Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (860 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00GSXMRIG |
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| Number of Pages | : | 408 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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All the Truth You Never Hear About How Crack Got Into This Country Karen B. Bazemore After Gary Webb, a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter finished his superb articles about the Reagan/Bush Administration's drug running and it was initially widely acclaimed he was marginalized at the San Jose Mercury News and finally quit.This was an earth shattering report at the time, The first full account of the "Dirty Wars" . Americans need to read this book. This book should be mandatory reading in schools. Webb's research was detailed and it provided enough evidence that should have imprisoned many of those responsible for allowing the CIA to work directly with the largest drug dealers on the planet. Oliver North has been exposed as the ringleader of one of the dirtiest chapters in American hi. "Brilliant and heroic work" according to James. Gary Webb is a truth seeker and American hero. As with anyone in the U.S. who works to uncover truth, he was brutally punished for his efforts. Webb is an expert researcher. His unrelenting persistence in search of the facts underlying the CIA/Contra/Reagan/cocaine connection reveals the hypocrisy and corruption driving U.S. government oper
Even more chilling, Webb quickly realized, was that the massive drug-dealing operation had the implicit approval - and occasional outright support - of the CIA, the very organization entrusted to prevent illegal drugs from being brought into the United States. and Bay Area crack cocaine dealers, and the Central Intelligence Agency. This audiobook serves as both a complex memoir of the time of the Contras and an indictment of the current state of America's press; Dark Alliance is as necessary and valuable as it is horrifying and grim.. Webb quit the paper in disgust in November 1997. 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. After the original series of articles ran in the Mercury-News in late 1996, both Webb and his paper were so severely criticized by political commentators, government officials, and other members of the press that his own newspaper decided it best not to sta