Journalist Who Exposed CIA Cocaine Trafficking, Would Be 63 y/o, But He ‘Shot Himself’ TWICE in the Head

Joseph Miller
Sep 4, 2018 · 1 min read

The corporate media and the government worked together to silence Gary Webb after he helped expose their crimes to the American people.

For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to an arm of the contra guerrillas of Nicaragua run by the Central Intelligence Agency, the San Jose Mercury News has found.

On August 22nd, 1996 the San Jose Mercury News shocked the country with a series of articlesentitled ‘The Dark Alliance’ detailing the CIA’s connection to the crack epidemic that terrorized the nation in the 1980’s and destroyed countless lives in its wake.

After the article’s publication, the story’s author, award winning journalist Gary Webb, was initially hailed as a hero, before a massive smear campaign attacked his credibility and destroyed his career.

Gary Webb was born on August 31st, 1955 in Corona, California. He began his career in investigative journalism in 1978 as a local reporter for the Kentucky post.

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