Crack cia conspiracy

Madison, who hosts a radio talk show in Washington, says, ""I'm not dropping it. We're standing up for all the crack babies, all the innocent bystanders hit by stray bullets during gang-related warfare over this poisonous white powder.

There is a further twist. Ross now faces life in prison while Blandon, who served 26 months in jail for his own career in drug trafficking, is now at liberty in Managua. Ross's sentencing has been delayed pending his attorney's demand for more information about Blandon's association with the CIA. The cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America and provided the cash and connections needed for L. The explosive allegations enraged the communities most affected by the crack epidemic here in the U.

Talk-radio stations with predominantly black audiences are deluged with calls on the subject. Demonstrations, candle-lighting ceremonies and town-hall meetings are becoming regular affairs. And people on the street are heatedly discussing the topic.

Eventually, the media would mostly turn against Webb, attempting to discredit him. Perhaps the extreme backlash Webb faced was inevitable since he was taking on such a large, furtive and powerful entity as the CIA. It was acknowledged that Webb did not state outright that the CIA ran the drug trade or even knew about it. However, the implications were deemed clear — and this was dangerous for the public image of the agency.

Webb would later say that he did contact the CIA during his research but that the agency would not return his calls. 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. Times and kind of piled on to one lone muckraker up in Northern California.

The report stated :. In each case, one or another agency of the U. Curiously, this remained largely unnoticed by the media until Gary Webb picked up the story years later in , and linked it to the CIA. These included CIA assets, pilots who ferried supplies to the Contras, as well as Contra officials and others. There are instances where CIA did not, in an expeditious or consistent fashion, cut off relationships with individuals supporting the Contra program who were alleged to have engaged in drug trafficking activity or take action to resolve the allegations.

Some interpreted the connection as part of a CIA conspiracy to purposefully target the black community, an allegation Webb denies he ever made.

Absolutely true! Why bring up old white people atrocities against black people now? Because the gentile european caucasian, lepers, fake jews or white folks agenda has always been to destroy the black man, ever since pharaoh tried to murder Christ by murdering Hebrew babies, until now.

Already a print subscriber? Go here to link your subscription. Need help? Visit our Help Center. These drug purveyors were allegedly injecting the Black community with crack-cocaine and killing off the community.

Webb later agreed in an interview that there was no hard evidence that the CIA as an institution or any of its agent-employees carried out or profited from drug trafficking. But it was too late! The conspiracy theory was let out the bag! Highly respected politicos like Rep. Maxine Waters wondered whether there were possible machinations behind the crack epidemic that involved the U.