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A disturbing look at 10 events not taught in schools when studying the history of the United States.
Here is number 5 on the list.... CIA under Reagan running drugs to raise money for the Contras.
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During the 1980s, the CIA facilitated the sale of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army.
Its convoluted and complex, but its true.
Gary Webbs book Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion outlines how CIA-backed Contras smuggled cocaine into the U.S. and then distributed crack to Los Angeles gangs, pocketing the profits. The CIA directly aided the drug dealers to raise money for the Contras.
This drug network, Webb wrote in a 1996 San Jose MercuryNews article, opened the first pipeline between Colombias cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles, a city now known as the crack capital of the world. The cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America . . . and provided the cash and connections needed for L.A.s gangs to buy automatic weapons.
Worth pointing out: On December 10, 2004, Webb committed suicide under suspicious circumstances, namely the fact that he used two bullets to shoot himself in the head.
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http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/05/20/10-conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-true/