#Declassified cia papers crack series
#Declassified cia papers crack crack

#Declassified cia papers crack series

Representative Maxine Waters later said in 'George' magazine, 'I was shocked by the level of corruption and deceit and the way the intelligence agencies have knowledge of big-time drug dealing.' The allegations in Webb's story blazed over the Internet and the 'Mercury News'' website on the series was deluged with hits-over a million in one day. Then-chief of the CIA, John Deutsch, made an unprecedented attempt at crisis control by going to South Central L.A. As a result, public demonstrations erupted in L.A., Washington D.C., and New York. government's relationship with the cocaine ring. Within days of publication, both of California's senators made formal requests for investigations of the U.S. Webb's original article spurred an immediate outcry.

#Declassified cia papers crack crack

Gary Webb pushed his investigation even further in his book, 'Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.' Drawing from then newly declassified documents, undercover DEA audio and videotapes that had never been publicly released, federal court testimony, and interviews, Webb demonstrates how our government knowingly allowed massive amounts of drugs and money to change hands at the expense of our communities. 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 millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras. In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the 'San Jose Mercury News' reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles.

But unfortunately, these characters are real and their stories are true. 'Major Motion Picture based on Dark Alliance and starring Jeremy Renner, 'Kill the Messenger,' to be be released in Fall 2014 Winner of the 1999 PEN/Oakland Censorship Award Winner of the 1999 Firecracker Alternative Bookseller (FAB) Award, Politics category Finalist for the 1999 Bay Area Book Reviewers Awards Dark Alliance' is a book that should be fiction, whose characters seem to come straight out of central casting: the international drug lord, Norwin Meneses the Contra cocaine broker with an MBA in marketing, Danilo Blandon and the illiterate teenager from the inner city who rises to become the king of crack, 'Freeway' Ricky Ross.