeks after Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" series appeared in the San Jose Mercury News in August 1996, contributing editor Charles Bowden found himself in a bar, having a few drinks with some narcs (his idea of a good night).
By Chris Burke | AllVoices | Jun 04, 2010 The Jamaican 'Shower Posse' has made international headlines recently for inciting rebellion and murder in the streets of Kingston, Jamaica.