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In July 1995, San Jose Mercury-News reporter Gary Webb found the Big One--the blockbuster story every journalist secretly dreams about--without even looking for it. A simple phone call concerning an unexceptional pending drug trial turned into a massive conspiracy involving the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, L.A. and Bay Area crack cocaine dealers, and the Central Intelligence Agency. For several years during the 1980s, Webb discovered, Contra elements shuttled thousands of tons of cocaine into the United States, with the profits going toward the funding of Contra rebels attempting a counterrevolution in their Nicaraguan homeland. Even more chilling, Webb quickly realized, was that the massive drug-dealing operation had the implicit approval--and occasional outright support--of the CIA, the very organization entrusted to prevent illegal drugs from being brought into the United States.
Within the pages of Dark Alliance, Webb produces a massive amount of evidence that suggests that such a scenario did take place, and more disturbing evidence that the powers that be that allowed such an alliance are still determined to ruthlessly guard their secrets. Webb's research is impeccable--names, dates, places, and dollar amounts gather and mount with every page, eventually building a towering wall of evidence in support of his theories. After the original series of articles ran in the Mercury-News in late 1996, both Webb and his paper were so severely criticized by political commentators, government officials, and other members of the press that his own newspaper decided it best not to stand behind the series, in effect apologizing for the assertions and disavowing his work. Webb quit the paper in disgust in November 1997. His book serves as both a complex memoir of the time of the Contras and an indictment of the current state of America's press; Dark Alliance is as necessary and valuable as it is horrifying and grim. --Tjames Madison -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Dark Alliance is a book that should be fiction, whose characters seem to come straight out of central casting: the international drug lord, Norwin Meneses; the Contra cocaine broker with an MBA in marketing, Danilo Blandon; and the illiterate teenager from the inner city who rises to become the king of crack, "Freeway" Ricky Ross. But unfortunately, these characters are real and their stories are true.
In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled "Dark Alliance," revealed that for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs and funneled millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras.
Now Gary Webb has pushed his investigation even further in his book, Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Drawing from recently declassified documents, undercover DEA audio and videotapes that have never been publicly released, federal court testimony, and interviews, Webb demonstrates how our government knowingly allowed massive amounts of drugs and money to change hands at the expense of our communities.
In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled "Dark Alliance," revealed that for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs and funneled millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras.
Now Gary Webb has pushed his investigation even further in his book, Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Drawing from recently declassified documents, undercover DEA audio and videotapes that have never been publicly released, federal court testimony, and interviews, Webb demonstrates how our government knowingly allowed massive amounts of drugs and money to change hands at the expense of our communities.
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Friday 9th of December 2004 Gary Webb was found dead in an apartment. He was one of the last of those journalists that gave America its fame and credibility as the beacon of an intrepid, free and dauntless press. Who is left? Seymour Hesh, the old knight? Greg Palast, the expat in the UK? Only two?!?
When I was a kid, the Watergate scandal broke loose and my parents were enthusiastic, how two young reporters from the Washington Post brought down a corrupt Nixon government. Wasn't that the spirit of true democracy that had been missing in Germany and from which she still did not have enough? Those were the Americans many Germans looked up to and whom they envied for having guts, "Zivilcourage", as we call it here. Not any more.
The US press (95 % embedded) cooperatively engaged in repudiating this book instead of taking it as a starting point for own investigative research. The Washington Post, New York Times and L.A.Times took sides for the CIA and against Webb. Coping with the own government's past, or "Vergangenheitsbewältigung", does not seem to interest the US mainstream press any more. Right or wrong, my checkbook, ehm, country. I doubt you will find any European who would agree with the gossip about a liberal media conspiracy in the US. The US simply hasn't got any nationwide liberal media left! They acted towards Webb like they were saying: "We do not allow any scoop in the US that we did not produce ourselves, and, since we defend our government and secret services, we will ridicule you collectively." Shall those papers rott in peace.
Webb's book is not sensationalist, sometimes it is even a bit tedious. Webb worked himself to death to record the facts and cohesions as accurate as possible, not to make a quick buck, and you can tell it from the book. But if you do not expect complicated coherences to read like Readers Digest, this is one of the most important books of the last decade. The media's reaction seems to have damaged his faith more than he was willing to acknowledge, but contrary to the spin of the New York Times and others, this book establishes without doubt:
When I was a kid, the Watergate scandal broke loose and my parents were enthusiastic, how two young reporters from the Washington Post brought down a corrupt Nixon government. Wasn't that the spirit of true democracy that had been missing in Germany and from which she still did not have enough? Those were the Americans many Germans looked up to and whom they envied for having guts, "Zivilcourage", as we call it here. Not any more.
The US press (95 % embedded) cooperatively engaged in repudiating this book instead of taking it as a starting point for own investigative research. The Washington Post, New York Times and L.A.Times took sides for the CIA and against Webb. Coping with the own government's past, or "Vergangenheitsbewältigung", does not seem to interest the US mainstream press any more. Right or wrong, my checkbook, ehm, country. I doubt you will find any European who would agree with the gossip about a liberal media conspiracy in the US. The US simply hasn't got any nationwide liberal media left! They acted towards Webb like they were saying: "We do not allow any scoop in the US that we did not produce ourselves, and, since we defend our government and secret services, we will ridicule you collectively." Shall those papers rott in peace.
Webb's book is not sensationalist, sometimes it is even a bit tedious. Webb worked himself to death to record the facts and cohesions as accurate as possible, not to make a quick buck, and you can tell it from the book. But if you do not expect complicated coherences to read like Readers Digest, this is one of the most important books of the last decade. The media's reaction seems to have damaged his faith more than he was willing to acknowledge, but contrary to the spin of the New York Times and others, this book establishes without doubt:
The CIA knew that its human assets who aided the Nicaraguan contras were dealing with drugs, and that their assets flew huge amounts of drugs INTO THE US.
For strange reasons this was not a matter of concern for the Agency. Webb does never say that the CIA deliberately created the crack epidemic to harm the black populace, as the mainstream press and enraged black activists have imputed Webb to have claimed.
But isn't it disquieting enough that ones own government agency cooperates with drug dealers to topple the government of a tiny foreign state and accept large drug transfers into ones own country as a "collateral damage"? If that is not worth reporting and getting the facts straight, I don't know what is. The US press totally failed here.
I am shure that a Hollywood movie will one day immortalise Garry Webb.
Until then every student of journalism, political science and contemporary history should read this book to appraise his achievements and the immense amount of work that sometimes is required to get closer to a truth, nobody wants to hear about. But they should also take to heart that one should not expect too much applause when one stands in the crowd, clearly sees that the emperor is naked and even has the audacity to say so. Be prepared to cope with the loneliness of a long distance runner.
3 points for style, 7 points for substance, divided by 2 = 5 points.
May he rest in peace, he will not be forgotten.
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Gary Webb has uncovered the biggest story of the past twenty years. It covers three Presidential adminstrations and uncovers the corruption of our government and the few officials who abuse the power entrusted with them. It also shows how bad modern media has gotten in its responsibility to do true "journalism." Gary Webb has gathered "hard" edvidence, organized it and made sense of lengthy and complex conspiracy of our and central american governments plan to fund a private war through drugs sales. The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The New York Times denounced his findings without a shred of contrary evidence or with just statements from the CIA saying it was a lie and they all just took the CIA's statement as fact. The major news media reporters have just become stenographers for the big, corrupt government in Washington and they will swallow anything that is spoon fed to them. The biggest loser in all of this is the American public, the people who have become addicted to drugs and the truth. But thanks to Gary Webb the truth wasn't lost but placed in a forum where the WHOLE story could be told, "Dark Alliance."
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Last of the species
It's a little muddled in parts. The writing, though at times vivid, turns into thesis work, densely written, overly annotated and much is often over-explained. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. März 2000 von A. F. Lyons
A great epilogue to an even greater book!
Dark Alliance, although riddled with documented evidence--maybe too riddled--of the CIA's complicity in the drug trade, is merely an aside to the more compelling and far more... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
An addictive,eye-opening read for the sheltered mainstream!
Gary Webb deserves whatever rewards come to him after completing his long committed journey into the dark world of international politics and giving it up to the reading public. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 6. Dezember 1998 veröffentlicht
Engrossing, Exhaustive, Exasperating, Exhausting
The even BIGGER scandal brought to the fore by this book is that the Clinton/Lewinsky "scandal" is treated more seriouly than this; after all, when we elected Clinton, we... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. November 1998 von calipygian@mindspring.com
My 1998 Xmas Present to the People I Love
I have been reading books that might explain some of the behavior of the federal enforcement bureaucracies over the last decade. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. Oktober 1998 veröffentlicht
Honest journalists do exist
Gary Webb is the best kind of journalist - the kind prepared to put his career on the line to uncover the truth. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. Oktober 1998 veröffentlicht
Pleased that this shameful story is PROVEN this time
Terrific writing.Dates, times, people, facts that no one has been able to disprove.Am very uneasy to think such a coverup,created by persons in such high places,could be ignored... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. Oktober 1998 veröffentlicht
Disturbing "coincidences"
Though Webb never comes right out and proves a direct link to drug running Contra supporters and the CIA the overwheming "coincidences" and collaborations certainly... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 25. September 1998 veröffentlicht
CIA: Counter Interdiction of Agencies (DEA,FBI)
Excellent book! The question remains, why is the CIA still in Mexico even though Central America is at peace? Ahhh yes the drug money to fund other operations! Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 23. August 1998 veröffentlicht
Poor Gary, doesn't UNDERSTAND, wants his peers to see facts.
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Review by Conspiracy Nation
Gary Webb, author of *Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, And The Crack Cocaine Explosion*, was the journalist with the San Jose Mercury News... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 22. August 1998 veröffentlicht
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