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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 New Contra Drug Allegation

Gary Webb was right. The claim that he made was that the CIA deliberately enabled the cocaine trade to fund the contrast. That was absolutely true. Now he didn't have all of the information that we have in order to prove it. And that is a flaw in the article. All of the journalism quote unquote journalism that was done to attack Webb's work was deeply flawed itself as the Columbia journalism review makes clear.

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