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did the CIA put crack in the hood?


To stick to the facts, LA's biggest cocaine supplier got his stuff from a pair of Nicaraguans were members of the CIA-backed Nicaraguan contras raising money for the organization. A journalist named Gary Webb covered the whole thing, who later murdered by two gunshots, and his death was ruled a suicide.

Make up your mind on this.


Funding an anti-communist death squad that also sells drugs isn’t exactly the same as bringing crack to the hood.


No. This has been pretty thoroughly refuted.


who refuted it? other federal agencies? the crack just materialized on its own?


There was never any evidence to begin with. The author of the often cited investigative report even refutes the assertion that the CIA was involved. It’s pure fantasy.


right, and then the guy who wrote the report later "killed himself" with two gunshots to the head.


People shooting themselves in the head often reflexively pull the trigger twice.

Do you suppose the elite hit squad that came to kill him simply added an extra bullet by mistake?


from what I have been able to determine, this does not seem to be true—people who die from multiple self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head seem to be quite few and far between.


His ex-wife and the LA county corner were pretty convinced that he did it himself. Why would the CIA kill him if he wasn’t point the finger at them?


what about bombing merchant ships in indonesia, has that been refuted too?




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