Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

All the Truth You Never Hear About How Crack Got Into This Country Karen B. Bazemore After Gary Webb, a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter finished his superb articles about the Reagan/Bush Administration's drug running and it was initially widely acclaimed he was marginalized at the San Jose Mercury News and finally quit.This was an earth shattering report at the time, The first full account of the "Dirty Wars" in Central America, conducted by Reagan/Bush through Oliver North, using almost every branch of the U.S. government as accomplices in running cocaine into South Central L.A. initially and then spreading it across the country.Even . Gary S. King said Americans need to read this book.. This book should be mandatory reading in schools. Webb's research was detailed and it provided enough evidence that should have imprisoned many of those responsible for allowing the CIA to work directly with the largest drug dealers on the planet. Oliver North has been exposed as the ringleader of one of the dirtiest chapters in American history. This book is a must read!. Brilliant and heroic work James Gary Webb is a truth seeker and American hero. As with anyone in the U.S. who works to uncover truth, he was brutally punished for his efforts. Webb is an expert researcher. His unrelenting persistence in search of the facts underlying the CIA/Contra/Reagan/cocaine connection reveals the hypocrisy and corruption driving U.S. government operations. Dark Alliance reads like an action thriller. Webb is a superb story teller.

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. A simple phone call concerning an unexceptional pending drug trial turned into a massive conspiracy involving the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, L.A. 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. This audiobook serves as both a complex memoir of the time of the Contras and an indictment of the current state of America's p