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Gary Stephen Webb (August 31, 1955 – December 10, 2004) was an American investigative journalist . He began his career working for newspapers in Kentucky and Ohio, winning numerous awards, and building a reputation for investigative writing. Hired by the San Jose Mercury News, Webb contributed to the paper's Pulitzer Prize -winning coverage ...
Oct 10, 2014 · October 10, 2014 12:00 PM EDT. I n a scene from the new movie Kill the Messenger, investigative reporter Gary Webb (played by Jeremy Renner) says that he doesn’t believe in conspiracy theories ...
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Dec 5, 2019 · Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" series boldly claimed the CIA knew about a U.S. drug trafficking scheme that ravaged the country's inner cities to fund Nicaragua's Contra rebels. Years later, he shot himself in the head. In a three-part exposé, investigative journalist Gary Webb reported that a guerrilla army in Nicaragua had used crack cocaine ...
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May 7, 2024 · Gary Webb (born August 31, 1955, Corona, California, U.S.—died December 10, 2004, Carmichael, California) was an American investigative journalist who wrote a three-part series for the San Jose Mercury News in 1996 on connections between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the U.S.-backed Contra army seeking to overthrow Nicaragua’s leftist government, and cocaine trafficking into the ...
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Sep 25, 2014 · How the CIA Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb. Support Us. Ryan Devereaux. September 25 2014, 2:20 p.m. Eighteen years after it was published, “Dark Alliance,” the San Jose Mercury ...
Dec 13, 2004 · David Corn. Gary Webb is dead. He was the journalist who wrote a famous–or infamous–1996 series for the San Jose Mercury News that maintained a CIA-supported drug ring based in Los Angeles had ...
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Jan 22, 2023 · By William Kennedy / Jan. 22, 2023 12:00 pm EST. In 2004, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb was found dead from an apparent suicide, as Democracy Now! reports. At that time, Webb (pictured) was best known for the controversial three-part CIA 1996 expose he wrote the San Jose Mercury News called "Dark Alliance: The Story Behind the ...
