The stories linked below are about two things, the government’s role in supplying cocaine in the US, and the media’s inability and/or refusal to report on the story, which has evolved into a full-fledged cover-up. Now we have moved onto the phase of the cover-up of the cover-up. Or is it the cover-up of the cover-up of the cover-up? There is both more and less to this particular story than appearances suggest.

First, there is far more to it than just its topic, unless one thinks that this was the only incidence of the CIA’s role in smuggling. That is hard to believe, but given the ineptitude of the CIA, that might be possible, if there were not so much evidence to the contrary. One of the things that this story says explicitly is that once individuals start smuggling for the CIA, they continue for their own account. It would be very surprising if it were otherwise. The general pattern of business is for people to take their skills and connections and to go into business for themselves. Their employees do the same, and so on. This is one reason that when the narks succeed in breaking up one group, many more emerge.

The second part of this story is of unknown dimensions because it is still unfolding, or perhaps not unfolding. That is the role of the establishment media in covering up for the CIA. So far, so bad, but so what else is new, and not news?

The Washington Post, the New York Times and the LA Times were active in discrediting Gary Webb’s stories about the CIA’s cocaine business. Will they now do an about face and admit that they were wrong? Not very likely. This week CNN and Time Magazine have admitted that they erred in claiming that the US military used nerve gas in Vietnam. Or did they do what they San Jose Mercury did to Gary Webb, repudiate a valid story? The point of that question is simply that if the media are concerned about their credibility, this is much too little, much too late.

In that sense, there is also less to this story than it might seem.

In the excerpt from "Dark Alliance" linked below Gary Webb talks about the journalist’s dream of his "Big Story." But if Dark Alliance, which is sordid but relatively simple, turned out to be just too big for the comfort of the establishment media, how can they ever begin to report the truth about marijuana prohibition?

The other reason why there is less to this story than it might seem is demonstrated by the fact that Representative Maxine Waters, a prohibitionist, wrote the introduction to Gary Webb’s book. This was probably a necessary tactic to get anyone to listen. The only reason that this story did not get completely lost and buried is that it suited the purpose of the black left. They need to blame the white establishment, which they make a show of opposing, rather than failed policies, which they make a show of supporting, for the disasters that have befallen their underclass constituents.

Representative Waters blames the CIA for the suffering caused by crack. First, the CIA did not create the crack market. It only exploited it. The role of the CIA was shameful, but not pivotal. The crack market was created by prohibition, especially marijuana prohibition, which Waters supports.
See How the Narcs Created Crack

Perhaps the real "sleeper" in all this will be the amazing paragraphs buried in the New York Times story about Timothy McVeigh. There is a very large segment of the alienated white populist movement that should pick-up on this. As this group becomes increasingly anti-prohibitionist it will split the constituencies of both the Republican right and Democratic/Labor left. If nothing else, it will certainly confuse the politicians.