“What you saw in the Iran Contra hearings was the exposure of the beginnings of a national security state which believes it has the right to over-ride the Constitution of the United States in the name of national security.”

Sound familiar?

This documentary features interviews with government insiders and CIA agents who aren’t afraid to expose the truth about what happened. This short video was narrated by the late Elizabeth Montgomery.

Related links:

Dark Alliance, by Gary Webb. How the CIA imported cocaine into Los Angeles to fund its wars against Communism.

Articles downloaded from the web site of the Seattle Times, since the San Jose Mercury News has removed the entire series from their web site.

Gary Webb’s career as a professional journalist was destroyed shortly after these articles were published.

Gary Webb died from a suicide. Shot himself twice in the head with a .38 caliber pistol. The “Dark Alliance” investigation, even though all its facts have been borne out since then, basically ruined his career. All the major news organizations blacklisted him. What does this tell you about independence in the media?

To this day independent reporters have taken up his mantle to investigate the leads and interview different players in the scandal, and they continue to corroborate that what he wrote was the truth.

Gary Webb “Suicide”