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	Gary Webb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gary Webb (August 31, 1955 – December 10, 2004) was a controversial American investigative journalist, best known for his 1996 "Dark Alliance" investigative report series, written for the San Jose Mercury News.
		Webb never asserted that the CIA directly aided drug dealers to raise money for the Contras, but he did imply that the CIA were aware of the transactions (Webb's 1999 book, Dark Alliance, substantiated these allegations with copious references).
		Webb was hired by the Sacramento News and Review, after being laid off in 2003 with the rest of the former Speaker's staff as part of a house-cleaning when the new House speaker took over.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gary_Webb (2694 words)

	R.I.P. Gary Webb -- Unembedded Reporter
		Gary Webb, a courageous investigative journalist who was the target of one of the most ferocious media attacks on any reporter in recent history, was found dead Friday after an apparent suicide.
		Webb reported that U.S. law enforcement agents complained that the CIA had squelched drug probes of Blandon and his partner Norwin Meneses in the name of "national security." Blandon's drugs flowed into L.A. and elsewhere thanks to the legendary "Freeway" Ricky Donnell Ross, a supplier of crack to the Crips and Bloods gangs.
		While Webb's series could be faulted for some overstatement in presenting its powerful new evidence (a controversial graphic on the Mercury News website superimposed a person smoking crack over the CIA seal), the fresh documentation mightily moved forward the CIA-Contra-cocaine story that national media had been trying to bury for years.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/1213-31.htm (1153 words)

	News - Obituary: Gary Webb, prize-winning investigative reporter - sacbee.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Gary Webb, a prize-winning investigative journalist whose star-crossed career was capped with a controversial newspaper series linking the CIA to the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles, died Friday of self-inflicted gunshot wounds, officials said.
		Webb, who was based in the newspaper's Sacramento bureau, authored a three-part investigative series in 1996 that linked the CIA to Nicaraguan Contras seeking to overthrow the Sandin ista government and to drug sales of crack cocaine flooding south-central Los Angeles in the 1980s.
		Webb's reporting and congressional leaders called for investigations, the CIA director at the time visited Los Angeles for an unprecedented town hall meeting with area residents at which he denied the allegations and was met with loud jeers.
	www.sacbee.com /content/news/story/11744167p-12630255c.html (641 words)

	Evidence Begins To Indicate Gary Webb Was Murdered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Credible sources who were close to Gary Webb have stated that he was receiving death threats, being regularly followed, and that he was concerned about strange individuals who were seen on multiple occasions breaking into and leaving his house before his apparent 'suicide' on Friday morning.
		Gary told Ricky that he had seen men scaling down the pipes outside his home and that they were obviously not burglars but 'government people'.
		Now, Gary Webb, at one point, pointed to the assets that were heavily involved and I myself pointed to actually the CIA officials who were actually participating in loading and unloading and refueling the planes….
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/december2004/141204webbmurdered.htm (3712 words)

	Did the Israelis pay a visit to Webb
		Gary Webb, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who wrote a series of stories linking the CIA to crack cocaine trafficking in Los Angeles, is dead at age 49.
		Webb was found Friday morning at his home in Sacramento County, dead of an apparent suicide (shot twice in the head).
		Webb was working on a new book that exposed the real masters of the drug trade, when two Mossad agents paid him a visit.
	judicial-inc.biz /Gary_webb.htm (392 words)

	Consortiumnews.com
		On Friday, Dec. 10, Gary Webb, 49, was found dead of an apparent suicide, a gunshot wound to the head.
		So when Gary Webb revived the contra-cocaine issue in August 1996 with a 20,000-word three-part series entitled “Dark Alliance,” editors at major newspapers already had a powerful self-interest to slap down a story that they had disparaged for the past decade.
		Nevertheless, the pillorying of Gary Webb was on, in earnest.
	www.consortiumnews.com /2004/121304.html (2893 words)

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		Gary Webb had a conversation with Constitutional journalist Jon Roland who warned Webb that the CIA might contrive to "suicide" him and Webb indicated that if he died it would not be suicide.
		Gary was a friend and one of the finest investigative journalist I have ever witnessed.
		Gary Webb was a private man who was open to all people regardless of color, faith or religion.
	www.newsmakingnews.com /vm,garywebb,12,14,04.htm (1968 words)

	Gary Webb, Word Warrior -- In These Times
		Webb’s big story was a three-part series arguing that the CIA was complicit with right-wing Nicaraguan Contras as they sold the cocaine that accelerated the crack-cocaine epidemic.
		Webb’s controversial series, which appeared in the San Jose Mercury News during August 1996, detailed how the Contras sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs and used the profits to finance their terrorist campaign against Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista government.
		Webb’s series seemed to corroborate all of this and he was hailed as a hero by many in the fl community.
	www.inthesetimes.com /site/main/article/1774 (1384 words)

	Esquire:Feature Story:Gary Webb, 1955 - 2004
		Gary was all you could ask for in a journalist: tough, unafraid, and honest as the day is long.
		Rather than extending Webb's story by doing their own reporting, major newspapers instead turned on him and were more determined, it seemed, to attempt to undermine and discredit Webb's reporting.
		Webb's piece, entitled "Driving While Black," was followed a year later by a New York Times story on Operation Pipeline in which the Times took credit for the scoop and did not mention that it was Gary Webb who had first broken the story.
	www.esquire.com /features/articles/2004/041217_mfe_webb_1.html (1081 words)

	marccooper: Gary Webb Remembered
		Gary Webb, the enterprising investigative journalist who, in 1996, wrote the “Dark Alliance” series for the San Jose Mercury News alleging that links between the CIA and the Nicaraguan contra army helped fuel the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles, has committed suicide.
		Webb was eviscerated for not providing proof that "the CIA was dealing drugs" which, as I recall, was never his actual claim.
		Gary was an extremely good guest who impressed everyone with the detail and balance of his answers and his Pulizer-winning investigative work for the SJMN and in his book Dark Alliance.
	marccooper.typepad.com /marccooper/2004/12/gary_webb_remem.html (3471 words)

	Gary Webb
		Gary Webb, the Pulitzer prize-winning reporter who broke the story of the CIA’s involvement in the importation of cocaine into the U.S., died Friday, reportedly from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head.
		Webb found evidence that the CIA had direct contact with the smugglers, knew the proceeds were going to fund the murderous Contras, and tried to cover it up when other law enforcement agencies began investigating.
		Webb reported that U.S. law enforcement agents complained that the CIA had squelched drug probes of Blandon and his partner Norwin Meneses in the name of “national security.” Blandon’s drugs flowed into L.A. and elsewhere thanks to the legendary “Freeway” Ricky Donnell Ross, a supplier of crack to the Crips and Bloods gangs.
	www.gnn.tv /articles/article.php?id=993 (1113 words)

	SAYING GOODBYE TO A GIANT
		Gary Webb was a giant in a village of midgets.
		The fact that Gary had used a.38 was not disclosed until a December 14th Coroner's statement and a follow-up story from the Sacramento Bee were necessitated by the hysterical rumor mongering an unbridled publishing coming from the activist-progressive community.
		Gary was eulogized by his brother Kurt, his ex-wife Susan, his former sister-in-law Diana, his sons Ian and Eric, and his daughter, Christina.
	www.fromthewilderness.com /free/ww3/122004_goodbye_giant.shtml (4529 words)

	AlterNet: MediaCulture: Gary Webb R.I.P.
		Gary Webb R.I.P. By Robert Parry, Consortium News.
		In 1996, journalist Gary Webb wrote a series of articles that forced a long-overdue investigation of a very dark chapter of recent U.S. foreign policy – the Reagan-Bush administration’s protection of cocaine traffickers who operated under the cover of the Nicaraguan contra war in the 1980s.
		On Friday, Dec. 10, Gary Webb, 49, died of an apparent suicide, a gunshot wound to the head.
	www.alternet.org /mediaculture/20742 (3130 words)

	American Journalism Review
		Webb was born into a conservative Catholic military family in 1955 in Corona, California, moving from base to base during his childhood with his housewife mother, his younger brother and his father, a former Marine frogman.
		Webb's father retired from the Marines when Webb was in junior high, found a job as a security guard, and the family settled into a working-class neighborhood in Indianapolis.
		Webb moved his wife and two young children to a suburb and continued a tradition he had started in Cleveland, restoring their small house with the help of how-to books, installing wainscoting and custom tile, new cabinets and gardens, while putting in overtime at the paper.
	www.ajr.org /Article.asp?id=3874 (7430 words)

	The NarcoSphere \|\| Gary Webb, ¡Presente!
		Gary’s death is a wake-up call to me, a call to action, a reminder of basic things: that life is short and fragile, the stakes are high, and words are pointed and dangerous weapons, when wielded with skill.
		Gary was always willing to impart his wisdom on ignorant rookies like myself and in that same spirit, maybe the best way to say goodbye to him is to pass on that wisdom to other aspiring reporters.
		Gary siempre estaba dispuesto a impartir su magia sobre novatos ignorantes como yo y, con ese mismo espíritu, tal vez la mejor manera de decirle adiós es pasar la magia a otros aspirantes a reportero.
	narcosphere.narconews.com /story/2004/12/12/22383/010#10 (13665 words)

	The Dark Allience - Gary Webb / SJMN Series
		Webb spoke eloquently, with the ease and confidence of an investigator who has spent many long hours researching his subject, and many more hours sharing this information with the public.
		Gary Webb: It's a new burst of honesty from the new CIA.
		Gary Webb: Well, the question was, how can I say on one hand it was a chain reaction, and on the other hand say the drug war was set up deliberately to erode our rights.
	www.mega.nu:8080 /ampp/webb.html (21973 words)

	The NarcoSphere \|\| Gary Webb: Do What He Did
		Gary is not the first, nor, I fear, the last, friend and colleague to apparently choose that route.
		Gary himsef did the math in his appeal for the old Narco News legal defense fund, published by Counterpunch in 2001 March.
		The apparent December suicide of Gary Webb, the journalist responsible for the "Dark Alliance" sensation in the San Jose Mercury News in 1996, sparked at least a brief media recollection of the contra-cocaine claims of the Reagan era.
	narcosphere.narconews.com /story/2004/12/15/184725/08 (10042 words)

	In Memoriam: Gary Webb
		In 1996, journalist Gary Webb wrote a series of articles that forced a long-overdue investigation of a very dark chapter of recent U.S. foreign policy -- the Reagan-Bush administration's protection of cocaine traffickers who operated under the cover of the Nicaraguan contra war in the 1980s.
		Two years ago Gary Webb touched off a national controversy with his news stories linking the CIA and the Nicaraguan Contras to the rise of the crack epidemic in Los Angeles and elsewhere.
		Among the storm of issues raised by Webb's original series, one of the most hotly contested was the importance of Blandon, Ross and the Crips to the crack epidemic that in 1986 burst into public awareness.
	socrates.berkeley.edu /~pdscott/webb.html (2808 words)

	Narco News Solidarity Letter from Gary Webb
		Gary Webb was an investigative reporter for 19 years, focusing on government and private sector corruption and winning more than 30 journalism awards.
		And in 1980 Webb won an Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Award for a series that he co-authored at the Kentucky Post on organized crime in the coal industry.
		Months later, Webb was effectively forced out of his job after the San Jose Mercury News retracted their support for his story.
	www.narconews.com /webbletter.html (1726 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Investigative Reporter Gary Webb Who Linked CIA to Crack Sales Found Dead of Apparent Suicide
		Webb was found Friday morning at his home in Sacramento County, dead of an apparent suicide.
		Gary Webb's 1996 series in the San Jose Mercury News 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.
		Gary Webb, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the San Jose Mercury News date of an apparent suicide.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=04/12/13/1457240 (1992 words)

	Alexander Cockburn: Why They Hated Gary Webb
		A prime no-no is to say that the US government has used assassination down the years as an instrument of national policy; also that the CIA's complicity with drug dealing criminal gangs stretches from the Afghanistan of today back to the year the Agency was founded in 1947.
		That last one is the line Webb stepped over.He paid for his presumption by undergoing one of the unfairest batterings in the history of the US press, as the chapter from Whiteout we ran on our site yesterday narrates.
		There were similar fountains of outrage in 1996 that the CIA hadn't been given enough space in Webb's series to solemnly swear that never a gram of cocaine had passed under its nose but that it had been seized and turned over to the DEA or US Customs.
	www.counterpunch.com /cockburn12182004.html (2218 words)

	Was Gary Webb Murdered?
		Brown and Castillo discuss the death of Gary Webb and the evidence for murder.
		Related article: Evidence Begins To Indicate Gary Webb Was Murdered
		Play the audio directly in Real Player or download the video using the following link -
	www.prisonplanet.tv /audio/141204webbmurdered.htm (87 words)

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