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IN MEMORY 1955 - 2004

Dark Alliance
Cocaine pipeline financed rebels: Evidence points to CIA knowing of high-volume drug network
Gary Webb, San Jose Mercury News, Aug. 22, 1996

Gary Webb: Do What He Did
Al Giordano, Narconews

Gary Webb: A hero of authentic journalism
Anthony Lappe, GNN

Gary Webb, RIP
No thanks to the L.A. Times
Marc Cooper, LA Weekly

Trashed by the CIA’s Claque
Gary Webb: a Great Reporter
Alexander Cockburn and Jeffery St. Clair, Counterpunch

Why They Hated Gary Webb
Alexander Cockburn and Jeffery St. Clair, Counterpunch

How Webb Saved My Ass from the FBI
Gary Webb was the Real Deal
Bill Conroy, Counterpunch

I Knew It Was the Truth and That’s What Kept Me Going
My Last Talk with Gary Webb
Richard Thieme, Counterpunch

A Giant Falls
Press accounts fail to mention his vindication by CIA Inspector General reports and congressional investigations
Michael C. Ruppert, From the Wilderness

The Pariah
“Two years ago, Gary Webb wrote a series of articles that said some bad things about the CIA. The CIA denied the charges, and every major paper in the country took the agency’s word for it. Gary was ruined. Which is a shame, because he was right.”
Charles Bowden, Esquire

Gary Webb’s recent work archive
Sacramento News and Review