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125. 9.25.14 Managing a Nightmare: How the CIA Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb By Ryan Deverea
Sat Sep 27, 2014, 01:46 AM
Sep 2014
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/25/managing-nightmare-cia-media-destruction-gary-webb/


Managing a Nightmare: How the CIA Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb
By Ryan Devereaux
@rdevro

Eighteen years after it was published, “Dark Alliance,” the San Jose Mercury News’s bombshell investigation into links between the cocaine trade, Nicaragua’s Contra rebels, and African American neighborhoods in California, remains one of the most explosive and controversial exposés in American journalism.

The 20,000-word series enraged black communities, prompted Congressional hearings, and became one of the first major national security stories in history to blow up online. It also sparked an aggressive backlash from the nation’s most powerful media outlets, which devoted considerable resources to discredit author Gary Webb’s reporting. Their efforts succeeded, costing Webb his career. On December 10, 2004, the journalist was found dead in his apartment, having ended his eight-year downfall with two .38-caliber bullets to the head.

These days, Webb is being cast in a more sympathetic light. He’s portrayed heroically in a major motion picture set to premiere nationwide next month. And documents newly released by the CIA provide fresh context to the “Dark Alliance” saga — information that paints an ugly portrait of the mainstream media at the time.

On September 18, the agency released a trove of documents spanning three decades of secret government operations. Culled from the agency’s in-house journal, Studies in Intelligence, the materials include a previously unreleased six-page article titled “Managing a Nightmare: CIA Public Affairs and the Drug Conspiracy Story.” Looking back on the weeks immediately following the publication of “Dark Alliance,” the document offers a unique window into the CIA’s internal reaction to what it called “a genuine public relations crisis” while revealing just how little the agency ultimately had to do to swiftly extinguish the public outcry. Thanks in part to what author Nicholas Dujmovic, a CIA Directorate of Intelligence staffer at the time of publication, describes as “a ground base of already productive relations with journalists,” the CIA’s Public Affairs officers watched with relief as the largest newspapers in the country rescued the agency from disaster, and, in the process, destroyed the reputation of an aggressive, award-winning reporter.

(Dujmovic’s name was redacted in the released version of the CIA document, but was included in a footnote in a 2010 article in the Journal of Intelligence. Dujmovic confirmed his authorship to The Intercept.)
Kill the Messenger Jeremy Renner

Actor Jeremy Renner stars as investigative journalist Gary Webb in the upcoming film “Kill the Messenger.”

Webb’s troubles began in August 1996, when his employer, the San Jose Mercury News, published a groundbreaking, three-part investigation he had worked on for more than a year. Carrying the full title “Dark Alliance: The Story Behind the Crack Explosion,” Webb’s series reported that in addition to waging a proxy war for the U.S. government against Nicaragua’s revolutionary Sandinista government in the 1980s, elements of the CIA-backed Contra rebels were also involved in trafficking cocaine to the U.S. in order to fund their counter-revolutionary campaign. The secret flow of drugs and money, Webb reported, had a direct link to the subsequent explosion of crack cocaine abuse that had devastated California’s most vulnerable African American neighborhoods.

Derided by some as conspiracy theory and heralded by others as investigative reporting at its finest, Webb’s series spread through extensive talk radio coverage and global availability via the internet, which at the time was still a novel way to promote national news.

Though “Dark Alliance” would eventually morph into a personal crisis for Webb, it was initially a PR disaster for the CIA. In “Managing a Nightmare,” Dujmovic minced no words in describing the potentially devastating effect of the series on the agency’s image:

The charges could hardly be worse. A widely read newspaper series leads many Americans to believe CIA is guilty of at least complicity, if not conspiracy, in the outbreak of crack cocaine in America’s cities. In more extreme versions of the story circulating on talk radio and the internet, the Agency was the instrument of a consistent strategy by the US Government to destroy the black community and keep black Americans from advancing. Denunciations of CIA–reminiscent of the 1970s–abound. Investigations are demanded and initiated. The Congress gets involved.

Dujmovic acknowledged that Webb “did not state outright that CIA ran the drug trade or even knew about it.” In fact, the agency’s central complaint, according to the document, was over the graphics that accompanied the series, which suggested a link between the CIA and the crack scare, and Webb’s description of the Contras as “the CIA’s army” (despite the fact that the Contras were quite literally an armed, militant group not-so-secretly supported by the U.S., at war with the government of Nicaragua).

Dujmovic complained that Webb’s series “appeared with no warning,” remarking that, for all his journalistic credentials, “he apparently could not come up with a widely available and well-known telephone number for CIA Public Affairs.” This was probably because Webb “was uninterested in anything the Agency might have to say that would diminish the impact of his series,” he wrote. (Webb later said that he did contact the CIA but that the agency would not return his calls; efforts to obtain CIA comment were not mentioned in the “Dark Alliance” series).

Dujmovic also pointed out that much of what was reported in “Dark Alliance” was not new. Indeed, in 1985, more than a decade before the series was published, Associated Press journalists Robert Parry and Brian Barger found that Contra groups had “engaged in cocaine trafficking, in part to help finance their war against Nicaragua.” In a move that foreshadowed Webb’s experience, the Reagan White House launched “a concerted behind-the-scenes campaign to besmirch the professionalism of Parry and Barger and to discredit all reporting on the contras and drugs,” according to a 1997 article by Peter Kornbluh for the Columbia Journalism Review. “Whether the campaign was the cause or not, coverage was minimal.”

Neverthess, a special senate subcommittee, chaired by then-senator John Kerry, investigated the AP’s findings and, in 1989, released a 1,166-page report on covert U.S. operations throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. It found “considerable evidence” that the Contras were linked to running drugs and guns — and that the U.S. government knew about it.
Nicaragua Contras 1983

1983, Anti-Sandinista Contra forces move down the San Juan River which separates Nicaragua from Costa Rica.

From the subcommittee report:

On the basis of this evidence, it is clear that individuals who provided support for the Contras were involved in drug trafficking, the supply network of the Contras was used by drug trafficking organizations, and elements of the Contras themselves knowingly received financial and material assistance from drug traffickers. In each case, one or another agency of the U.S. government had information regarding the involvement either while it was occurring, or immediately thereafter.

The chief of the CIA’s Central America Task Force was also quoted as saying, “With respect to (drug trafficking) by the Resistance Forces…it is not a couple of people. It is a lot of people.”

Despite such damning assessments, the subcommittee report received scant attention from the country’s major newspapers. Seven years later, Webb would be the one to pick up the story. His articles distinguished themselves from the AP’s reporting in part by connecting an issue that seemed distant to many U.S. readers — drug trafficking in Central America — to a deeply-felt domestic story, the impact of crack cocaine in California’s urban, African American communities.

“Dark Alliance” focused on the lives of three men involved in shipping cocaine to the U.S.: Ricky “Freeway” Ross, a legendary L.A. drug dealer; Oscar Danilo Blandón Reyes, considered by the U.S. government to be Nicaragua’s biggest cocaine dealer living in the United States; and Meneses Cantarero, a powerful Nicaraguan player who had allegedly recruited Blandón to sell drugs in support of the counter-revolution. The series examined the relationship between the men, their impact on the drug market in California and elsewhere, and the disproportionate sentencing of African Americans under crack cocaine laws.

And while its content was not all new, the series marked the beginning of something that was: an in-depth investigation published outside the traditional mainstream media outlets and successfully promoted on the internet. More than a decade before Wikileaks and Edward Snowden, Webb showcased the power and reach of online journalism. Key documents were hosted on the San Jose Mercury News website, with hyperlinks, wiretap recordings and follow-up stories. The series was widely discussed on African American talk radio stations; on some days attracting more than one million readers to the newspaper’s website. As Webb later remarked, “you don’t have be The New York Times or The Washington Post to bust a national story anymore.”

But newspapers like the Times and the Post seemed to spend far more time trying to poke holes in the series than in following up on the underreported scandal at its heart, the involvement of U.S.-backed proxy forces in international drug trafficking. The Los Angeles Times was especially aggressive. Scooped in its own backyard, the California paper assigned no fewer than 17 reporters to pick apart Webb’s reporting. While employees denied an outright effort to attack the Mercury News, one of the 17 referred to it as the “get Gary Webb team.” Another said at the time, “We’re going to take away that guy’s Pulitzer,” according to Kornbluh’s CJR piece. Within two months of the publication of “Dark Alliance,” the L.A. Times devoted more words to dismantling its competitor’s breakout hit than comprised the series itself.

The CIA watched these developments closely, collaborating where it could with outlets who wanted to challenge Webb’s reporting. Media inquiries had started almost immediately following the publication of “Dark Alliance,” and Dujmovic in “Managing a Nightmare” cites the CIA’s success in discouraging “one major news affiliate” from covering the story. He also boasts that the agency effectively departed from its own longstanding policies in order to discredit the series. “For example, in order to help a journalist working on a story that would undermine the Mercury News allegations, Public Affairs was able to deny any affiliation of a particular individual — which is a rare exception to the general policy that CIA does not comment on any individual’s alleged CIA ties.”

The document chronicles the shift in public opinion as it moved in favor of the CIA, a trend that began about a month and a half after the series was published. “That third week in September was a turning point in media coverage of this story,” Dujmovic wrote, citing “[r]espected columnists, including prominent blacks,” along with the New York Daily News, the Baltimore Sun, The Weekly Standard and the Washington Post. The agency supplied the press, “as well as former Agency officials, who were themselves representing the Agency in interviews with the media,” with “these more balanced stories,” Dujmovic wrote. The Washington Post proved particularly useful. “Because of the Post‘s national reputation, its articles especially were picked up by other papers, helping to create what the Associated Press called a ‘firestorm of reaction’ against the San Jose Mercury News.” Over the month that followed, critical media coverage of the series (“balanced reporting”) far outnumbered supportive stories, a trend the CIA credited to the Post, The New York Times, “and especially the Los Angeles Times.” Webb’s editors began to distance themselves from their reporter.

By the end of October, two months after “Dark Alliance” was published, “the tone of the entire CIA-drug story had changed,” Dujmovic was pleased to report. “Most press coverage included, as a routine matter, the now-widespread criticism of the Mercury News allegations.”

“This success has to be in relative terms,” Dujmovic wrote, summing up the episode. “In the world of public relations, as in war, avoiding a rout in the face of hostile multitudes can be considered a success.”
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Artwork that accompanied the original Dark Alliance series published in the San Jose Mercury News.

There’s no question that “Dark Alliance” included flaws, which the CIA was able to exploit.

In his CJR piece, Kornbluh said the series was “problematically sourced” and criticized it for “repeatedly promised evidence that, on close reading, it did not deliver.” It failed to definitively connect the story’s key players to the CIA, he noted, and there were inconsistencies in Webb’s timeline of events.

But Kornbluh also uncovered problems with the retaliatory reports described as “balanced” by the CIA. In the case of the L.A. Times, he wrote, the paper “stumbled into some of the same problems of hyperbole, selectivity, and credibility that it was attempting to expose” while ignoring declassified evidence (also neglected by the New York Times and the Washington Post) that lent credibility to Webb’s thesis. “Clearly, there was room to advance the contra/drug/CIA story rather than simply denounce it,” Kornbluh wrote.

The Mercury News was partially responsible “for the sometimes distorted public furor the stories generated,” Kornbluh said, but also achieved “something that neither the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, nor The New York Times had been willing or able to do — revisit a significant story that had been inexplicably abandoned by the mainstream press, report a new dimension to it, and thus put it back on the national agenda where it belongs.”

In October, the story of Gary Webb will reach a national moviegoing audience, likely reviving old questions about his reporting and the outrage it ignited. Director Michael Cuesta’s film, Kill the Messenger, stars Jeremy Renner as the hard-charging investigative reporter and borrows its title from a 2006 biography written by award-winning investigative journalist Nick Schou, who worked as a consultant on the script.

Discussing the newly disclosed “Managing a Nightmare” document, Schou says it squares with what he found while doing his own reporting. Rather than some dastardly, covert plot to destroy (or, as some went so far as to suggest, murder) Webb, Schou posits that the journalist was ultimately undone by the petty jealousies of the modern media world. The CIA “didn’t really need to lift a finger to try to ruin Gary Webb’s credibility,” Schou told The Intercept. “They just sat there and watched these journalists go after Gary like a bunch of piranhas.”

“They must have been delighted over at Langley, the way this all unfolded,” Schou added.

At least one journalist who helped lead the campaign to discredit Webb, feels remorse for what he did. As Schou reported for L.A. Weekly, in a 2013 radio interview L.A. Times reporter Jesse Katz recalled the episode, saying, “As an L.A. Times reporter, we saw this series in the San Jose Mercury News and kind of wonder[ed] how legit it was and kind of put it under a microscope. And we did it in a way that most of us who were involved in it, I think, would look back on that and say it was overkill. We had this huge team of people at the L.A. Times and kind of piled on to one lone muckraker up in Northern California.”

Schou, too, readily concedes there were problems with Webb’s reporting, but maintains that the most important components of his investigation stood up to scrutiny, only to be buried under the attacks from the nation’s biggest papers.

“I think it’s fair to take a look at the story objectively and say that it could have been better edited, it could have been packaged better, it would have been less inflammatory. And sure, maybe Gary could have, like, actually put in the story somewhere ‘I called the CIA X-amount of times and they didn’t respond.’ That wasn’t in there,” he said. “But these are all kind of minor things compared to the bigger picture, which is that he documented for the first time in the history of U.S. media how CIA complicity with Central American drug traffickers had actually impacted the sale of drugs north of the border in a very detailed, accurate story. And that’s, I think, the take-away here.”

As for Webb’s tragic death, Schou is certain it was a direct consequence of the smear campaign against him.

“As much as it’s true that he suffered from a clinical depression for years and years — and even before ‘Dark Alliance’ to a certain extent — it’s impossible to view what happened to him without understanding the death of his career as a result of this story,” he explained. “It was really the central defining event of his career and of his life.”

“Once you take away a journalist’s credibility, that’s all they have,” Schou says. “He was never able to recover from that.”

Kill the Messenger, a thriller based on Webb’s story, will be released October 10.

In “Managing a Nightmare,” Dujmovic attributed the initial outcry over the “Dark Alliance” series to “societal shortcomings” that are not present in the spy agency.

“As a personal post-script, I would submit that ultimately the CIA-drug story says a lot more about American society on the eve of the millennium that [sic] it does about either the CIA or the media,” he wrote. “We live in somewhat coarse and emotional times–when large numbers of Americans do not adhere to the same standards of logic, evidence, or even civil discourse as those practiced by members of the CIA community.”

Webb obviously saw things differently. He reflected on his fall from grace in the 2002 book, Into the Buzzsaw. Prior to “Dark Alliance,” Webb said, “I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests.”

“And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bliss had been. The reason I’d enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn’t been, as I’d assumed, because I was careful and diligent and good at my job,” Webb wrote. “The truth was that, in all those years, I hadn’t written anything important enough to suppress.”



Photo: Webb: Bob Berg/Getty Images; Kill the Messenger: Chuck Zlotnick/Focus Features; Contras: Bill Gentile/Corbis

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10.6.14-THR- 'Kill the Messenger': Jeremy Renner Deconstructs Journalist Gary Webb's Legacy 777man Oct 2014 #147
10.5.14 - Jeremy Renner The 'Kill the Messenger' Interview 777man Oct 2014 #148
10.5.14- Michael K. Williams on what ‘Kill the Messenger’ says about the drug war 777man Oct 2014 #149
10.6.14- JIMMY FALLON Show- Jeremy Renner Interview about KTM and Gary WEBB 777man Oct 2014 #150
10.7.14 Huff Post-Why Jeremy Renner's Kill the Messenger Role Is Like Rock Music by Nell Minow 777man Oct 2014 #151
10.7.14 Roger's Review-- Kill the Messenger – Jeremy Renner & Michael Cuesta by Dean Rogers 777man Oct 2014 #152
10.6.14 DEMOCRACY NOW-Inside the Dark Alliance:Gary Webb on the CIA, the Contras,&the Crack Cocaine 777man Oct 2014 #153
10.7.14-REUTERS- For Jeremy Renner, 'Kill the Messenger' is a story that had to be told 777man Oct 2014 #154
10.7.14 FAIR--Audio: Gary Webb on 'Dark Alliance,' CIA and Drugs 777man Oct 2014 #155
JEREMY RENNER FANSITE - www.jeremyleerenner.com 777man Oct 2014 #156
10.2.14 SCRIPPS MEDIA Inc, --VIDEO-Major Hollywood film has ties to Northern Kentucky 777man Oct 2014 #157
Video · Kill the Messenger 777man Oct 2014 #158
10.8.14 YAHOO-Michael Cuesta's "Kill the Messenger" deserves your attention this weekend. 777man Oct 2014 #159
10.8.14 Jeremy Renner - Dead Journalist's Family Stunned By Jeremy Renner's Portrayal 777man Oct 2014 #160
10.8.14 COLLIDER--Jeremy Renner Talks KILL THE MESSENGER, Balancing Fact and Fiction, Why He Wanted 777man Oct 2014 #161
10.8.14-INDIEWIRE-Jeremy Renner on How His Famous Friends Helped 'Kill the Messenger' 777man Oct 2014 #162
10.9.14-DALLAS OBSERVER-The Tragedy of Gary Webb Stings Even When Kill the Messenger Flags 777man Oct 2014 #163
10.9.14- BUFFALO NEWS-Film depicts reporter’s efforts to break CIA-Contra affair by Jeff Simon 777man Oct 2014 #164
10.2.14 KCRW SOUNDCLOUD-THE CIA CRACK SCANDAL 777man Oct 2014 #165
10.9.14 PHOTO---Jeremy Renner and Micahel Cuesta with the Webb Family 777man Oct 2014 #166
10.9.14 NARCONEWS-Distribute this Exciting Flyer and Become a Narco News Messenger 777man Oct 2014 #167
10.8.14 - HOUSTON CHRONCILE-“Kill the Messenger” — A Journalism Saga 777man Oct 2014 #168
10.2.14-NY TIMES-Resurrecting a Disgraced Reporter ‘Kill the Messenger’ Recalls a Reporter Wrongly D 777man Oct 2014 #169
10.9.14 RED EYE --'Kill the Messenger' asks some good questions 777man Oct 2014 #170
10.9.14-JON STEWART'S The Daily Show 11PM Jeremy Renner 777man Oct 2014 #171
10.9.14 Washington POST-‘Kill the Messenger’ movie review: Sticking to Gary Webb’s story 777man Oct 2014 #172
10.9.14 Den of Geek--Jeremy Renner Interview 777man Oct 2014 #173
10.9.14 IGN-- Kill the Messenger Review 777man Oct 2014 #174
10.9.14 NY POST-‘Kill the Messenger’turns journalist into unconvincing hero by Kyle Smith 777man Oct 2014 #175
10.10.14 Pittsburgh Post Gazette- review: 'Messenger' fascinating but sobering by Barbara Vanchen 777man Oct 2014 #177
10.9.14 NY Times - A Reporter in the Crosshairs 777man Oct 2014 #178
10.9.14 - USA TODAY-'Kill the Messenger' a compelling true newspaper story 777man Oct 2014 #179
10.10.14 NY DAILY NEWS-‘Kill the Messenger,’ movie review 777man Oct 2014 #180
10.9.14 SEATTLE TIMES -Jeremy Renner: ‘This is a story that needs to be told’ 777man Oct 2014 #181
10.9.14 LA TIMES -'Kill the Messenger' a cautionary tale for crusading reporters 777man Oct 2014 #182
10.9.14-EXAMINER.COM-Jeremy Renner still missing "it" factor in 'Kill the Messenger' 777man Oct 2014 #183
10.9.14 ROLLING STONE-Kill the Messenger by Peter Travers 777man Oct 2014 #184
10.9.14 HOUSTON CHRONICLE-Kill the Messenger' raises as many questions as it answers by Mick LaSalle 777man Oct 2014 #185
10.9.14 Journal Sentinal-Kill the Messenger' tells tale of reporter's clash with CIA by Duane Dudeck 777man Oct 2014 #186
10.9.14-HUFFINGTON POST-Kill the Messenger With Michael Cuesta (VIDEO) 777man Oct 2014 #187
10.9.14 ROBERT PARRY-The Sordid Contra-Cocaine Saga 777man Oct 2014 #188
10.10.14 NARCONEWS--Gary Webb "People Realized They Had Been Lied to" 777man Oct 2014 #190
10.10.14-Live with Kelly and Michael- Jeremy Renner Interview (full episode) 777man Oct 2014 #191
10.10.14-Gary Webb's Editor Jerry Ceppos Interviewed 777man Oct 2014 #192
10.10.14-HISTORY VS HOLLYWOOD - KILL THE MESSENGER 777man Oct 2014 #193
10.10.14-Key Figures In CIA-Crack Cocaine Scandal Begin To Come Forward 777man Oct 2014 #194
10.9.14-(PHOTOS)NYC KTM MOVIE PREMIER,MUSEUM OF MODERN ART 777man Oct 2014 #195
10.10.14 Jeremy Renner Says 'Kill the Messenger' Hits Close to Home:"It Became Something I Had to G 777man Oct 2014 #196
10.10.14 Jeremy Renner Was So Invested In 'Kill The Messenger,' He Created A Company To Make It 777man Oct 2014 #197
10.10.14- ‘The New York Times’ Wants Gary Webb to Stay Dead 777man Oct 2014 #198
Jeremy Renner, Michael Cuesta Spotlight Gary Webb’s Story and Family at ‘Kill the Messenger’ Premier 777man Oct 2014 #199
10.11.14 KTM REVIEWS-HUFFINGTON POST/ROLLINGSTONE/OREGONIAN 777man Oct 2014 #200
10.10.14 Jeremy Renner Plays Hero in an Engaging and Enraging True Story 777man Oct 2014 #201
10.10.14 FAIR'S JEFF COHEN -GARY WEBB Gets the Last Word in Kill the Messenger 777man Oct 2014 #202
10.12.14CNN(VID)Interview with Jeremy Renner& Michael Cuesta 11am "Reliable Sources" Show 777man Oct 2014 #203
10.9.14 LARRY KING INTERVIEW W/JEREMY RENNER 777man Oct 2014 #204
10.10.14(VIDEO)ROBERT PARRY Speaks on Gary Webb and CONTRA COCAINE SCANDAL 777man Oct 2014 #205
10.6.14 SAC BEE-Gary Webb's son on new movie "Kill the Messenger" (VIDEO) 777man Oct 2014 #206
10.11.14 ROBERT PARRY-Can MSM Handle the Contra-Cocaine Truth? 777man Oct 2014 #207
10.10.14-REDDIT- Jeremy Renner AMAA 777man Oct 2014 #208
10.12.14-MOVIES ONLINS-Jeremy Renner Kill The Messenger Interview 777man Oct 2014 #209
10.12.14-Boston Herald -Jeremy Renner excited to tell reporter’s story 777man Oct 2014 #210
10.10.14 Washington Post Still Trashing Gary WEBB- article by Kristen Page Kirby 777man Oct 2014 #211
10.9.14 ABC7 (VIDEOS) Interviews Renner, Cuesta 777man Oct 2014 #212
10.11.14 AOL BUILD(VID)Jeremy Renner/Michael Cuesta interview 52mins 777man Oct 2014 #213
10.10.14KCL(VID) Jeremy Renner and Actress Rosemarie DeWitt 777man Oct 2014 #214
10.12.14 Jeremy Renner,Michael K.Williams, Michael Cuesta Attend ‘Kill The Messenger’ Screening 777man Oct 2014 #215
10.9.14DEMOCRACY NOW-"Kill the Messenger" Resurrects Gary Webb, Journalist Maligned for Exposing CIA 777man Oct 2014 #216
10.12.14 EXAMINER-Exclusive:Jeremy Renner and author Nick Schou talk 'Kill The Me 777man Oct 2014 #217
10.12.14-HawaiiReporter-'Kill the Messenger' Puts Integrity of US Media in Question 777man Oct 2014 #218
10.12.14 Philly.com-Gary Webb, Jon Stewart, and the stories that are just too true to tell 777man Oct 2014 #219
10.10.14HUFF POST KillThe Messenger:How The Media Destroyed Gary Webb by Ryan Grimm 777man Oct 2014 #220
10.11.14-MSNBC- Were there ties between CIA and drug deals? Nick Schou Interview w/Betty Nguyen 777man Oct 2014 #221
10.13.14-We have to stop killing any 'Messenger' that dares to expose government corruption 777man Oct 2014 #222
10.13.14 NARCONEWS-P3-Gary Webb "You Could Read this Story Anywhere in the World" 777man Oct 2014 #223
10.14.14NATION-Gary Webb,a Very Fine Journalist Who Deserved Better Than He Got by Alexander Cockurn 777man Oct 2014 #224
10.15.14-METRO TIMES-Gary Webb was the messenger By Valerie Vande Panne 777man Oct 2014 #225
Almost 20 Yrs After Gary Webb Revealed CIA’s Role in the Crack Epidemic, Some of us Still Can’t 777man Oct 2014 #226
10.14.14 NPR- 'Kill The Messenger' Incompletely Unravels A Complex Tale 777man Oct 2014 #227
10.10.14EXAMINER-Jeremy Renner honors a man worth remembering by Lisa Elin 777man Oct 2014 #228
10.14.14 EXAMINER='Kill the Messenger': See this film 777man Oct 2014 #229
10.13.14 HUFF POST-Kill the Messenger and Question the Chief 777man Oct 2014 #230
10.10.14 ROGER EBERT - KTM Movie review 777man Oct 2014 #231
10.16.14 ARKTIMES 'Kill the Messenger' an above-the-fold tragedy by David Koon 777man Oct 2014 #232
10.14.14 OnMilwaukee-"Kill the Messenger"uncovers a solid movie in hunt for truth (and Oscars) 777man Oct 2014 #233
10.15.14 OC WEEKLY-Gary Webb: Pariah No More By Nick Schou 777man Oct 2014 #234
10.11.14 RT- Decades-old CIA crack-cocaine scandal gains new momentum 777man Oct 2014 #235
10.10.14 ‘Kill The Messenger’ Movie Revisits the CIA and How Crack-Cocaine Exploded in the US 777man Oct 2014 #236
10.16.14 CONSORTIUMNEWS-‘Kill the Messenger’: Rare Truth-telling 777man Oct 2014 #237
10.2.14 The Intercept’s Ryan Devereaux is No Gary Webb 777man Oct 2014 #238
Former kingpin Rick Ross talks Gary Webb’s death, C.I.A. complicity, and new doc ‘Freeway: Crack in 777man Oct 2014 #239
10.17.14 LA TIMES-Local editor has a stake in new movie 'Kill the Messenger' 777man Oct 2014 #240
10.17.14 WASHINGTON POST STILL TRASHING GARY WEBB PART 2 777man Oct 2014 #241
10.17.14 EXAMINER- Truth in a time of actual journalism 777man Oct 2014 #242
10.18.14-MOVIESONLINE.CA Rosemarie DeWitt Interview, Kill The Messenger 777man Oct 2014 #243
10.18.14LONG ISLAND PRESS-Who’s Afraid to See “Kill the Messenger”? 777man Oct 2014 #244
12.13.2004 LOOKING BACK-Maxine Waters on the death of Gary Webb 777man Oct 2014 #245
10.18.14COUNTERPUNCH-A Smoking Gun That
 Actually Smoked The CIA and the Art of the “Un-Cover-Up” 777man Oct 2014 #246
10.18.14-My Last Talk with Gary Webb by RICHARD THIEME 777man Oct 2014 #247
10.13.14-ALJAZEERA-film based on Gary Webb’s book ‘Dark Alliance,’ involving drugs, the CIA and Nic 777man Oct 2014 #248
10.17.14-MSNBC(VID)Chris Hayes interviews Academy Award Nominee Jeremy Renner about his new movie. 777man Oct 2014 #249
10.17.14-CLN-(VID)Jeremy Renner’s ‘Kill the Messenger’ Exposes CIA Cocaine Trafficking 777man Oct 2014 #250
10.17.14 WSWS.ORG-Kill the Messenger: Shedding light on CIA criminality and conspiracy 777man Oct 2014 #251
10.17.14 INFOWARS-The Truth Behind The Film Kill The Messenger And Gary Webb 777man Oct 2014 #252
10.18.14ROBERT PARRY-WASHINGTON Post’s Slimy Assault on Gary Webb 777man Oct 2014 #253
10.17.14-(VID)HUFFPOST-Ryan Grimm-How The Media Destroyed Gary Webb 777man Oct 2014 #254
10.17.14 TIDEWATERNEWS- Renner, Cuesta Interview 777man Oct 2014 #255
10.17.14 (VID)MSNBC-ALL IN W/CHRIS HAYES- 777man Oct 2014 #256
Declassified internal docs-deny drug Air America involvemnt 777man Oct 2014 #257
1998- Looking back-- MARTHA HONEY-The secret agreement MOU 777man Oct 2014 #258
10.19.14-Kill The Messenger movie review: Shocking story, too true to be told 777man Oct 2014 #259
Freeway:Crack In The System-Trailer(2014)-Marc Levin CIA Contra Documentary 777man Oct 2014 #260
10.9.14 RICHARD ROEPER(VID)-Jeremy Renner gets at a reporter’s truth 777man Oct 2014 #261
10.20.14-WashingtonPost Needs a Bus-and to Throw Jeff Leen Under It 777man Oct 2014 #262
10.10.14-TIME- This Is the Real Story Behind Kill The Messenger 777man Oct 2014 #263
10.20.14RINGOFFIRERADIO-Washington Post:Obviously Shamed by Gary Webb Movie 777man Oct 2014 #264
10.20.14TICOTIMES-Reviving the messenger:Gary Webb’s tale on film by NORMAN STOCKWELL 777man Oct 2014 #265
10.6.14 TICOTIMES-The exposure of Eugene Hasenfus by Norman Stockwell 777man Oct 2014 #266
10.20.14HUFF POST-The Gary Webb Story:Still Killing the Messenger by JOSEPH A. PALERMO 777man Oct 2014 #267
10.10.14 ESQUIRE-Jeremy Renner Talks Inhabiting the Role of Investigative Journalist Gary Webb 777man Oct 2014 #268
10.10.14 ESQUIRE-How Gary Webb Died A few words on the man portrayed in Kill the Messenge 777man Oct 2014 #269
10.20.14 FIUSM-“Kill the Messenger,” a film about honest morality By Rafael Abreu 777man Oct 2014 #270
10.19.14 THE FASHIONISTO-Jeremy Renner Dons Dolce & Gabbana Pinstripe Suit for ‘KTM’ Screening 777man Oct 2014 #271
12/2004 LOOKING BACK- THE FUNERAL OF GARY WEBB- MIKE RUPPERT 777man Oct 2014 #272
10.21.14 FAIR-A 'Worthless and Whiny' Attack on a Genuine Journalistic Hero by Peter Hart 777man Oct 2014 #273
10.21.14 FAIR-How to Drive a Colleague to His Grave and Sleep Easy at Night 777man Oct 2014 #274
10.20.14 ESQUIRE- Killing The Message by Charles P.Pierce 777man Oct 2014 #275
10.20.14 VULTURE-A Reporter Gets Torn Apart by His Own in Kill the Messenger By David Edelstein 777man Oct 2014 #276
10.5.11 The Top 5 CIA Connected Gangsters Ever By Casey Gane-McCalla 777man Oct 2014 #277
Looking Back--CH 1 Whiteout The CIA, Drugs and the Press By ALEXANDER COCKBURN and JEFFREY ST. CLAIR 777man Oct 2014 #278
10.18.14 Killing the messenger — again: New film arouses new ire from big media 777man Oct 2014 #279
10.24.14SMH-Kill the Messenger is a quietly intense tale of a journalist and his investigation. 777man Oct 2014 #280
10.24.14 CENTRAL MAINE-‘Kill the Messenger’ a story too good to tell? 777man Oct 2014 #281
10.26.14SUNDAY TELEGRAPH-Kill The Messenger: Thriller to make you think 777man Oct 2014 #282
10.21.14-Kill the Messenger 777man Oct 2014 #283
10.25.04-How John Kerry exposed the Contra-cocaine scandal by Robert Parry 777man Oct 2014 #284
10.24.14 WASH POST-Undue criticism of Gary Webb by Jeff Epton (Letter to the editor) 777man Oct 2014 #285
10.24.14 HUFF POST-Gary Webb Was Right by Marc Levin 777man Oct 2014 #286
10.25.14 SALON-From Gary Webb to James Risen: The struggle for the soul of journalism 777man Oct 2014 #287
10.30.14 PBS-Tavis Smiley-Jeremy Renner Interview 777man Oct 2014 #288
10.24.14 BORDERLAND BEAT-Kill The Messenger; The Gary Webb Story 777man Oct 2014 #289
10.25.14 FIREDOGLAKE-Gary Webb and the 2014 Sandinistas 777man Oct 2014 #290
10.19.14 CEPR-In Context of Accusations of CIA Drug Smuggling, WaPo Calls $10 Million a Week "Relati 777man Oct 2014 #291
10.28.14 USA TODAY-The Gary Webb saga still has lessons today 777man Oct 2014 #292
10.29.14 RottenTomatoes.com 76% Fresh 78% liked KTM 777man Oct 2014 #293
10.29.14 HeraldSun-Jeremy Renner’s crusading reporter Gary Webb wins over audience in movie KTM 777man Oct 2014 #294
10.29.14 Robert Parry is RIGHT AGAIN- NYT-Nazi's used by FBI.CIA, sheltered in the USA 777man Oct 2014 #295
10.31.14 PROJECT CENSORED- The Ghost of “Dark Alliance” by Brian Covert 777man Nov 2014 #296
10.21.14MOTHER JONES-We Spent $7.6 Billion to Crush the Afghan Opium Trade—and It's Doing Better Tha 777man Nov 2014 #297
10.25.14 AL JAZEERA-The decline of journalism from Watergate to 'Dark Alliance' 777man Nov 2014 #298
10.28.14-ROBERT PARRY-How the Washington Press Turned Bad 777man Nov 2014 #299
10.31.14-Big Media Has Betrayed the People by Greg Maybury/CONSORTIUM NEWS 777man Nov 2014 #300
10.31.14-OFF-TOPIC- Use TOR with Facebook https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/ 777man Nov 2014 #301
10.31.14FAIR- USA Today: Still Not Too Late to Attack Gary Webb by Peter Hart 777man Nov 2014 #302
11.2.14 SMH-Kill the Messenger review: Competent telling of Gary Webb's story shuns detail 777man Nov 2014 #303
11.02.14 CONSORTIUM NEWS -Gary Webb and Media Manipulation by Beverly Bandler 777man Nov 2014 #304
11.05.14 Kill the Messenger:' A Shocking Story with Media Backlash 777man Nov 2014 #305
11.6.14- Dead right Kill the Messenger 777man Nov 2014 #306
11.7.14-Racism Drove the Backlash Against Gary Webb by Greg Grandlin 777man Nov 2014 #307
11.9.14 OFF TOPIC- The Insane Story Behind The Largest Drug Cash Seizure Of All Time – $226 Million 777man Nov 2014 #308
11.12.14 EXAMINER- "Kill The Messenger" is important; Jeremy Renner compelling in it 777man Nov 2014 #309
11.15.14 DAILY KOS-Snowden and Webb: A Tale of Two Films by Dan Falcone 777man Nov 2014 #310
11.15.14-AN OPEN LETTER TO JEFF LEEN /WASHINGTON POST RE:GARY WEBB 777man Nov 2014 #311
11.14.14-TRUTHOUT-"Kill the Messenger" Kills a Chance to Comment on Real Reagan Atrocities 777man Nov 2014 #312
11.14.14 Kill the Messenger: Truth cloaked by shades of grey 777man Nov 2014 #313
11.17.14 SALON-Reagan’s hip-hop nightmare: How an ugly cocaine controversy reignited 30 years later 777man Nov 2014 #314
Support Gary Webb and Re-Release Kill the Messenger in Theaters 777man Nov 2014 #315
11.20.14-INTHESETIMES-The Reporter Who Paid a High Price for ‘Contra Crack’ 777man Nov 2014 #316
11.16.14 UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2014 777man Dec 2014 #317
Kill the Messenger Script FREE DOWNLOAD 777man Dec 2014 #318
12.04.14 A friend remembers investigative journalist Gary Webb on the 10th anniversary of his death 777man Dec 2014 #319
Petition Update/Tid Bits- PUT KTM BACK IN THEATERS 777man Dec 2014 #320
KTM DVD RELEASE DATE-JANUARY 27, 2015 777man Dec 2014 #321
12-16-14 EDITOR &PUBLISHER-Business of News: An Editor with No Regrets-JERRY CEPPOS 777man Dec 2014 #322
12.14.14-RadioWHO Ep3: CIA Crack Kingpin Ricky Ross 777man Dec 2014 #323
10.17.14 LASD Deputy ROBERTO JUAREZ Interview 777man Jan 2015 #324
KTM DVD Release date Feb 10, 2015 amazon.com 777man Jan 2015 #325
GOFUNDME Campaign for EX DEA Celerino Castillo III 777man Feb 2015 #326
Politico--DEA agents had ‘sex parties’ with prostitutes hired by drug cartels 777man Mar 2015 #327
Robert Parry's December 20, 1985 Article About the Contras: 777man Jun 2015 #329
Senior DEA Officials Met with El Chapo Guzman In Prison 777man Jul 2015 #330
7/1/15 L.A. DEA Agent Unraveled the CIA's Alleged Role in the Murder of Kiki Camarena 777man Jul 2015 #331
4.17.15 Tucson Sentinal "Why Chuck Bowden's final story took 16 years to write" 777man Aug 2015 #332
8/29/15 HBO plays Kill the Messenger Movie 777man Sep 2015 #333
7/28/15-German documentary-'butcher of Lyon' Klaus Barbie became a fixer for drug lords 777man Sep 2015 #334
11/14/15 CIA-NUGAN HAND BANKER FOUND ALIVE 35 YEARS LATER - John Michael Hand Found in Idaho 777man Nov 2015 #336
Nugan Hand bank mystery: Michael Hand found living in the United States 777man Nov 2015 #337
11/14/15 Nugan Hand Bank fugitive found in US 777man Nov 2015 #338
11/6/15 VIDEO- Michael Hand vanished in 1980 amid rumors of CIA and organized crime involvement deal 777man Nov 2015 #339
The Ghosts of Nugan Hand: A New Chapter in a Long-Running CIA Bank Mystery 777man Nov 2015 #340
Freeway Ricky Ross Arrested With $100K In Cash Of Suspected Drug Money 777man Nov 2015 #341
12/17/15-ProPublica,David Epstein, Devils, Deals and the DEA Why Chapo Guzman was the biggest winner 777man Dec 2015 #342
Danilo Blandon Smiled when asked if he had been tipped off about the 1986 raid - Mark Levin 777man Jan 2016 #343
Freeway: Crack in the System VIEW IT FREE ONLINE 777man Jan 2016 #344
UNDERSTANDING THE IRAN CONTRA AFFAIR WEBSITE 777man Jan 2016 #345
Creating a Crime: How the CIA Commandeered the DEA September 11, 2015 by Douglas Valentine 777man Jan 2016 #346
Bank Records Seized at Blandon's House Revealed U.S. Treasury/State Accounts with 9 Million Balance 777man Jan 2016 #347
KERRY REPORT Volume 1 in PDF - Download Here- 777man Jan 2016 #348
11/01/2014 Government Drug Dealing: from "Kill the Messenger" to "Pinocchio" 777man Jan 2016 #349
"It is ..believed by the FBI, SF, that Norwin Meneses was & still may be, an informant for the CIA 777man Jan 2016 #350
1/9/16 Rolling Stone - SECRET El Chapo Interview with Sean Penn 777man Jan 2016 #351
7/12/15 A DEA Agent at War with the War on Drugs Mike levine 777man Jan 2016 #352
This is why official DC was dead set against a Kerry WH. blm Jul 2014 #102
Cocaine cowboys, arms to Central America and Eastern Airlines geojet707 Jun 2015 #328
Serving Dope site compromised 305hitman Nov 2015 #335
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villager thank you for posting. SamKnause Apr 2014 #78
After all this time, it'll be good to finally see the flick! villager Jul 2014 #101
Look Forward To Seeing The Movie Tomorrow cantbeserious Oct 2014 #176
Gotta find out where it's playing -- some of the mainstream media reaction has been interesting... villager Oct 2014 #189
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