Los Angeles Times organization
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Tom Ullman filed_dispatch
Los Angeles Times documented
“Ambassador Godley was furious. The American mission has lost any interest in helping out because the press. It is too late to halt revelations. However, Altman filed a dispatch to LA Times. For the first time, the base had been observed by …”
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Chandler family secretly_owned
Los Angeles Times caller_asserted
“Renee, go ahead, and then we'll go to Miles. Yeah, hi. Just wanted to follow up, kind of add on to what all along was mentioning about the media. Out here in Siop Central, California, the Chandler family was big, big, big. They had hold of …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 1:30:14
Los Angeles Times covered_up
CIA host_asserted
“The Times never admitted that it had wrongly accused two Nicaraguan government officials of cocaine trafficking based solely on unnamed intelligence sources. McManus and Ostro later teamed up to review allegations of contra-drug trafficking…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 58:38
Otis Chandler headed
Los Angeles Times host_asserted
“Here's one. Lincoln Chafee, we've talked about before. Class of 1971, who would become the Rhode Island governor and senator. And he comes from a family of skull and bones men. Yikes. We've got Otis Chandler, class of 46. He was a publisher…”
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Then we're going to have an awesome weekend. So the first article that I'm going to start off with is a Los Angeles Times article that was written back in 1998. And it is about the name of it is called Soldiers Cold War Ordeal Tied to CIA L…
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ain't really done nothing. It's just that he sold dope, unquote. Another veteran probation officer told the LA Times he was more like a Robin Hood type guy. You never heard of him getting high or drinking or beating women or dealing dope to…
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Renee, go ahead, and then we'll go to Miles. Yeah, hi. Just wanted to follow up, kind of add on to what all along was mentioning about the media. Out here in Siop Central, California, the Chandler family was big, big, big. They had hold of …
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There was so much cash and so much crack flying around South Central that even the mainstream media had started to notice. On November 25, 1984, one day before the DEA arrested Herrero Menendez and Rialto Pena in San Francisco, the first st…
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The reporter described the rock house phenomenon and the multitude of street corner deals. He quoted police as saying that they were several hundred rock houses in South Central Los Angeles at the time. His story accurately predicted that t…
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The crack phenomenon, the reporter said, fascinated him. He pressed to do more stories, but his editors at the Times were not interested, because the LA Times is in bed with the CIA, too. Farella, eventually, that's the reporter, quit the p…
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Freeway Rick was a dealer's dealer. By the time the market exploded in 1984, Ross already was dealing directly with the Colombian cartels who supplied him from 50 to 100 kilos a day. Los Angeles Times stated in 1994, with that, Ross was abl…
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been repeatedly involved in cocaine and arms smuggling in El Salvador and Guatemala, and noted that he was a top aide to Salvadoran death squad leader that was then the president. The later claim was confirmed in a Los Angeles Times article…
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And by prematurely exposing the sting, it blew up the DEA's investigation of the Medellin cartel, which DEA agents said had been their most promising chance to break up the Colombian drug trafficking. The drug lords went free. Vaughn, their…
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And he was a one man investigation stop that had impressive results. In November of 1985, he'd been the subject of a glowing piece in the L.A. Times for his work in taking down a large Colombian trafficking ring. Some of his fellow officers…
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Chapter 19. It didn't take the FBI very long to figure out who Scott Weakley was. Weakley had been something of an inadvertent celebrity back in 1983. Readily available was a story in the Los Angeles Times that gave him a nickname called Dr…
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As he prepared to make another stab at infiltrating Laos in early 1983, word of his mission was leaked to Soldier of Fortune magazine and picked up by the Los Angeles Time and Boston Globe. Exposed, Gritz and his squad were arrested by Thai…
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anti-terrorism expert and the daughter of a missing U.S. pilot were jailed and held for trial. In a letter to the LA Times, Grits said that the CIA and DIA both knew of the mission and provided him with the gear. Both agencies disavowed any…
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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…
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reams of evidence about Blanton's background and his association with the Contras. If Finster could catch them at it, I thought maybe the court would order the Justice Department to make all the documents public, which would give me access …
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got someone to come to Gary Webb posing as an investigator and then use the information to undercut his story. That's basically what we're saying here. Gary Webb agreed to show the investigator one of the FBI's reports that he had gotten th…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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wasn't relevant. Huff denied Fenster's motions. There was one other matter the U.S. wanted to take up if the court would be so kind, O'Neill said. Reaching into his briefcase, O'Neill yanked out a copy of the Morning LA Times and waved it o…
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to a national television audience, but it was the only network attempting to advance the story. The establishment papers, the New York Times, Washington Post, and the LA Times, the same newspaper that tried to one-up him, all were silent. W…
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Pincus' big scoop was completely bullshit. The LA Times and the New York Times struck next. On October 20th, 1996, both ran stories attacking my reporting in the series. They took the same tact as the Washington Post, admitting that the bas…
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The next day, the LA Times absolved the CIA of any involvement with Blanton and Menendez. Its authoritative sources was a former CIA director, Robert Gates, former CIA official, Vincent Castorero, and current CIA director, John Deutsch. All…
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to the CIA and asked the agency if they'd ever done anything wrong. When the CIA said no, the paper solemnly printed it, just as though the CIA hadn't previously denied any other number of illegal operations until they were caught red-hande…
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the idea that a reasonable, accurate number could ever be found in an illicit drug trade. No solid, this is a quote, no solid evidence has emerged that either Menendez or Blanton contributed any money to the rebels after 1984. The story dec…
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meaning he's basically on their payroll. O'Leary's story in the Washington Times, which had supported the Contras both editorially and financially, gave McManus the excuse he needed to rush the CIA's leak into the LA Times. According to Nor…
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L.A. Times says national security. This is a quote from North's notebook. McManus, L.A. Times says National Security Council to source claims. George H. Bush has pictures of Borge loading cocaine in Nicaragua, which is what they use to fram…
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at a Nicaraguan airport. Unfortunately for the Times, no such photograph ever surfaced, and the DEA later admitted that no such information implicated any Sandinista official in any drug trafficking. The story was a hoax, lock, stock, and b…
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The Times never admitted that it had wrongly accused two Nicaraguan government officials of cocaine trafficking based solely on unnamed intelligence sources. McManus and Ostro later teamed up to review allegations of contra-drug trafficking…
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Let's run a story about Walter Pincus' CIA connections. Let's write about how the LA Times has been booting this story since 1987. I told them my discovery that the LA Times Washington Bureau had been sent a copy of notes found in Ron Liste…
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But Cepos wouldn't budge on that issue. Thousands of reprints with the CIA crack logo were gathered up and burned, and a CD-ROM version of the series, which had been pressed and was ready for distribution, were all destroyed. The Post and t…
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Aside from Don, no one called me. They'd read the news stories. No one called with any questions. No one even suggested they'd begin editing them. In early February, Don sent me a copy of the story Peter Carey and Pam Kramer had written on …
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of the LA Times story. It quoted police and drug experts opining that the Contra drug ring couldn't have been supplied with enough cocaine to have a major impact because the crack had serviced all over the United States at about the same ti…
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to the Los Angeles Times and, weirdly enough, the Mercury News. Supposedly, having conducted an exhaustive probe from unnamed sources, it had absolved itself from any wrongdoing. Anyone surprised? No. The reporters had no idea what the repo…
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elicited mostly yawns from the news media. The Washington Post stuck the story deep inside the paper further back than they had buried the findings of the Kerry Committee Senate investigation in 1980s, which officially disclosed the Contra …
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Once again, the LA Times found nothing newsworthy about it, and the Washington Post concurred. The release three months later of Hitt's 400-page report, filled with horrifying details of the CIA's collusion with drug traffickers, money laun…
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A standard long-term pipeline, the New York Times said. The Los Angeles Times in 1996 profile portrayed Lister as a loudmouth who told lies. Confirmed Menendez's statement that Lister was involved in weapons transactions with him. Quoting a…
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Lister, quote, led a sales team on a futile mission to Civil War-wracked El Salvador in the summer of 1982 to market surplus American arms, military equipment, and use school buses to the Salvadoran military. The trip was financed, the asso…
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In the 80s, Blandin had operated directly for Menendez, according to the report. Blandin continued dealing with Menendez through 84. And this was confirmed in a Los Angeles Times news article that was written in 1996 that attempted to demon…
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The Times claimed to have interviewed an unnamed cocaine trafficking associate of Blandon's who said that he was present at Menendez's house in the Bay Area a day when Menendez and Blandon were celebrating the consummation of a big drug dea…
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The author could find only one sentence on this topic in a U.S. paper. It was buried deep in the middle of a long story in the L.A. Times. Quote, CIA officials say the underground network frequently crosses into gangsterism. One official ci…
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protested its innocence. Major newspapers, the Washington Post, New York Times, the LA Times, sided with the CIA, as they always do. In lengthy articles, all three papers attacked the Mercury News of poor journalism, but acknowledged the lo…
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Ambassador Godley was furious. The American mission has lost any interest in helping out because the press. It is too late to halt revelations. However, Altman filed a dispatch to LA Times. For the first time, the base had been observed by …
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And then they discovered that the base had an air-conditioned American-style officer's club with panoramic glass windows. Beginning with the Los Angeles Times, the Long Tan story appeared everywhere. In the Senate, Symington asked the admin…
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not because so many covert operations were underway, but because notification requirements had expanded. By far, the key oversight action of this period with respect to covert operations was a series of inquiries into the Bosnian arms traff…
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Mike Huckabee, Rush Limbaugh, and a few others. He literally heard nothing back from any of them. He also contacted CNN, Jim Cafferty, Wall Street Journal's Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, USA Today's Tom Vanderbrook, The New York Times, Micha…
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which turned out to emanate from Nixon's campaign. This is a friend of yours. This is what the phone call said. This is a friend of yours, but I can't tell you who I am. Did you know that Jerry Boris is a communist? The uniform conservative…
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been proven effective or even safe. I know because I got them. The Los Angeles Times reported on May 10th that experimental and unproved vaccines and drugs were given to all military personnel that went to the Gulf War. And again, that's tr…
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in the nation's largest battle. Shackley knew how to play this game. Shackley struck, oh, this is another quote. Shackley struck up friendships with small numbers of journalists, the older Asian hands who were mostly sympathetic with Washin…
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Everything that Woodward has ever written, both in books and as a quote unquote journalist slash reporter, he's a bold faced liar. So I do want to put one other quote here. Casey's widow, Sophia, in an article in the Los Angeles Times in 19…
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Here's one. Lincoln Chafee, we've talked about before. Class of 1971, who would become the Rhode Island governor and senator. And he comes from a family of skull and bones men. Yikes. We've got Otis Chandler, class of 46. He was a publisher…