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Gary Stephen Webb (August 31, 1955 – December 10, 2004) was an American investigative journalist . He began his career working for newspapers in Kentucky and Ohio, winning numerous awards, and building a reputation for investigative writing.
Dec 5, 2019 · In a three-part exposé, investigative journalist Gary Webb reported that a guerrilla army in Nicaragua had used crack cocaine sales in Los Angeles’ black neighborhoods to fund an attempted coup of Nicaragua’s socialist government in the 1980s — and that the CIA had purposefully funded it.
Oct 10, 2014 · Webb conducted a year-long investigation during which he discovered that a San Francisco-based drug ring, which had ties to a CIA-sponsored Nicaraguan contra group called the FDN, sold...
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Sep 25, 2014 · The CIA document reveals how the agency watched over the media backlash that discredited the journalist's investigation into the Contras and cocaine trade. The article also explores the legacy of Webb's series and the upcoming film "Kill the Messenger".
May 7, 2024 · Gary Webb was an American investigative journalist who wrote a three-part series for the San Jose Mercury News in 1996 on connections between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the U.S.-backed Contra army seeking to overthrow Nicaragua’s leftist government, and cocaine trafficking into the
- Scott Laderman
Jan 22, 2023 · Gary Webb was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who wrote a controversial series in 1996 alleging the CIA supported the Contra rebels who smuggled crack cocaine in the U.S. He died in 2004 under suspicious circumstances after facing criticism and backlash from the media and the CIA.
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Dec 13, 2004 · LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12 - Gary Webb, a reporter who won national attention with a series of articles, later discredited, linking the Central Intelligence Agency to the spread of crack cocaine in Los...
