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The CIA and Crack Cocaine Story: Fact or Fiction? |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ESSAYS |
| Author: Abraham H. Miller |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1998 |
| Size: 5,275 Words, 35,460 Characters |
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Under the headline "America's Crack Plague Has Roots in Nicaragua War," followed by the subhead "Colombia--San Francisco Bay Area Drug Pipeline Helped Finance CIA-Backed Contras," Mercury News reporter Gary Webb launched a salvo against the CIA that had the potential to be more damaging than any accusation it had ever faced. Webb's story characterized a CIA that for the better part of a decade had permitted Contra drug traffickers to create a market for crack cocaine in African-American neighborhoods in order to fund a guerrilla war in the Nicaraguan jungles.vbcrlf Webb described a Contra-run drug operation out of the San Francisco Bay area that was moving tons of drugs into the hands of the Cripps and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and fu...
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...ms. Rep. Maxine Waters also continues to cling publicly to the basic ingredients of the story.vbcrlf For his part, Webb has announced that he has four more pieces on the CIA, the Contras, and the crack epidemic that will substantiate his original plot. Executive Editor Ceppos, however, has not yet found anything worthy of bringing out in print. vbcrlf
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