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“Really valuable intel you can get in a bar. You think? I've seen that over and over and over again. I just went through it with Gary Webb's book about the gathering of intelligence down in Costa Rica at the bar. Which one of Webb's books? T…”
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Really valuable intel you can get in a bar. You think? I've seen that over and over and over again. I just went through it with Gary Webb's book about the gathering of intelligence down in Costa Rica at the bar. Which one of Webb's books? T…
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From an economic war perspective, I see this over and over again. Again, going back to Gary Webb's book, they talk about counterfeiting as part of the funding of the Contras. We know that counterfeiting was a big deal in World War II. This …
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We're on Chapter 20 of Dark Alliance, and we left off with the total debacle that had occurred on one of the largest busts that could have ever happened in Los Angeles to actually address the influx of cocaine.…
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all the stuff related to Epstein and September 11th and the Federal Reserve that's kind of dropping right now? That's a good question. I really want to do Dark Alliance. I think it's important for a lot of reasons of, and I don't know how t…
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The whatever the mainstream media in the past talked about, first of all, a lot of times they're completely silent, as we learned in Dark Alliance. They won't even run a story. And as soon as something does break, they will run a counter op…
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Because when I was down as a listener, I didn't hear anything, but you might not have been saying anything. We got 100%, so cool. Yeah, it's already kicked me out twice, so. Crazy. Today, just to set the tone for the book, this book is very…
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And so a lot of it is going to be from the book itself as opposed to kind of just paraphrasing parts of it, which I normally do, only because a lot of it is stuff we've already heard in most of the other books. Some sections, if we already …
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how awful our Congress is, that the foreword to this book is by none other than Congresswoman Maxine Waters. And we now know that she spent decades in Congress and did literally nothing about any of this. But I want you guys to hear in her …
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Just so that you know, we're going to be using the 2014 edition. This book was originally written in 1998. So just to put that in context, obviously, that's during the Clinton administration.…
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the foreword in 2004, that edition of the book. This book has been put out several times. So Dan Simons, this is his words. I began working as Gary Webb's editor on Dark Alliance, the book, in July 1997, about a year after his newspaper ser…
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and funneled millions of drug profits to a Latin America guerrilla army ran by the U.S. CIA, a Mercury News investigation has found, unquote. The Dark Alliance story documented a network of collusion in the 1980s that joined together the cr…
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had been far greater than even I imagined. The drug ring was even bigger than I had portrayed. The agents and officials in the DEA had protected the traffickers from arrest, something I'd not been allowed to print, unquote. Gary had loved w…
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Now, when I reread the opening sentence of Dark Alliance series, I grasp with the wisdom or at least, let's say, the clarity of the intervening years that Gary had stumbled onto the biggest story of all of our lives, the one about the betra…
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The night I read Dark Alliance series, I was so alarmed that I literally sat straight up in bed pouring over every word. I reflected on the many meetings I had attended throughout South Central L.A. during the 1980s when I constantly asked,…
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Bourget. I had the opportunity to question Contra leaders Aldolfo Calero and Eden Pastora in a Senate investigative hearing, which was meant to be perfunctory, until I arrived to ask questions based on the vast knowledge I had gathered in m…
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funds to community groups and organizations. The time I spent investigating the allegations of Dark Alliance series led me to the undeniable conclusion that the CIA, DEA, DIA, and FBI knew about the drug trafficking in South Central Los Ang…
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The editors of the San Jose Mercury News did not have the strength to withstand the attack, so they abandoned Gary Webb, despite their knowledge that Gary was working on further documentation to substantiate the allegations of the series. H…
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author's note that Gary Webb wrote. This sadly is a true story. It is based upon controversial series I wrote in the San Jose Mercury News in the summer of 1996 about the origins of the crack plague in South Central Los Angeles. Unlike othe…
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was ignored or was responded to a document so heavily censored, they must have been the source of much hilarity down at the FOIA office. The sole exception was the National Archives and Records Administration. Dark Alliance does not propoun…
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Guys, we're going to jump right in. I see SR here. Let me get him up here to co-host. And all right. So we've been covering, obviously, Dark Alliance by Gary Webb and the collusion between the CIA, the DEA, the ATF, the State Department, an…
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Okay, good evening, everyone. Thank you for attending part 17 of Dark Alliance. Let me get us going over here on Rumble. Oh, dear goodness. Rumble's like going crazy. My whole screen just started going crazy. All right, let's try this again…
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And it just seems like with each update, it gets worse and worse and worse, you know? I agree. All right. So let's dig in here because today's going to be an early day because it's Wednesday. Okay. So in short, chapter 24 of Dark Alliance, …
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And he gets caught and he gets basically life without parole. That's in a nutshell, chapter 24. And that is where Gary Webb, we get back to the beginning of the book in the story in part two of chapter 25.…
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I think at this point, you know, we've gotten through, you know, six chapters of it. And what I'm struck by is, you know, when I heard about Dark Alliance, you know, I remembered that, you know, the, you know, the CIA defender side of it, y…
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Also, Rob Owens, and if you remember Rob Owens, Rob Owens is the guy that was Oliver Norse. We've talked about him in Gary Webb's book. Rob Owens is the guy that was Oliver Norse's right-hand man that they stuck in the State Department unde…
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said by Weiland to Tazewell. The next entry in the diary shows his schedule for the coming Tuesday on which he has a meeting with Roth and Weiland set up at 1230. Sergio knows Vesco, ex-bodyguard who is in Spain. And who's Vesco? Robert Ves…
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Now, remember, Alan Fiers is the guy that was covering for the corrupt DEA in El Salvador, where they were running everything out of El Palapango, whatever the airport is there, with the death squads in El Salvador. He covered all of the op…
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Basically, we were just talking about the whole Corson-CIA connections. You know, of course, he denied ever being associated with or Michners. And this chapter really laid out the connection between Oliver North, Corson, Michner, the guys t…
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pin all of those Gary Webb stories on the rear end of Corson and Michener and show how they were all connected and how Belize was a central entity in setting up paramilitary training camps there as well as being a thoroughfare for drugs and…
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It brokers aircraft, and we went through all of this in the 80s with the book we did, Dark Alliance, how they were basically just re-registering aircraft and basically laundering them. And then the modification piece, that's where they equi…
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packet of maps so Owen could take to Honduras. Now remember, Owen is the guy that was planted in the State Department. We talked about him at length in several of the books, but primarily the one where, what's his, Dark Alliance, Gary Webb …
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And his book, Dark Alliance, and how basically, you know, he paid the price of being one of the first people to break all of this information. And just for reference, this book, because we always like to know when the books get published, t…
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Here, free to the public, you will find two decades of reports, seven languages, including major drug war scoops by Bill Conroy, the censored San Jose Mercury News Dark Alliance series by Gary Webb, early viral videos from Narco News TV, tr…
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Much of that we covered in Gary Webb's book, Dark Alliance. Understanding the risk of crossing the line with respects to violating his now classified truth telling, Plumlee still appeared on former Deep Cover DEA agent Mike Levin's radio sh…
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via arms sales to Iran to fund Nicaraguan Contras. Part of the scandal also implicates the CIA and the national security staff in narcotic and arms trafficking. Investigative Gary Webb further bolstered the claims of the U.S. government's i…
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Gary Hart's the senator. Yeah, and pictures of the fling, the girl that he had a fling with. And then the headline was, How Gary Hart's Scandal Changed the Face of American Politics. Yeah. And then also my other question for you was, are yo…
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the network down channel, none of that could have happened. And so in Gary Webb's book, he talks about…
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Can't talk to that person. Can't get to them. Can't do any of that. Right. I think they added this to the playbook after they lost all of that in the 80s and 90s. No, no, they were doing it in the 80s and 90s. In Dark Alliance, that's one o…
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I did want to take a second and just let you guys know, I finished a book I've been reading over the weekend and I did take a prerogative of not going with either Dark Alliance or Legacy of Ashes. I will get to them, but I thought it was so…
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Alabama is one of the worst. What book was it that we were reading? That was Gary Webb's book that talked about the guy that came set up shop next to the neighbors and the FBI all was hanging out at the neighbors because he was building an …