Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
by Gary Webb
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Author: Gary WebbEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-07-01
ISBN: 1888363932
Number of pages: 608
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
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Book Review: Ollie North...National joke and disgrace
Summary: 5 Stars
Suffice it to say if this book wasn't on the mark Gary Webb wouldn't have been ostracized in his own profession and had to look over his shoulder for spooks at every turn. Believe what you want about your own government but know this - anytime one of these bought and paid for talking heads on the tube or in print wants to debunk a story uncovering their heinous acts and all the sordid little details they all trot out these 2 words "Conspiracy theory" Con being the operative word here. One mention of a conspiracy theory and suddenly everything associated with it is automatically BS. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convicing the world he didn't exist.
As for Ollie North...there is not one thing about him that conjures to mind the word patriotic. About the only thing patriotic about about Ollie, Ronnie and the rest of the gang that couldn't shoot straight are their job titles and letterheads.
Summary of Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
Based on a series of explosive articles written for the "San Jose Mercury News", this book uncovers the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, revealing connections between a Bay Area drug ring, an L.A. street gang, and CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras. of photos.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. A simple phone call concerning an unexceptional pending drug trial turned into a massive conspiracy involving the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, L.A. and Bay Area crack cocaine dealers, and the Central Intelligence Agency. For several years during the 1980s, Webb discovered, Contra elements shuttled thousands of tons of cocaine into the United States, with the profits going toward the funding of Contra rebels attempting a counterrevolution in their Nicaraguan homeland. 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.
Within the pages of Dark Alliance, Webb produces a massive amount of evidence that suggests that such a scenario did take place, and more disturbing evidence that the powers that be that allowed such an alliance are still determined to ruthlessly guard their secrets. Webb's research is impeccable--names, dates, places, and dollar amounts gather and mount with every page, eventually building a towering wall of evidence in support of his theories. 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 stand behind the series, in effect apologizing for the assertions and disavowing his work. Webb quit the paper in disgust in November 1997. His book 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. --Tjames Madison
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