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New
Book:
Dark
Alliance
by
Gary
Webb
tells
the
whole
CIA-Crack
Story
5/22/98
In August 1996, the San Jose Mercury News published a series of articles by reporter Gary Webb, titled "Dark Alliance", discussing evidence of possible connections between the CIA, the Nicaraguan Contras, and cocaine trafficking rings operating between Central America and inner-city Los Angeles. Webb, who is no longer with the Mercury, has written a book with the same name, detailing the rest of the information that the Mercury, under pressure, declined to publish. Though the CIA has denied engaging in drug trafficking, earlier this year they acknowledged that they did work with drug traffickers and did not report them to the DEA or other law enforcement agencies.
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Issue #43, 5/22/98
"Operation Casablanca:" Feds' Big Money Laundering Bust Amounts to Chump Change | 40 Events Scheduled for Global Days against the Drug War | Another Bad Raid, Another Lawsuit for the City of New York | Reverend Calvin Butts Calls Rudolph Giuliani Racist | Medical Marijuana Summit Scheduled in California | House Amendment to Higher Education Bill Bars Marijuana Smokers from Receiving Student Aid | Bolivian Anti-Drug Squadron Eats Disabled Peasant's Fruit Crop, Leaving Her without Income | Quote of the Week: Milton Friedman on Colombia | Media Alert: Brandweek Takes on the Partnership | Link of the Week: Oregonians for Medical Rights | New Book: Dark Alliance by Gary Webb tells the whole CIA-Crack Story | Job Announcement: DPF Hiring an Assistant Communications Director | Editorial: Bad raids
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