Dark Alliance: Movie Tie-In Edition: The CIA, the Contras, and

Dark Alliance: Movie Tie-In Edition: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

Major Motion Picture based on Dark Alliance and starring Jeremy Renner, "Kill the Messenger," to be be released in Fall 2014

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 â€œDark Alliance,â€ 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.

Gary Webb pushed his investigation even further in his book, Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Drawing from then newly declassified documents, undercover DEA audio and videotapes that had 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.

Webbâ€™s own stranger-than-fiction experience is also woven into the book. His excoriation by the mediaâ€”not because of any wrongdoing on his part, but by an insidious process of innuendo and suggestion that in effect blamed Webb for the implications of the storyâ€”had been all but predicted. Webb was warned off doing a CIA expose by a former Associated Press journalist who lost his job when, years before, he had stumbled onto the germ of the â€œDark Allianceâ€ story. And though Internal investigations by both the CIA and the Justice Department eventually vindicated Webb, he had by then been pushed out of the Mercury News and gone to work for the California State Legislature Task Force on Government Oversight. He died in 2004.
Country USA
Brand Seven Stories Press
Manufacturer Seven Stories Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white plates
Color Brown
ReleaseDate 2014-09-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781609806217

Country	USA
Brand	Seven Stories Press
Manufacturer	Seven Stories Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white plates
Color	Brown
ReleaseDate	2014-09-30
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781609806217

Dark Alliance: Movie Tie-In Edition: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

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