Dark Alliance
The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
Published on 1. March 2015
580 pages
978-1-908699-75-6 (ISBN)
Description
The characters seem to come straight out of central casting: the international drug lord, Norwin Meneses; the Contra cocaine broker with a marketing MBA, Danilo Blandon; and the illiterate teenager who grows up to become the king of crack, Freeway Ricky Ross. Yet these people are real and their stories are true. In Dark Alliance, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb recounts how tons of cocaine were sold to the poor of Los Angeles, and the proceeds then channelled to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras. Meanwhile the Reagan government waged a strident, hypocritical war against drugs . This is a masterpiece of reportage whose tale of CIA wrongdoing is as relevant as ever.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Foreword to the 2014 Edition: The Tragedy of Gary Webb
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Author's Note
- PART ONE
- Prologue: "It was like they didn't want to know"
- 1: "A pretty secret kind of thing"
- 2: "We were the first"
- 3: "The brotherhood of military minds"
- 4: "I never sent cash"
- 5: "God, Fatherland and Freedom"
- 6: "They were doing their patriotic duty"
- 7: "Something happened to Ivan"
- 8: "A million hits is not enough"
- 9: "He would have had me by the tail"
- 10: "Teach a man craft and he's liable to practice it"
- 11: "They were looking in the other direction"
- 12: "This guy talks to God"
- 13: "The wrong kind of friends"
- 14: "It's bigger than I can handle"
- 15: "This thing is a tidal wave"
- 16: "It's a burn"
- 17: "We're going to blow your fucking head off"
- 18: "We bust our ass and the government's involved"
- 19: "He reports to people reporting to Bush"
- 20: "It is a sensitive matter"
- 21: "I could go anywhere in the world and sell dope"
- 22: "They can't touch us"
- 23: "He had the backing of a superpower"
- 24: "They're gonna forget I was drug dealer"
- PART TWO
- 25: "Things are moving all around us"
- 26: "That matter, if true, would be classified"
- 27: "A very difficult decision"
- Epilogue: "The damage that has been done"
- Notes on Sources
- Cast of Characters
- Glossary of Organizations and Locations
- Index
- A, B, C
- D, E, F
- G, H, I
- J, K, L
- M, N, O
- P, Q, R
- S, T, U
- V, W, X
- Y, Z
- Plates
- About the Author
- Copyright
