Published at: 03/12/2025 09:00 PM

• In 1996, Gary Webb, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner as an investigative journalist, revealed files that demonstrated how the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) hired local drug traffickers to sell massive quantities of crack and cocaine within the United States.
• The purpose of the CIA's covert operation was to obtain funds, not traceable, to finance terrorist organizations that tried to overthrow the legitimately elected government of Nicaragua, which came to power through the Sandinista Revolution, on July 17, 1979.
• This rise in crack drug addiction in the poor neighborhoods of South Los Angeles meant that Webb spent more than a year researching and visiting the places where this pandemic was emerging, documenting the steps of the CIA in the areas where the explosion of mass consumption occurred; which decimated the Afro-descendant and Latino youth population of this and several large cities in the United States.
• Webb's research was published in a series of reports that were later condensed into his book “Dark Alliances”, based on documents later corroborated by research panels of the U.S. Congress.
• Webb, twice journalist of the year, traced the procedures of a crack distribution thread in San Francisco that, in connection with the CIA, sent millions of dollars to the rebel group Los Contras.
• In addition, it demonstrated how the government of Ronald Reagan, through this covert CIA operation, was directly responsible for addicting hundreds of thousands of people of African descent, causing the death of hundreds of them.
• In retaliation, the Reagan administration secretly ordered a hunger siege to be applied to the whistleblower journalist.
• Gary Webb, now considered a legend of investigative journalism worldwide, after practicing his profession for 25 years and winning multiple awards, the main newspapers in Los Angeles closed their doors. He spent years unemployed.
• Mysteriously. Seven years after uncovering the CIA's rotten pot, Webb was found dead in his house with two shotgun shots in the face. On the door of the house there was a note warning about the fateful event, whose handwriting did not match that of the “suicide”.
• Both local police and federal authorities immediately declared the case closed, without any investigation.

Background:

• Frank Rudolf Olson, a scientist and spy for the CIA, known in laboratories for the construction of chemical weapons of mass destruction, was working on the development of a powerful drug conceived by Sidney Gottlieb, Head of the MK-Ultra Project, to control the minds of entire societies or peoples (social engineering).
• In the early morning of November 28, 1953, Olson's body flew out the window of a room on the eighth floor of a hotel in Manhattan.
• Initially, the hypothesis was accepted that Olson had ingested an overload of the potent substance he developed and as a side effect he threw himself into the void.
• In 1973, 20 years later, through Presidential Executive Order 12333, all the CIA files were brought to light.
• Once they were declassified, the truth came out. Olson was used as a laboratory rat. The U.S. government admitted that on several occasions, large doses of the hallucinogen LSD (chemical weapon of war) had been administered to him without his consent.
• The CIA decided, that night of the alleged suicide, to give him an even larger dose and throw him out the window.
• The Gerald Ford government, in order to allay the scandal caused by the declassification of this murder, offered, in the presence of his relatives, an apology for the abominable crime of the CIA.
• To keep quiet, the family was granted a series of privileges, including compensation of $750,000 (equivalent today to $14 million).
• Sidney Gottlieb, known as “The CIA Torturer”, carried out, between 1946 and 1972, similar chemical warfare tests with thousands of other people chosen as laboratory rats to be subjected to the most unspeakable experiments on human beings.
• Both in the United States and in Canada, Gottlieb murdered thousands of his unfortunate victims, chosen for such purposes among patients imprisoned in public sanatoriums or recruited on the streets in a situation of begging or prostitution.
• The sanatoriums and detention centers of the MK-Ultra Project experiments were known as “The Chambers of Terror”.
• Gottlieb, after being subjected to severe interrogation by the Investigative Commission of the United States Congress, and his guilt verified, died at the age of 80, protected by the powerful law firms that the agency hired for his defense.
• It also came to light how the CIA infiltrated 17 youth groups in New York and as many others in other cities. As part of the project, it used them to proliferate the consumption of various types of drugs tested in its headquarters.

Mazo News Team