CIA drug trafficking - study resources
According to some, the Central Intelligence Agency has been involved in the illegal drug trade since its creation in 1947 and possibly before then when it was the Office of Strategic Services.
Gary Webb was an investigative journalist who, in 1996, famously exposed some of the connections between the CIA and its activities in the drug trade in a series of articles titled Dark Alliance. Gary was working for the San Jose Mercury News at the time and wrote the series the explosion of crack cocaine on the streets in Los Angles which coincided with the Iran-Contra affair. Ronald Reagan wanted to fund the Contra's, however Congress refused and so the CIA funded the program in other ways. Gary was viciously attacked in the media and eventually lost everything as a result of his work, including his marriage. Despite the common belief that Gary was murdered due to the fact that he had two bullet wounds to his head, Michael Ruppert, who also committed suicide for similar reasons, provides convincing evidence to the contrary.
Following is a small sampling of resources for further study.
- Jeremy Kuzmarov on the history of the CIA
- CIA Air Operations in Laos, 1955-1974 - Central Intelligence Agency
- Why did the US really invade Afghanistan? | ANC Report
- CIA Drug Dealing - LewRockwell.com
- CIA Jet Crashed With 4 Tons Of Cocaine On Board AnonHQ
- CIA Plane in Big Aussie-American Heroin Bust | MadCow
- "Afghan drug trafficking brings US $50 billion a year" - RT America
- Another Record Breaking Year for Opium Production in U.S. Occupied Afghanistan
- Arrest of 4 Mexican Generals linked to downed CIA drug plane
- Celerino Castillo - Wikispooks
- 2006 Mexico DC-9 drug bust - Wikispooks
- Secret Heartbeat Of America: The CIA And Drugs (1999)
- Crashed Jet Carrying Cocaine Linked to CIA | Dissident Voice
- Crack The CIA (2001 Sundance Winner)
- Cocaine, Heroin, Cannabis, Ecstasy: How Big is the Global Drug Trade? - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Research on Globalization
- CIA/Drug trafficking - Wikispooks
- Cocaine, Heroin, Cannabis, Ecstasy: How Big is the Global Drug Trade? - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Research on Globalization
- CIA-DRUGS
- The CIA As Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World : Douglas Valentine
- Dispelling the Rumors: Gary Webb's Death Confirmed As Suicide : Indybay
- Dark Shadows: Iran-Contra, Secret Wars & Covert Operations, Part 1 - WhoWhatWhy
- Dark Alliance: The Story Behind the Crack Explosion
- The Dark Allience - Gary Webb / SJMN Series
- Republic Broadcasting Network » DEA Insider Reveals How Agency Protects Drug Trafficking For The Elite
- Deep History and the Global Drug Connection, Part 5: CIA In Latin America - WhoWhatWhy
- Daniel Hopsicker
- The CIA Drug ConnectionIs as Old as the Agency - The New York Times
- Funding the Afghan Taliban | The World from PRX
- How Opium is Keeping US in Afghanistan: CIA's Shady History of Drug Trafficking | MEDIA ROOTS - Reporting From Outside Party Lines
- CIA Drug Trafficking Evidence - ULTIMATE COLLECTION
- North Korea Is A Major Opium Producer, Making It A Prime Target For The CIA
- Real Life Air America: CIA Exposed Running a Covert Drug Smuggling Airline
- Snow Job: U.S. Air Force Flies Cocaine from Costa Rica to Miami | Costa Rica Star News
- Ted Gunderson Interviews Beau Abbott Confessions Of A CIA Drug Runner : Ted Gunderson, Beau Abbott
- Terry Reed - Wikispooks
- The Mena Connection : Terry Reed
- Guns, Drugs and the CIA : WGBH Educational Foundation., WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), PBS Video, Judy Woodruff
- Secrets of the CIA - Documentary (oldy from tv)
- World's opium source destroyed | World news | The Guardian
- US-Sponsored Drug-Plane Operation Had Global Reach | the narcosphere
- The Warning in Gary Webb's Death | Consortiumnews