14) CIA Drug Ring In Los Angeles
For years, theories of the government secretly distributing crack cocaine in the ghettos of America during the 1980’s have persisted. Those who suspected this were the ones accused of being on drugs. Only after Gary Webb, Michael Ruppert, and Terry Reed revealed that the CIA had been covertly working with drug smugglers from Nicaragua to sell dangerous drugs on the streets of Los Aneles were the “conspiracy theorists” proven right.
Gary Webb’s book Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion outlines how CIA-backed Contras smuggled cocaine into the U.S. and then distributed crack to Los Angeles gangs, pocketing the profits. The CIA directly aided the drug dealers to raise money for the Contras. Reportedly, the money obtained from the illegal trade was used for the Contas in Nicaragua. And you can bet that the CIA was well aware of what had been happening the whole time.
Webb wrote in 1996 San Jose Mercury News article:
“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.”
Something worth noting: On December 10, 2004, Webb committed suicide under suspicious circumstances. Because he used two bullets to shoot himself in the head, some suspect murder…
