"…Webb’s death was listed as a suicide, but Webb was found with two bullet holes in the head…In the days leading up to his death, Webb had told friends that he was receiving death threats, being regularly followed by what he thought were government agents, and that he was concerned about strange individuals who were seen breaking into and leaving his house.

In the late 1990s, Webb had written a series of stories for the San José Mercury News, which provided the basis for his book, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1998).

In it, Webb detailed how the explosion of crack cocaine in South Central Los Angeles during the 1980s was sparked by two Nicaraguan émigrés, Danilo Blandón and Norwin Meneses, who sold huge amounts of cocaine to raise funds for a CIA-backed rebel army—the Contras…"

  • @Shrike502
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    71 year ago

    You know how bourgeoisie purposefully atomize and divide the working class, setting them against one another in order to cement their power? What you’ve described is just a more obvious example. Nobody wants to get suicided by CIA. And the thought of collective action, of successful collective action especially seems just utterly alien