How the CIA Helped Create the Crack Epidemic

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"For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency." So begins the controversial three part series, published last August, by Gary Webb in the San Jose Mercury News.

The story makes the allegation that beyond selling drugs in America in the 1980's, the U.S.-backed Contra rebels, fighting a Cuban-backed Nicaraguan regime, were largely responsible for introducing crack-cocaine into the U.S. This issue has raised interest to the point that a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has begun hearings on it.

The story has been picked up by other news organizations, notably The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times. These two papers question some of Mr. Webb's sources and his findings, especially regarding the introduction of crack into America, the targetting by Contra dealers of African-American communities and the involvement of the CIA.

In his defense, Mr. Webb told The Washington Post that "this (series) doesn't prove the CIA targeted black communities. It doesn't say this was ordered by the CIA... Essentially our trail stopped at the door of the CIA."

A 1989 Senate Foreign Relations Committee report that looked into this issue also stopped just short of implicating the CIA. It stated, "There are some serious questions as to whether or not U.S. officials involved in Central America failed to address the drug issue for fear of jeopardizing the war effort against Nicaragua."

Senator John Kerry (D-MA), Chairman of that sub-Committee, had this to say about the recent allegations raised by Mr. Webb and others, "There is no question in my mind that people affiliated with, or on the payroll of the CIA were involved in drug trafficking while involved in support of the Contras, but it is also important to note that we never found any evidence to suggest that these traffickers ever targeted any one geographic area or population group."
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[SojournerLi]

It's all a form of genocide. From the small pox soaked blankets given to indians, to the reservations they surround with pawn shops and liquor stores. Meth, crack, booze to kill the poor and it's all fine because everyone just blames the addicts.

[Kandimann]

It's amazing that people think this is a con theory. Really, when Reagan tells a million unemployed black men that drug dealers are making $3000 a day, what do you think a bunch of those men with empty stomachs are going to do? Then it's all over tv shows and movies on how to make this stuff with baking soda and people say this wasn't intentional? GTFO

[looktothestars9]

@najewssilluh

pt2) You are sick.

But lets just go with your theory....even if no one 'made' the addics in the aa community do the very addicting drugs........THE FACT THAT THE PEOPLE--(govt /CIA) whom you are supposed to 'trust', to be for the betterment-enrichment for the citizens of the united states of amerikkka, would intentionally create an substance to kill off/harm its citizens is sick in itself, yet you are sitting here blaming the victim instead of the victimizer

[looktothestars9]

@najewssilluh

This was the dumbest comment ever!! I bet you are a white.....

LOL

YOUR GOVT SET UP ILLEGAL/ADDICTIVE DRUGS & PUT them INTO THE BLACK/LOWER INCOME COMMUNITIES to cause the destruction of a race of human beings......whom were less then 10 yrs from THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA....

What dont you get krakkka?

Your racist white govt targeted the aa community/specifically to kill destroy the once/thriving strong african american family unit....and you are okay with that?

[MegaLilJet]

oh yeah, thats the one that sued the rapper rick ross for because of the name

[BlackSapphire8804]

@lvghostg

God only created us though...even science has proved that.

For Real! I hear you! They've ruined the world not just America...and they've been training us all to do the same thing.

[byronjenkins46]

Believe half of what is shown to you and none of what is told to you.

[Inferno350]

Although it may be due to the editing, that former CIA Central America official doesn't seem too credible considering he lashed out, attacked the intelligence of the reporter, and used "conspiracy" as a pejorative. Ad hominem is the sign of a scared individual scrambling to distract from the evidence and win an argument.

[007thday]

Drug dealers are the 21st century HOUSE NIGGERS!