Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the PressIn 1996, Gary Webb, a young reporter on a California newspaper charged that the CIA had conspired in the smuggling of cocaine into the U.S. and its subsequent dissemination into black urban neighborhoods. In an exciting narrative, WHITE-OUT surveys the resulting furor and lays out in explosive detail one of the most shocking hidden histories of our time. |
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Webbs Big Story | 1 |
Counterattack | 29 |
The History of Black Paranoia | 63 |
Copyright | |
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