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Cracktoberfest Part Five: How the CIA and the L.A. Times Killed Gary Webb

Behind the Bastards

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The CIA's Fat Out of the Fire

The first earth's shattering piece of investigative journalism in the US that came from something that wasn't a major paper of record. The Los Angeles Times was especially aggressive, scooped in its own backyard. Within two weeks of the publication of dark alliance, the LA Times devoted more words to dismantling its competitors breakout hit than comprised the series itself.

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