DARK ALLIANCE: THE CIA, THE CONTRAS, AND THE CRACK COCAINE EXPLOSION

Book ID/图书代码： 12070010B40077

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Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1996年，Gary Webb以刊登於《San Jose Mercury News》報上名為《Dark Alliance》的系列文章震驚世界。他深入調查古柯鹼輸入美國的管道根源，卻發現舊金山灣區的販毒集團銷售數以噸計的古柯鹼給洛杉磯街頭幫派，其中數百萬的獲利進到尼加拉瓜反抗軍Contras的手裡。而尼加拉瓜反抗軍Contras親美，是美國中央情報局CIA撐腰，用以對抗尼加拉瓜政權。但古柯鹼輸入美國這麼多年，CIA對此不但瞭若指掌，而且從不阻止。

此時已是網路時代，Gary Webb的文章如野火般傳佈，《San Jose Mercury News》的網站一天能有將近百萬的點閱率，政府、主流媒體都壓抑不了消息傳遞，因此，最好的作法就是抹黑Gary Webb。

各家報章雜誌群起攻擊Gary Webb，《San Jose Mercury News》報承受不了壓力，停止調查此事，Gary Webb被迫辭職，被新聞界放逐，工作與家庭兩頭空。2004年12月，49歲的Gary Webb因頭部中槍身亡，被判定為自殺。

但中央情報局在民間壓力下做的內部調查顯示，除了澄清CIA並無介入毒品交易外，Gary Webb的報導皆為屬實。

本書為當時報上報導的深入研究，資料更豐富，包含CIA司法部內部調查報告、美國移民局(INS)、FBI、美國緝毒署(DEA)機密資料，美國緝毒署(DEA)與毒品走私者有密切合作的證據等。
(Eva)

Awards/获奖情况：相關電影《Kill the Messenger》將於2014年上映
由「鷹眼」傑瑞米雷諾主演，邁克爾·科斯塔（Michael Cuesta）導演,相關訊息: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216491/
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Ray-Liotta-Helps-Whistleblower-Jeremy-Renner-Kill-Messenger-39051.html

Winner of the 1999 PEN/Oakland Censorship Award

Winner of the 1999 Firecracker Alternative Bookseller (FAB) Award, Politics category

Finalist for the 1999 Bay Area Book Reviewers Awards

Reviews

"…a densely researched, passionately argued, acronym-laden 548-page volume." —Michael Massing, The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review

"I find his argument to be very well documented, very careful and very convincing. In fact, the readability of the book suffers a bit from what seems to have been a fear that if he didn’t include absolutely every bit of evidence he had unearthed, he would open himself up to new criticisms of inadequate reporting—but this editor’s quibble shouldn’t stop anyone from buying and reading Dark Alliance. Long-time followers of the contra tale are likely to find new revelations in the book…" —Jo Ann Kawell, The Nation

出版社編輯感言：
http://www.progressive.org/gary-webb

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/5047/hollywood-s-gary-webb-movie-and-message-big-media-couldn-t-kill

The commentary is starting to trickle in ... soon it will be a flood of coverage of the film "Kill the Messenger" and Gary Webb. I won’t send out every mention, but thought I’d send the first ones ...

ESQUIRE, where Gary had published, put out this great blog post on the 5th:

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_Weekend_9_5_14 (and pasted in below)

In the Omaha World Herald

http://m.omaha.com/go/books-becoming-movies-this-fall/article_c218ba96-2faa-11e4-9569-0017a43b2370.html?mode=jqm

and picked up in the Roanoke Times

http://www.roanoke.com/fall-brings-wave-of-book-to-film-adaptations/article_67dbb275-0a2b-5bb5-b036-4d109fb43731.html

About the Author/作者介绍： In 1996, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist GARY WEBB (1955–2004) wrote a shocking series of articles for the San Jose Mercury News exposing the CIA’s link to Nicaraguan cocaine smuggled into the US by the Contras, which had fueled the widespread crack epidemic that swept through urban areas. Webb’s bold, controversial reporting was the target of a famously vicious media backlash that ended his career as a mainstream journalist. When Webb persisted with his research and compiled his findings in the book Dark Alliance, some of the same publications that had vilified Webb for his series retracted their criticism and praised him for having the courage to tell the truth about one of the worst official abuses in our nation’s history. Others, including his own former newspaper and the New York Times, continued to treat him like an outlaw for the brilliant and courageous work he’d done. Webb’s death on December 10, 2004, at the age of 49, was determined to be a suicide.

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