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       Webb’s death was listed as a suicide, but Webb was found with two bullet holes in the head, indicating that he was executed.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 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.Webb was a Pulitzer Prize winner whose “Dark Alliance” series went viral in the early days of the internet. It caused a firestorm that led to the resignation of CIA Director John Deutch after he was grilled by angry Black activists at a meeting in L.AWebb was in turn banished to a small Mercury News bureau in Cupertino, California, south of San Francisco—125 miles from his home and family in Sacramento—and forced to write stories normally assigned to cub reporters. His career was effectively destroyed and he would never again get a job with a daily newspaper.Webb stood by his research, nevertheless, and continued to expose corruption as a freelance journalist. Some speculate this is what got him killed.  Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/war-on-drugs-be-the-change/nineteen-years-ago-journalist-gary-webb-was-murdered-after-exposing-cia-drug-trafficking