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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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Introduction

This is our fifth part of what I am now calling Rack Week. CIA Week, I don't know. We'll see what titles we come up with. While Iran Contra was spinning up, I want to get to another thing that's happening. Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega had been a friend of the CIA's for a while. He and George H.W. Bush are good buddies. Ali North is also doing more shit of his own. And he has moved on from Iranian money to finding a new way to fund his Contra Buddies.

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