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Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion is a 1998 book by journalist Gary Webb. The book is based on "Dark Alliance", Webb's three-part investigative series published in the San Jose Mercury News in August 1996.
Gary Webb uncovered a secret government backed scheme to flood the Black and Latino/Hispanic communities with cocaine and crack in the 1990's. He worked as a reporter for the San Jose Mercury News. He was contacted by an informant.
In July 1995, San Jose Mercury-News reporter Gary Webb found the Big One—the blockbuster story every journalist secretly dreams about—without even looking for it. A simple phone call concerning an unexceptional pending drug trial turned into a massive conspiracy involving the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, L.A. and Bay Area crack cocaine dealers ...
In August 1996, Gary Webb began publishing the results of a yearlong investigation that traced the money fueling the horrific U.S.-backed “contra” war against Nicaragua to the profits from Los Angeles’ 1980s crack epidemic.
"Presents the results of journalist Gary Webb's investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in South Central Los Angeles--a story that cost him his job after he uncovered evidence that links the U.S. government and the CIA-backed Nicaraguan contras with drug profits"--
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...
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.
Garry Webb goes deep and exposes the dark alliance between the CIA, the contras and the crack cocaine explosion!
About the author (2011) In 1996, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist GARY WEBB (1955–2004) wrote a shocking series of articles for the San Jose Mercury News exposing the CIA’s link to Nicaraguan...
The Guardia, as corrupt and deadly an organization as any in Central America, served as Somoza's military, his police, and his intelligence service. Somoza knew the...