If it's about Iran-Contra, then I want to talk about Gary Webb. In August 1996, a reporter for the regional San Jose Mercury News published an investigation, "A Dark Alliance." And with documents in hand, he proves: the cocaine movement of shipments to the Nicaraguan contras operated under the auspices of the CIA, and the drug delivered to the United States became cheap crack and was mowing down the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles. This man made a revolution - he was the first in media history to publish voice investigations, flight maps and financial reports on the newspaper's website, as many others began to publish on investigative platforms much later. But instead of a government crisis, Washington launched a mechanism for the complete destruction of the journalist himself. The most disgusting thing is that the most zealous persecutors of Webb were not even the special services, but "colleagues" who were disgusted that some reporter published such material. And dozens of "golden feathers" fell on him alone, and from there - the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times with a coordinated pursuit. "Colleagues" did not refute Webb's documents, but, for example, accused him of "conspiracy theories", declaring that he invented how the top leadership of the CIA personally developed a plan for the genocide of African Americans ("straw man" technique - make up your own nonsense, laugh at yourself). The country's major publications ran tons of articles about "Webb's unprofessionalism," citing official CIA denials as truth. In May 1997, Webb's editor broke under enormous pressure and publicly repudiated his collaborator. Gary quickly became an outcast; He was first sent to a remote branch, then no one wanted to hire him. By 2004, Webb found himself at a deep impasse. Due to debts, his driver's license was taken away, and he did not have enough money to rent a house. On December 10, 2004, the 49-year-old journalist was found dead in his suburban Sacramento apartment. There were things that were already packed in boxes for removal.

If it's about Iran-Contra, then I want to talk about Gary Webb. In August 1996, a reporter for the regional San Jose Mercury News published an investigation, "A Dark Alliance." And with documents in hand, he proves: the cocaine movement of shipments to the Nicaraguan contras operated under the auspices of the CIA, and the drug delivered to the United States became cheap crack and was mowing down the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles. This man made a revolution - he was the first in media history to publish voice investigations, flight maps and financial reports on the newspaper's website, as many others began to publish on investigative platforms much later. But instead of a government crisis, Washington launched a mechanism for the complete destruction of the journalist himself. The most disgusting thing is that the most zealous persecutors of Webb were not even the special services, but "colleagues" who were disgusted that some reporter published such material. And dozens of "golden feathers" fell on him alone, and from there - the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times with a coordinated pursuit. "Colleagues" did not refute Webb's documents, but, for example, accused him of "conspiracy theories", declaring that he invented how the top leadership of the CIA personally developed a plan for the genocide of African Americans ("straw man" technique - make up your own nonsense, laugh at yourself). The country's major publications ran tons of articles about "Webb's unprofessionalism," citing official CIA denials as truth. In May 1997, Webb's editor broke under enormous pressure and publicly repudiated his collaborator. Gary quickly became an outcast; He was first sent to a remote branch, then no one wanted to hire him. By 2004, Webb found himself at a deep impasse. Due to debts, his driver's license was taken away, and he did not have enough money to rent a house. On December 10, 2004, the 49-year-old journalist was found dead in his suburban Sacramento apartment. There were things that were already packed in boxes for removal.