imageHead of CIA, resigned before any charges were placed.
image“A series of expose articles in the San Jose Mercury-News by reporter Gary Webb told tales of a drug triangle during the 1980s that linked CIA officials in Central America, a San Francisco drug ring and a Los Angeles drug dealer. According to the stories, the CIA and its operatives used crack cocaine--sold via the Los Angeles African-American community--to raise millions to support the agency's clandestine operations in Central America.”
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imagePlans about the drug planes
imagePolice Officers cracking down on drug usage in 1980's Los Angeles
imageKey evidence against the CIA "vanished"
imagePalmer receives over $300,000.00 from the Nicaraguan Humanitarian Aid Office, by Oliver North, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Elliott Abrams, and CIA officer Alan Fiers -- to ferry supplies to the contras.
imageTransported drugs funded by the CIA
image“On October 3, 1996, LA County Sheriff Sherman Block ordered a fourth investigation into Webb's claims that a 1986 raid on Blandón's drug organization by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department had produced evidence of CIA ties to drug smuggling and that this was later suppressed.”
imageAuthor who later died of "suicide by 2 gunshot wounds to the head, even though he had a loving family.