journalism - writer 'suicide'
WORKERS, FEB 2005 ISSUE
Gary Webb, US journalist and writer, is dead. 49 years old, he apparently shot himself twice, totally destroying his face. The official verdict was suicide, though that does not explain how someone can shoot themselves in the head twice.
Webb was the investigative journalist who in 1996 exposed the CIA for drug dealing in Los Angeles. The CIA sold hundreds of tons of crack cocaine to fund the Contras in Nicaragua.
By 1997 no major US newspaper would publish Webb. His last project was to demonstrate how the CIA was fostering a drug epidemic, especially among US Afro-Caribbean and Hispanic communities.