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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.
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- 1998
Jun 9, 1998 · Gary Webb's 'Dark Alliance' is an account of the dealings behind what is usually remembered as the Iran-Contra Affair, one aspect of Reagan's efforts to surreptitiously and illegally support right-wing militaries in Central America.
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Oct 22, 2019 · Gary Webb, a journalist for the San Jose Mercury News, exposed the link between the CIA and a drug network that fueled the crack epidemic in Los Angeles in the 1980s. His series of articles, published in 1996, was a groundbreaking expose that faced backlash and controversy.
By GARY WEBB Seven Stories. Read the Review. 1 "A pretty secret kind of thing" In July 1979, as his enemies massed in the hills and suburbs of his doomed capital, the dictator huddled in his...
Oct 10, 2014 · It started when Webb wrote a series of three articles for the San Jose Mercury News in 1996 dubbed “Dark Alliance.” In his report, Webb — who had won a Pulitzer in 1989 for a different...
- Eliana Dockterman
Jan 10, 2018 · "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"--
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Webb is best known for his "Dark Alliance" series, which appeared in The Mercury News in 1996. The series examined the origins of the crack cocaine trade in Los Angeles and claimed that members of the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua had played a major role in creating the trade, using cocaine profits to finance their fight against the ...
