Oct 23, 2022
The CIA-Crack cocaine allegations also emerged in the mid 1990s with the Dark Alliance series published in the San Jose Mercury News: https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/9712/ch01p1.htm
The series author Gary Webb was smeared and discredited and later found dead in his apartment in an alleged suicide with two shots to the head. It was made into the film Kill the Messenger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0DAKBz2Sp0