This collection of texts, images, and audio files is a copy of the online library that accompanied the publication of gary webb s dark alliance series and his followup reporting for the san jose mercury news from 199697 about the cias role in the crack cocaine epidemic in the 1980s. Approximately 300 people, crowded into the first united methodist church in eugene, oregon, listened with rapt attention as webb detailed his. The series was widely discredited by the government, the mainstream press, and the growing rightwing media. Major motion picture based on dark alliance and starring jeremy renner, kill the messenger, to be be released in fall 2014.
In the dark alliance, drawing from the newly declassified documents, undercover dea drug enforcement administration audio and videotapes that had never been publicly released, federal court testimony, and interviews, webb demonstrates how us government knowingly allowed massive amounts of drugs and money to change hands at the expense of communities. Within the this audiobook version of dark alliance, webb. Webbs research is impeccable names, dates, places, and dollar amounts gather and mount with every page, eventually. Gary webb speaks on cia connections to contra drug. This audiobook serves as both a complex memoir of the time of the contras and an indictment of the current state of americas press. In july 1995, san jose mercurynews reporter gary webb found the big one the blockbuster story every journalist secretly dreams aboutwithout even. Dark alliance author gary webb gave a fascinating talk on the evening of january 16, outlining the findings of his investigation of the cias connection to drug trafficking by the nicaraguan contras. Eighteen years after it was published, dark alliance, the san jose mercury newss bombshell investigation into links between the cocaine. Tribute to dark alliance and journalist gary webb, transcripts of a 1997 webb speech and. The cia, the contras, and the crack cocaine explosion by gary webb 2016, mp3 cd, unabridged at the best online prices at ebay. Browse gary webbs bestselling audiobooks and newest titles.
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The cia, the contras, and the crack cocaine explosion is a 1998 book by journalist gary webb. A simple phone call concerning an unexceptional pending drug trial turned into a massive conspiracy involving the nicaraguan contra rebels, l. Gary webb pushed his investigation even further in his book, dark alliance. Gary webb is the former san jose mercury news reporter whose 1996 dark alliance series on the socalled ciacrack cocaine connection created a firestorm of controversy and led to his resignation from the paper amid escalating attacks on his work by the mainstream media. Bob berggetty images the cia denied gary webb s reporting, while his fellow journalists nitpicked webb s faults while failing to follow up on his claims.
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The cia, the contras, and the crack cocaine explosion. The original series claimed that, in order to help raise funds for efforts against the nicaraguan sandinista government, the cia supported cocaine. In 1999, seven stories press published webb s dark alliance. A simple phone call concerning an unexceptional pending drug trial turned into a massiv. Webb is best known for his dark alliance series, which appeared in the mercury news in 1996. Gary webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. The cia, the contras, and the crack cocaine explosion 2 the irancontra connection. Author and investigative journalist nick schou published numerous articles on the controversy and was the only reporter to.
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