[back] Gary Webb
Gary Webb's Dark Alliance
Mercury News
series 1996
[back] Gary Webb
"For the better
part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and
Bloods Street Gangs of Los Angeles and funnelled millions in drug profits to a
Latin American guerilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, a
Mercury News investigation has found.
This drug network opened the first
pipeline between Colombia's cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los
Angeles, a city now known as the "crack" capital of the world. The cocaine that
flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America -- and provided the
cash and connections needed for L.A.'s gangs to buy automatic weapons.
It is one of the most bizarre
alliances in modern history: the union of a U.S. backed army attempting to
overthrow a revolutionary socialist government and the Uzi-toting "gangstas" of
Compton and South Central Los Angeles."--Gary Webb
From the introduction to the original Dark Alliance website, August,
1996
For an in depth record read Narco News
here
[1996 Oct 3] Affidavit shows CIA knew of contra drug ring
[1996 Aug 23] Drug king free, but black aide sits in jail
[1996 Aug 23] Cocaine sentences weighted against blacks
[1996 Aug 22] Cocaine pipeline financed rebels
[1996 Aug 22] Trio created mass market in U.S. for crack cocaine
[1996 Aug 22] Crack was born during 1974 in S.F. Bay Area
[1996 Aug 20] Flawed sentencing the main reason for race disparity
[1996 Aug 20] War on drugs has unequal impact on black Americans
[1996 Aug 19] Drug agent thought she was onto something big
[1996 Aug 19] Shadowy origins of 'crack' epidemic
[1996 Aug 18] Testimony links U.S. to drugs-guns trade
[1996 Aug 18] America's 'crack' plague has roots in Nicaragua war