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More than a decade would pass before a San Jose Mercury News reporter, Gary Webb, reported a bizarre and devastating link between a CIA cover-up and the explosion of crack cocaine in South L.A. According to Webb, the sale of crack in my neighborhood was funding a war three thousand miles away by, astonishingly, arming the U.S.-backed Contra rebels in Nicaragua. The way it worked, he explained, was that the CIA facilitated massive amounts of cocaine to be flown into Los Angeles, with the same planes returning to Nicaragua stocked with weapons.
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