"A Cuban Perspective on Gary Webb"

[Minstrel Boy]

A Cuban Perspective on Gary Webb

Jean Guy Allard
Granma Internacional Staff Writer
Jan 15

Like few journalists before him, Gary Webb exposed the CIA's evil schemes in the drug world and revealed to the US public how the country's black neighborhoods were inundated with crack as part of drug trafficking designed to supply the Nicaraguan Contras with money and weapons.

He exposed narco-terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and his accomplices who were involved in that criminal transaction. And he ended up being shot in his home with two bullets in his face. A suicide, reported the judicial authorities.

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In August, 1996, when he worked at the San José Mercury News, Webb disclosed how the CIA sold tons of crack in Los Angeles neighborhoods and afterwards used the money from this trafficking to finance the operations of the Nicaraguan Contras who were then trying to overthrow Nicaragua's Sandinista government.

His revelations were published in all the Knight-Ridder papers. All of them except the Miami Herald, the paper that has ties with the Cuban-American drug-trafficking terrorist mafia.

http://www.periodico26.cu/english_new/features/gary140105.htm

[Mika]

1. Thanks for posting this

The bushco Nazis continue their ops against Cuba, from the office of James Cason.

Thanks again. :thumbsup:

[Cocoa]

2. Interesting about Porter Goss

When the House of Representatives finally agreed to take up the issue, after a report was issued by the CIA inspector general concerning drug trafficking by the agency, Porter Goss, who had directed the Intelligence Committee since the previous year, decided at a preliminary hearing that the allegations were "false."

[Judi Lynn]

3. Porter Goss: He's a real tool for the Republicans since the early 1960's.

This photograph was taken in a nightclub in Mexico City on 22nd January, 1963. It is believed that the
men in the photograph are all members of Operation 40. Closest to the camera on the left is Felix
Rodriguez. Next to him is Porter Goss and Barry Seal. Tosh Plumlee is attempting to hide his face
with his coat. Others in the picture are Alberto 'Loco' Blanco (3rd right) and Jorgo Robreno (4th right).
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKgoss.htm

The clown lying on the table is sitting next to Porter Goss. Felix Rodriguez, AKA "Max Gomez" is the guy who stole Che Guevara's watch when he was with the group which killed Che Guevara in Bolivia, and he is also a friend of George H. W. Bush. Rodriguez is shown here sitting in the Vice-President's quarters years later with George H. W. Bush.

It's all so damned cozy, isn't it? They've all been thick as thieves for decades.

[Mika]

5. Thanks for posting that pic of worms and slugs

Goss has been in the thick of it for decades. :puke:

[Judi Lynn]

6. Ran across something creepy, Mika, about someone in this photo.

I just tried to find a photo of Barry Seal, seated on the far side of Porter Goss, and found this:



Caption:

BARRY SEAL
was small-time compared to others here, but he was the rubric to many CIA crimes. In the 1980s he flew cocaine and arms between the US (including Mena, AR), Central America, and Colombia; played a key role in the CIA's deal with the Medellin Cartel. He was offed after his cover was blown by the Reagan Admin.

http://www.subliminal.org/mugbook/thugs/seal.html

I didn't know he was missing! They have a fast turnover around these guys, don't they?

[Judi Lynn]

4. Thanks for providing this information on Gary Webb.

People really need to know what happened to him. This is an excellent article, bringing things to the surface which need to be examined. From the article:

In their book Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, journalists from the well known web site Counterpunch, detailed how Webb was the victim of a veritable campaign aimed at destroying his reputation. The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times distinguished themselves in this dirty work.

"The attack on Gary Webb and his series in the San Jose Mercury News remains one of the most venomous and factually inane assaults on a professional journalist's competence in living memory. In the mainstream press he found virtually no defenders, and those who dared to stand up for him themselves became the object of virulent abuse and misrepresentation."

Webb resigned from San José Mercury News in 1997. You could no longer read his work in any well known newspaper.

It's so easy to grasp now, isn't it? May he rest in peace. May his sacrifice create important results which will eventually help get our country out of the hands of these criminals.




http://www.parascope.com/mx/articles/garywebb/garyWebbSpeaks.htm

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