CIA and the drugs in black community
But for those who don't know anything about this, the facts are these: in August 1996, the San Jose Mercury News initiated an extended series of articles by investigative reporter GARY WEBB called "Dark Alliance" that linked the CIA to the importation of crack cocaine into Los Angeles. The series unleashed a storm of protest, spearheaded by black radio stations and the congressional Black Caucus, with demands for official inquiries. The expose documented the CIA's involvement in opening up -
"… the first pipeline between Colombia's cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles, a city now known as the 'crack' capital of the world."
"The Mercury News series "touched a raw nerve in the (country) … Webb's tale brought the story home … To African-American communities, devastated by the scourge of crack and desperate for information and answers, Webb's reporting found ready constituencies.
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On December 10, 2004 former investigative reporter for the San Jose Mercury News Gary Webb - who had been on the CIA's "black list" ever since he broke the story of the agency's VILE involvement in flooding the poor black neighborhoods of L.A. with cocaine in the early 1980s - was found dead in his Sacramento area home, an apparent suicide according to the coroner. There was a gunshot wound through his head. No! - make that TWO (possibly three) gunshot wounds, apparently from his father's old .38 caliber revolver
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