I will never apologize for the United States. I don’t care what the facts are.

— Then Vice President George H.W. Bush, after a US missile cruiser
shot down an Iranian civilian jet in 1988, killing 290 innocents

Sunday, September 15, 2002

Webb, Gary: Dark Alliance

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Webb, Gary (1998) Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. New York, Seven Stories Press, 548 pp.
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Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter Gary Webb stumbles across a story that is absolutely unbelievable — in their war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, the CIA supported certain individuals who were heavily involved in the cocaine trade. And those individuals were largely responsible for setting off the crack cocaine explosion in the 1980s. This book is derived from Webb’s award-winning Dark Alliance series for the San Jose Mercury News. The web series was among the first to illustrate the power of this new internet medium. with hyperlinks to original documents and source material that went far beyond anything that could be done in print. Alas, the pressure on Webb eventually became so great that his editors transferred him to the traffic bureau in Cupertino. In disgust, he quit. As he later remarked:

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