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[PDF file]: […] on other similar papers or TV programmes – none of which are enhanced by straying off the reservation. Gary Webb and his stories about the CIA, the Contras and cocaine – the dark alliance as he called it – in the San Jose Mercury News in 1996, illustrated what can happen when you leave […]
[PDF file]: […] Cyprus in 1974, said: “In Special War, certain acts of sabotage are staged and blamed on the enemy to increase Gary Webb, Dark alliance: the CIA, the contras, and the crack cocaine explosion, p. 264. This is on-line. 4 William M. LeoGrande, ‘Did the Prestige Press Miss the Nicaraguan Drug Story?’ at . 5 […]
[PDF file]: […] Major Walker, as he was linked to Oliver North’s highly questionable activities in Central America. Walker had allowed KMS to provide arms and general assistance to the Contras, as well as some rather harsh ‘hands-on’ assistance in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua.2 2 The media attention that this episode received prompted Walker and his colleague […]
[…] recalled the libertarian right which was then a force in the Federation of Conservative Students – all that macho posturing in support of the Cold War, the Contras in Nicaragua and the South African government against the ANC. How many of them knew they were part of psy-ops operations being run by South African […]
