1996 CIA Director town hall meeting regarding allegations that the CIA was working with the cocaine industry to bankroll Contra rebels in Nicaragua. In 1996, journalist Gary Webb unloaded a three-part series for The San Jose Mercury-News alleging that the Central Intelligence Agency helped spark America’s crack cocaine epidemic by enabling drug traffickers tied to the Nicaraguan Contras to ship into the country and use the proceeds to fund their insurgency against the Sandinista government. Published on the Mercury-News’ website, thereby making it available to all, the series, “Dark Alliance,” became one of the first viral news pieces of the Internet era. <br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/mov.." target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/mov..</a>.<br /><a href="https://en.wiki2.org/wiki/Gary_Webb" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://en.wiki2.org/wiki/Gary_Webb</a><br /><a href="https://en.wiki2.org/wiki/Oscar_Danil.." target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://en.wiki2.org/wiki/Oscar_Danil..</a>.<br />