The explosion of crack-cocaine in Los Angeles and the CIA-backed Nicaraguan contras.

In August, the San Jose Mercury News published a series of investigations called "the Dark Alliance," which traced the explosion of crack-cocaine in Los Angeles to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan contras. Today we’ll hear from Gary Webb, the investigative journalist who wrote the San Jose Mercury News series, speaking at a recent community meeting in Los Angeles.


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