This is a survey of the violent storm provoked by Gary Webb's articles published by the "San Jose Mercury News" in 1996, charging the CIA with conspiring in the smuggling of cocaine into the US, subsequently disseminating it as crack into black urban neighbourhoods.
Alexander Cockburn was the co-editor of CounterPunch and the author of a number of titles, including Corruptions of Empire, The Golden Age Is in Us, Washington Babylon and Imperial Crusades. Brought up in Ireland, he moved to America in 1972 writing for the Village Voice, the Nation and many other journals. He died in July 2012.
"Cockburn and St. Clair present a litany of CIA misdeeds, from the
recruitment of Nazi scientists after WWII to the arming of opium
traffickers in Afghanistan. All of this is extremely well
documented ... A chilling history that many will take issue with of
what the CIA has been up to in the past 50 years."--"KIRKUS"
"A solid, pitiless piece of muckraking, ... Cockburn and St. Clair
raise troubling questions about the role of a largely secretive
government agency in a democratic society."--"San Diego Union
Tribune"
"A probing examination of the CIA's chilling history of coddling
major drug traffickers, gangsters and Nazi
psychopaths."--"Philadelphia Tribune"
"A convincing, well-researched, comprehensive condemnation of the
CIA."--"Maximum Rock 'N Roll"
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