Gary Webb's 1996 'Dark Alliance' series in the San Jose Mercury News documented how CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras smuggled cocaine into the US, with proceeds funding their war. Webb was attacked by major newspapers and his career destroyed. In 1998, CIA Inspector General Frederick Hitz confirmed the CIA had indeed worked with known drug traffickers and had an agreement with the DOJ to not report drug crimes by CIA assets.
The CIA facilitated cocaine trafficking by Contra rebels, fueling the crack epidemic in American cities
βThe CIA knowingly allowed Contra drug traffickers to flood American cities with cocaine to fund their covert war in Nicaragua.β
π The Receipts
βοΈ The Record, Side by Side
What they said vs. what the evidence shows
βWebb's series is a post-hoc rationalization of events, lacking solid evidence of a CIA-directed conspiracy to flood Black neighborhoods with crack.β
β Washington Post / New York Times / LA Times Β· Oct 1996
π They Laughed At Us
βWebb's series is a post-hoc rationalization of events, lacking solid evidence of a CIA-directed conspiracy to flood Black neighborhoods with crack.β
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Confirmed: They Were Right
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