Jesse Katz person
also: Katz, Kratz
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Jesse Katz spied_on
Gary Webb speculative
“There was the ballgame. All the connections between Blanton, the Contras, and the CIA and Ricky Ross were going to come out in public. And the LA Times was going to beat me to my own story. Nine months worth of work down the crapper. I want…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 23 @ 40:45
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▶ 33:30
A few days before Ricky Ross's trial was scheduled to begin in March of 96, Jesse Katz of the LA Times called me at home, where I had holed up to get the first draft of the series out. Though we worked for competing newspapers, Katz had bee…
▶ 33:57
He was calling me as a reporter, not a source. He was doing a story about Ross's upcoming trial, and he knew I was investigating Blanton's connections to the CIA and the Contras. He wanted to ask me about that. I was thunderstruck. I never …
▶ 34:24
got only a fraction of the tale, it took some of the sting out of the story. You must think I'm stupid, Jesse. I'm not telling you anything. Well, I already know it, and I'm going to put it in the paper. I'm just offering you a chance to co…
▶ 40:13
I couldn't wait to hear the Justice Department stand up in court and say information about the CIA's involvement in drug trafficking was classified. When I got there, I noticed that I was the only spectator in the courtroom. So I took a sea…
▶ 40:45
There was the ballgame. All the connections between Blanton, the Contras, and the CIA and Ricky Ross were going to come out in public. And the LA Times was going to beat me to my own story. Nine months worth of work down the crapper. I want…
▶ 41:46
I have reviewed the government's request that the court seal certain portions, Huff announced. You may be heard at sidebar, Mr. O'Neill, and defense counsel. The lawyers again walked up to the bench and began animated, whispered conversatio…
▶ 44:10
Inside, Gary Webb was tickled because Katz wasn't going to get any of the information he already had about the CIA's involvement. The next morning, I ran down to the hotel lobby and grabbed a copy of the Times. Katz's story had ran, focusin…
▶ 44:38
becoming the first crack dealer millionaire in South Central. The story hinted at new and surprising dimensions involving Blanton and some alleged ties to U.S. intelligence sources, but never said what they were. There was no mention of the…
▶ 48:05
Huff appeared shocked and looked angrily at the defense table. O'Neill noted that Katz's story contained a phrase from a Justice Department memo that explained Daniello Blanton's deal with the government. I submit to the court that our reas…
▶ 50:04
How else do you explain that all of that drugs came into the United States and the CIA, FBI, and DEA didn't do a damn thing about it? It literally makes no sense. The first part on the genesis of crack in LA was written by Jesse Kratz, thou…
▶ 50:26
starting in 1994 and continuing through the summer of 96, had repeatedly referred to Ross as the first and biggest crack dealer in South Central, the master marketer whose activities were key to the spread of crack. He now found that Ross w…
▶ 50:52
Kratz trotted out a number of other cocaine dealers he'd apparently missed the first time he'd written his issue. He named several of them, none of which were the major players. Gary Webb went on an L.A. radio station and said, this is like…