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

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

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Author: Gary Webb
Edition: 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: What is the CIA doing with OUR $30-Billion per Year?
Summary: 5 Stars

Answer: Not keeping an eye on who is threatening the United States with nuclear weapons (India, Pakistan). Instead, the CIA has been protecting its "assets;" drug smugglers who brought cocaine into America's backyards through Los Angeles street gangs; according to Gary Webb. Not all of the drug money was wasted, however. Some of it trickled down to the Contras ... Ronald Reagan's so-called Freedom Fighters. Read Dark Alliance and weep for America being torn apart by the CIA. By the way, Gary Webb's reward for exposing these crimes against Americans? His career as a journalist was destroyed. Moral: exercise your First Amendment rights by writing the unflattering truth about the CIA and lose your livlihood (if not your life).

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