Gary Webb, author of the book 'Dark Alliance' about the alleged CIA involvment in the drug trade is shown in this undated publicity photograph. (HO) Gary Webb's 1996 "Dark Alliance" stories for ...

Gary Webb is dead. He was the journalist who wrote a famous--or infamous--1996 series for the San Jose Mercury News that maintained a CIA-s ...

The topic of Gary Webb and his treatment within the journalism world remains divisive. People I respect fall on both sides: that he was a courageous investigative digger who got screwed over the ...

Here's Gary Webb telling his own story, in his own words. To read more about Webb, including his controversial book, Dark Alliance, go to narconews.com.

Webb was vilified by major newspapers after his series was published. His 1996 three-part series “Dark Alliance” implied that the CIA was a catalyst for the crack cocaine scourge in California.

Twenty years ago this month, on December 10, 2004, former San Jose Mercury News investigative reporter Gary Webb died by apparent suicide, following a stretch of depression. The subject of the ...

In 1998 Jeffrey St. Clair and I published Whiteout, a book about the relationships among the CIA, drugs and the press since the agency’s founding. We also examined the Webb affair in detail.

Gary Webb, many thanks. Salim Muwakkil is a senior editor of In These Times and host of “ The Salim Muwakkil Show” on radio station WVON-AM in Chicago.

Opening Friday, the movie tells how, in 1996, San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb (Jeremy Renner) broke a story about how the CIA funded the Contras in Nicaragua by allowing crack cocaine to ...

Webb was vilified by major newspapers after his series was published. His 1996 three-part series “Dark Alliance” implied that the CIA was a catalyst for the crack cocaine scourge in California.