Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the PressA shocking expose of the CIA's role as drug baron, "White-Out" surveys the violent storm provoked by a series of articles written by Gary Webb for the "San Jose Mercury News" which charged the agency with smuggling cocaine into the U.S. for the purpose of undermining the youth in black urban neighborhoods. |
Contents
Webbs Big Story | 1 |
Counterattack | 29 |
The History of Black Paranoia | 63 |
Introducing the CIA | 95 |
Luckys Break | 115 |
Nazi Science Heads West | 145 |
Klaus Barbie and the Cocaine Coup | 167 |
Dr Gottliebs House of Horrors | 189 |
Vietnam and Laos | 235 |
Making Afghanistan Safe for Opium | 255 |
The CIA Drugs and Central America | 277 |
Mena | 317 |
Mexico | 347 |
The Uncoverup | 385 |
Index | 395 |
China Burma and the CIA | 215 |
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