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9. CIA destroyed Gary Webb for crime of reporting on its drug links

Thu Sep 25, 2014, 04:08 PM

Sep 2014

@ggreenwald · Great article by @rdevro on new docs showing how CIA destroyed Gary Webb for crime of reporting on its drug links https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/25/managing-nightmare-cia-media-destruction-gary-webb/ …

@ggreenwald · The CIA knew it could use "a ground base of already productive relations with journalists" to destroy Gary Webb https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/25/managing-nightmare-cia-media-destruction-gary-webb/ …

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