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Premium Episode 29: The CIA vs Gary Webb (Sample)

QAA Podcast

Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

News

4.54.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Gary Webb resurfaced the Iran Contra scandal in 1996 by publishing a 3-part piece entitled "Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion." We examine the massive backlash he received from mainstream news outlets, the veracity of Webb's claims, the inside story of the CIA's PR operations, and Gary Webb's eventual death. Go to patreon.com/qanonanonymous and subscribe for 5 bucks a month — you'll get the full episode + all of the premium ones we've already recorded + a new one every week! Thanks a lot for supporting us.

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0:00.0

Welcome listeners to the 29th Premium Chapter of the QAnonymous Podcast, the Gary

0:20.9

Web vs the CIA episode.

0:23.4

As always, we are your host, Jake Rockatansky, Julian Fields, and Travis Vue.

0:28.0

Gary Web is an investigative journalist who rocketed to national fame when in 1996,

0:33.9

he published a three-part article entitled Dark Alliance, the story behind the crack

0:39.0

explosion.

0:40.2

The piece was a 20,000-word expose that dug into the Iran Contra scandal, and it's a

0:45.8

ledged connection to the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic that ravaged black working class communities

0:50.9

in California.

0:52.4

Travis will kick off the episode by exploring how the publication of Dark Alliance led to

0:56.9

a massive shitstorm in the media and, eventually, the untimely death of Gary Web.

1:03.1

This will be followed by Julian's segment covering the CIA's reaction to the allegations

1:07.5

in Web's piece, including a pile of recently released materials that have shed more light

1:12.4

on the agency's retaliatory PR strategy.

1:18.2

Gary Web's Dark Alliance series with Travis Vue.

1:23.2

Before Gary Web published the reporting that would make him famous in 1996, he was already

1:27.9

a seasoned investigative reporter.

1:30.3

Web's first major investigative work appeared in 1980 when the Cincinnati Post published

1:35.7

The Colt Connection, a 17-part series.

1:39.4

The series examined the murder of a coal company president with ties to organized crime,

1:44.0

and won him the National Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for reporting for a small

1:48.7

newspaper.

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