Did the CIA Actually Sell Crack in the 1980s? | The War On Drugs

The rumours have circulated for decades. Did the CIA flood the inner cities of the US with crack cocaine in the 1980s? Was the American government actually responsible for the crack epidemic?
Often dismissed as a conspiracy theory, but passionately believed by huge sections of the population - the idea that US intelligence agencies knowingly protected drug traffickers and played a role in bringing cocaine into the US is one of the most often repeated stories of the War on Drugs.
But what is the truth to these allegations? It turns out the real story is perhaps even stranger than the street-level gossip.
This is how one reporter exposed a web of CIA cover-ups, and how the rest of the media destroyed him for doing so.
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[@VICE]

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[@Astroteolog]

Yes they did❗

[@herbert633]

did they figure out how to pronounce "Nicaragua" in the spanish dub?

[@kwilj]

Claro que me gustaría ver el video en español...pero depende MUCHO como pronuncian el Nicaragua

[@aidanafshar8744]

CIA - "I mean......If we don't do it, somebody else will."

[@cloudy_xDD]

“How are we supposed to trust the CIA to investigate.. THEMSELVES?” She’s got a point!

[@gloriawatson2094]

Racism and hate is deep rooted.

[@wa1ufo]

Letting the fox into the chicken coop!

[@qua7771]

Trust a spy/ propaganda organization?

[@MakeLivesHappen]

SNOWFALL SPOILERS

[@user-rt9zq8rs9k]

JFK began the elimination of the CIA and got rid of the evil ILLEGAL company bank system The Federal Reserve when the American Military Industrial Complex , the CIA and the FBI all joined forces to blame Lee Harvey Oswald for the assassination of JFK .

[@koreanenemy4577]

Vice: “Did the CIA sell crack?” The CIA: “Yeah lmao”

[@w0rloko]

The CIA: "What are you gonna do about it?"

[@tinychum203]

The CIA:"My Bad" Obama:Hold My Beer

[@jonathanblount6437]

They literally said they didn't sell them, but rather allowed drug traffickers to operate with impunity. There is a difference.

[@StoneCoolds]

The cia: dud, americans wanted so much drugs that we had to step in cuz the 3rd world countries just couldn't keep up with the demand

[@thepatriot1613]

This is why we can't trust the U.S. government anymore or any government for that matter, just ask the now defunct Afghan government.

[@CristiandlfDeval]

Crack addiction actually destroyed my life. I started doing drugs since my teenage, got addicted to Crack. spent my whole life fighting Crack addiction. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.

[@Ronkaja]

Amen God bless people. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health.

[@Bastianbishops]

Can you help me with the reliable source 🙏. I'm 56 and have suffered for years with addiction, anxiety and severe ptsd, I got my panic attacks under control myself years ago and they have come back with a vengeance, I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't get the full satisfying breath out, it's absolutely crippling me, i live in Germany. I don't know much about these mushrooms. Really need a reliable source!! Can't wait to get them

[@SusanaGomez-mp8sk]

Yes sure of Dr.benfungi

[@BrownGeorge-pw2xo]

I hate that some persons still grouped psilocybin with drugs like cocaine and heroin. Mushrooms are a remedy, not a vice! I went on a microdose treatment for a couple of months and within the first week, every sight of a cigarette got me questioning why I was doing all that to myself. It really works.

[@PriscillaLogan-by9ll]

How do I reach out to him? Is he on insta

[@Sigmacum97]

It was Reed Thompson who Sold coke in the 80s, he worked alongside Franklin Saint.

[@LamarKing215]

😂

[@Rlz510]

😂😂😂

[@TheKuzuri]

Rumors says reed thompsons real name was "Teddy Mcdonald"

[@isaacdiale415]

😂 I'm here from Snowfall

[@briangeschwindner6201]

😂

[@REDACTED1917]

CIA: "Well we investigated ourselves and conclude that we did nothing wrong."

[@ricklopez7151]

Exactly!!!

[@iwantwinnersproduxtions]

Kinda like, We Pfizer have tested our vaccine and yea it is safe

[@josephlee5654]

CIA was on crack

[@ankursoni65]

@@iwantwinnersproduxtions Pfizer has valid data and studies verified by health agencies to prove its effectiveness. The cia doesnt

[@G.Bfit.93]

@@ankursoni65 it doesn't real world non corporate studies have disproven their efficacy and ability to prevent transmission those "studies" are about as useful as the "studies" debunking climate change by oil companies and "studies" proving atrazine safe by syngenta and "studies" proving cigarettes safe by tobacco industry

[@h2oGiovanni]

"He died by suicide in 2004" >Shot himself in the head TWICE Oh okay.

[@dpedreno]

There's an important Portuguese poet (the kind you study in school) that committed suicide the same way. Not sure how that goes, I'm guessing nerves. I'm also guessing it's the US, so everything goes, but then again, he had been discredited for a long time, his death only dug up the whole story again. If he was killed, whoever thought that plan up is an idiot.

[@Dong_Harvey]

Twice in the back of the head, execution style.. One of those execution-suicides that LEOs are fond of botching

[@ScotianBlooded]

not unheard of the human body can withstand a lot

[@oscargoldman6689]

@@Dong_Harvey yeah thats a huge thing, twice in the back of the head

[@Scamp2x]

@First Last lemme see you try

[@nosidenoside2458]

Weird how large newspapers defended the government instead of looking into a possible once-in-a-lifetime story. Funny how that goes.

[@caljohnson1126]

Operation Mockingbird….CIA runs the media

[@Haraambe]

The news is the government and the government is the news

[@jasondashney]

I'm shocked. Shocked I say! As as for the "nobody went to jail" part, I'm equally 'shocked'.

[@baileyclark8710]

Ita funny how the war on drugs has disappeared and my opinion is they finally got enough of payoff to let it happen without drugs tons of jobs and companies that the government owns most of thier stocks wouldn't have a need to be around.

[@violetsrayreikishop2]

That's because they're bought and controlled by the CIA, people need to realize journalism been dead for a long time everything in those papers and mainstream news is propaganda look at the war between Russia and Ukraine the CIA did a coup in Ukraine in 2014 and put a dictator in office this set a lot of things in motion plus the gave the nazis there power that already hate anyone that isn't Ukrainian they're nationalist so they prepared them to start war by attacking the Donbas Russian speaking population and attacking Crimea and Russia putin tried to get them to abide by the minsk agreement they refused so he went to the UN etc nothing thanks to America and its nato allies yet we're told putin started it and wants to invade other countries to bring back the ussr which is bs, he has said the USSR was something that shouldn't have existed. He after Ukraine to get them to come to negotiations and free the southern region that doesn't wanna be apart of Ukraine after being bombed for 8 years nonstop and keep Ukraine neutral as a buffer between Russia and nato.

[@keithgray4891]

One of the most devastating drugs ever manufactured… I’m pleased i am drug free , for the past 15 years… and yes I was crack addicted 🙏🏿

[@keithgray4891]

@@user-sz6zl5yi5v Thanks 💯

[@petergreen5337]

❤agreed 100%. Thank God you are FREE. We wish you the BEST.

[@gregtaylor7402]

🙏🏾🙏🏾 keep going strong and I agree

[@imacryptid5254]

@@ru_lmaoyeah for real it’s clean now it’s not unhealthy like it used to be.

[@Moufdiz]

@@imacryptid5254wtf are you talking about, what has changed

[@loubega5140]

Vice in 2030: did the CIA sell fentanyl in the US? Answer: yes

[@Boogalyhu]

Literal poison mainly produced by big pharma... makes sense.

[@jaysinner313studios]

Did the us military protect opium fields in Afghanistan yes thats what the war on terror was

[@pak3ton]

you need a problem in order to sell a solution...

[@rayedrama]

🤣🤣🤣

[@h2oGiovanni]

Right LOL

[@shadowbanned3716]

"How are we supposed to TRUST the c.i.a official to investigate THEMSELVES?!" i lol at that. that was the most common sense statement ever

[@ozzyboymelgreen4775]

thats when i gave up in any gov

[@justanotherdayinthelife9841]

The ONLY way we had to police the CIA was via their funding.. Republicans REMOVED that language in the renewal for funds and now the C.I.A. is 100% UNACCOUNTABLE. THANKS Republicans and Corporate Democrats, thank you for being the opposite of what a patriot is and outing yourselves for everyone to see. Defund the cia, defund the police, defund all politics entirely.

[@Ichihiro36]

@@justanotherdayinthelife9841 Traitor or treasonist is probably the word your looking for.

[@Oblivisci........]

@@justanotherdayinthelife9841 While absolutely I agree that these government entities need to be held far more accountable than they are now, literally saying "just defund everything" is probably the worst way to create meaningful change. The result of defunding all of these government entities is asking for even more corruption, producing more crime, making criminals completely aware that less police and ability to respond to crime will create far more crime, ect. And Im not talking about crime like drug dealing Im talking about crime like breaki g and entering, rape, murder, and even worse.

[@abigalanderson7494]

Fisa courts are a joke too

[@TeezyHadaBaby]

Its crazy how EVERYONE knows about it yet the government has never been held accountable. WE out number THEM.

[@santiagolerda435]

They control the military, not much you can do against that

[@TallicaMan1986]

Actually most people don't know about this. They just think the modern black ghetto was always a black ghetto instead of a neighborhood like anywhere else.

[@TeezyHadaBaby]

@@TallicaMan1986 They know, but it didn’t affect them so they don’t care.

[@janzkee]

do we actually lol cause with a press of a button every major country can eradicate us all, why do you think the conflicts between russia and usa are so tense? cause they can literally blow eachother up until theres nothing

[@fratrickmachomes5263]

@@TeezyHadaBabynah. I’m researching all of this rn and I knew gangs were around in the 80s but didn’t know the full extent of what happened and how they turned from basically neighborhood watch to a warzone.

[@jonnyjames862]

1:28 That pronunciation of Nicaragua’s a new one for me

[@alexwiant9426]

Average British pronunciation of a Spanish word

[@glenndouglas8822]

🤣😂 you are spot on there, it's us English pronouncing incorrectly 😁

[@ryanporpora508]

Nicarahhguahh

[@user-kg4zm1ov6r]

It’s So cringey 😂😂😂

[@groovy3443]

He's Br*tish

[@newjack1982]

Being a 80s baby myself born in 1980 I remember how crack hit my hood. Watching responsible mothers and fathers totally abandoned their families. I was lucky because my mom tried it but seen what it was doing to her friends so decided to stop early. My homies weren’t so fortunate. And Gary Webb didn’t commit suicide he was killed by the CIA. YOU CANT SHOOT YOURSELF IN THE HEAD TWICE SMH!

[@terenzogaming2003]

Thank u ain’t no way possible The CIA got him fired cause he was finding out info that would expose them and then they murdered him to keep everything on the 🤫

[@verbalkint1770]

There's a cop who killed his gf then when they were closing in on him he shot himself in the head 2 or 3 times.

[@yilongmusk9665]

Actually it's possible to survive the initial first shot IF you are lucky,and reattempt to finish the job

[@gecgec3409]

Thanks for sharing

[@chillyhead611]

Facts.

[@NooffenceBut_]

"we would like to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs" gives me goose bumps everytime I hear that, it's the definition of a deep multi leveled statement.

[@stevebowldeep69]

i get litterly same feeling everytime :D

[@monke6776]

It’s cringe

[@cmen6895]

@@monke6776 no, not really.

[@monke6776]

@@cmen6895 Yes, incredibly much so. You’ll realize one day

[@garranlilly5380]

@@monke6776 they did win tho

[@sherrydashiell2408]

When crack hit the black community it was devastating I remember I was in college came home visit some friends I didn’t even recognize them they look like someone else that I didn’t even know It was scary and sad that drug broke up a lot of families

[@janejones8672]

I was in Mexico in 1985 and when I returned to the States, I couldn't believe what I saw passing by the black neighborhoods. Shocking 😮

[@cdoe3395]

RIP Gary Webb. A hero who told the truth and was assasinated by the CIA for it

[@MikeBNumba6]

yea when I heard suicide, I'm like "yea right"

[@B3stie17]

@@dukecocko215 what are you on about

[@user-dn8br4bz1q]

Lookup☝️🍄✅ that handle he got DMT LSD psilocybin MDMA 🍄.💊..🔌

[@markgreiser464]

RIP the two Kids killed in Arkansas , for getting to close to the Op. If you haven't heard the Story, it is easy to find. Clinton Goons.

[@bloodbornlink8998]

Gary was true American hero

[@ben8133]

We'd like to congratulate drugs on winning the war on drugs.

[@leelandglover2731]

Lmmfao

[@jaycustom21]

Yea that tripped me out when she said that...I replayed it to hear it again. I wonder why I've never heard that before... because it's really the truth! 💯

[@onlyzah5803]

Aye u got a heart

[@gringa978]

Congrats drugs you crazy sob you actually won!

[@onlyzah5803]

Wait it says that at the end of the vid lol

[@justinchrzanowski1483]

This didn't just happen. It hit the city's like a movie premiere where no one needed tickets.

[@gloriawatson2094]

They planted the drugs in our community, I saw the drop off, white man and black boy duo. No JOBS, yet plenty of drugs and guns. Our youth could not see it, all they saw was the $$$$. Rip to all those affected 🙏 💔 and their families. It really was the start to our society declining or decadence

[@gloriawatson2094]

America now has to read what it has sowed

[@TwinTyphoons]

@@gloriawatson2094dont forget the guns

[@mochtegerndane7097]

I lived in Nicaragua during and after the revolution and I can tell you, that many Nicaraguans were totally and utterly dismayed, when they heard the names of the people manning the contra leadership. Nicaragua was a country of 2,8 million people and everyone knew the names of these Managua gangsters. (Which is also why the Sandinistas got so much support from the normal people - they did NOT want these names to be back in Managua). Imagine how the Americans would have reacted, if an "American Liberation Front" had been formed in Mexico and Canada and the defenders of American democracy would be Sonny Barger, Whitey Bulger and some guy called Genovese.

[@StockHeightChevy603]

You should rename this, “CIA still sells crack since the 1980’s.”

[@bluelife1503]

Nah they moved to fentanyl analogues wooo OD gang

[@electricmail5662]

Exactly and they really don't care about anybody black or white!

[@Dockhead]

@@electricmail5662 what's even funnier is we just all shrug our shoulders and say its okay? no wonder a NWO is incoming.

[@Orcawhale1]

You should perhaps watch the video, because the opposite is actully the case.

[@Hispanicincel]

@@Dockhead what’s nwo

[@tobypickles90]

Was Garfield an orange cat that ate lasagna?

[@eliothealien]

Yeah on my acid trip lmfao 🤣

[@Anita_Backrub]

@@eliothealien Acid he got from the CIA.

[@susiefairfield7218]

HAted Mondays

[@CannondaleF700]

He was human then turned into crack cat

[@theunlimitedpoweroflenny2149]

No

[@jameswestergaard9793]

This is an amazing well put together video about something that affected my childhood greatly. And seeing Jim Norton Interview Freeway Ricky Ross is just a legendary 10 second bit to add to this. Beautiful.

[@jasondashney]

Ricky Ross was on Rogan so you can see a really long form with him if you want.

[@paulleduffjr.5236]

My dad told me this when i was a child, its crazy how i thoight he was reaching.

[@LJDS1979]

"Dark Alliance, the CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion" by Gary Webb. A must read.

[@unitedstatesirie7431]

who do you think makes the pharmaceutical drug commercials in the USA ? The CIA takes orders from the 666 son of perdition that lives in Italy.

[@WolverineTraining]

He was suicided.

[@LJDS1979]

@@WolverineTraining Yep

[@WolverineTraining]

If you follow the money. Crack sold in Compton, a certain ex presidents saving and loan company bought up Compton, the war on drugs, Compton value goes through the roof. CIA keeps money to fund wars and training at the School of America’s for their mercenaries.

[@nolanwadr]

If Gary Webb was so smart then why is he dead? Good luck answering that one

[@DRightOne4888]

I've got family that are still in jail from the effects of crack. One got 45years. I haven't seen him since I was 18. I'm 55 now. Got a cousin who got off crack after decades of drug addiction. Reagan and Nixon really did a number on the black community. At least two entire generations lost. Thank God we're a resilient bunch.

[@PinkyJujubean]

That was the whole plan all along. It's not exactly a secret that Reagan was an old racist toad. That's why he kicked off his presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi with a speech filled with racial dog whistle terms. That town was significant because it was where three civil rights workers were murdered by the kkk in the 60s. He was the guy carrying the flag for the racists who sadly didn't go away after the civil rights era

[@ljt3084]

Republican Presidents..

[@brianminsk8]

That's right. It was Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon who, together, entered the homes of each member of the crack using black community at the time. Simultaneously, they would each hold a gun to the head of each crack addict, and force them to continue their addiction. Really did a number on that community.

[@taxidriver877]

@@brianminsk8 Nixon's Cabinet member actually did say Nixon targeted the black and brown communities with this scourge. Three strikes was designed to destroy an entire black generation while white drug users and dealer using coke got much lighter sentencing. Now, with meth and fentanyl on the rise in mostly rural white communities, they get actual healthcare and a pat on the behind. The govt is taking action so your folks don't go to jail for lie nor spend decades using these drugs. That's what I'm talking about.

[@OmegaRick]

​@@brianminsk8 Too bad they didn't stop by your house and burn it down with you in it

[@youtubesonlysavior3044]

I thought MADE MY DAY by Lucki was playing at the end lol

[@ShakeTheR00m]

😭

[@matthewcockburn9850]

Short answer: yes. Long answer: yes, yes they did.

[@Unknown-ty9qu]

Makes you wonder, if they did this in the 80's what are they doing now that we will only know about decades later?

[@-ds9938]

Increasing inflation for the elite to buy everything up because normal folks cant afford it. It was never about right or wrong just about maintaining an ancient empire.

[@hossblur1]

Have you missed Coronavirus? How much money and power has the CIA/Government made on that

[@michigansteve4440]

Fentanyl

[@marilynmonheaux6356]

Misinformation campaigns so nobody believes anybody. The perfect answer for the fact that anything can be filmed.

[@damiansosa4987]

they push carts and sissy femboy waves

[@Atlastheyote222]

CIA: *sells crack in low income areas Also CIA: “we have a crack epidemic and we need to stop it”

[@Orcawhale1]

Did you even watch the video? It clearly states the opposite.

[@micheleberg4922]

@N.A.R (NEW AGE REPUBLICAN PARTY) what do you mean not true, we’re you not alive around that time? THEY LITERALLY ADMITTED TO IT!

[@micheleberg4922]

@N.A.R (NEW AGE REPUBLICAN PARTY) tell me you didn’t watch the whole video without telling me

[@blowc1612]

Exactly! So guess what? They’ll get the money they need to send troops and operate in South America to control it in the disguise of Drug War to the world.

[@sadface6635]

Along with keeping black people from acquiring wealth and economic growth in cities, this was also a way to incriminate and put black people in prisons for forced labor, which continues to this day.

[@kontrast4361]

Its unhealthy but i like to imagine through all this chaos John Deutch acting like Avery Bullock from American Dad 😂😂

[@nonnoyobisnis8705]

You forgot to mention that Webb killed himself with two (two) gunshots to his head, but that's just a minor detail. Otherwise, great job!

[@mcnally211]

He was " suicided"

[@souhung69]

they killed himself

[@nathangage9443]

Oh yah just that “minor” detail 😅

[@IronPsyde]

That is bull. He was just trying to finish the job. Now three shots would be suspicious…

[@Blackronin357]

The first one missed motor functions, so that's how he got the second one off.

[@BootsORiley]

Gary Webb died so that this doesn't need to be a question with any hint of doubt looming over the subject. it's a fact and he backed it up with receipts galore.

[@bottomherout2357]

FACTS . However that's too much for the masses to comprehend if they don't hear it from the local news it ain't true 😂

[@fastlife711]

@@bottomherout2357 So True,lol!

[@why55555]

Psyop scammers in KZbin who swarmed me in 2007 (before I knew my Ex was dead CIA) think it is amusing to use the "Webb" name for their games, apparently. I can't tell if these guys are paid by the Government to spy on Americans or simply grifters. I suspect they ate camouflage games for Big Tech moves they are all profiting from right now. CIA is so in the center of Big Tech takeover games, in my view from Sarasota. Simply my opinion while I'm healing from nurse burnout after 33yr career here.

[@Iamthebeesknees1]

Cool name 🙂

[@Iamthebeesknees1]

I could only watch the first 4 minutes of this! I don't know why I even clicked on it tbh

[@BalgaBear]

"We've investigated ourselves, and found no wrong-doing."

[@Ooshababa]

I like how vice just touched on Gary Webbs "suicide". Didn't really highlight the suspect nature of his "suicide". If I'm not mistaken, Gary Webb: Shot himself in the head. Twice. With a REVOLVER... Using his left hand. Gary Webb was right handed.

[@pickford7812]

When my neighbor shot himself in the head with a semi auto shotgun, I heard 3 shots.

[@Tre16]

@@pickford7812 he was murdered

[@AnimeIsLayfu]

You can't shot your head twice though.

[@pickford7812]

@@AnimeIsLayfu the nervous system doesn't immediately stop, even when half of the brains are removed. The nerves will continue to fire after death

[@letsgojake.4078]

Epstein is just the most recent. Its the same story over and over. Seth Rich.

[@ThisGuy76]

Great...so, can I sue the government for the fact that my parents being addicted to crack when I was a child ruined the rest of my life?

[@earldouglas4645]

No

[@rolandthethompsongunner64]

You’d have to sue the CIA specifically. Good luck with that.

[@johntaranto29]

You Couldn't sue the drug dealer even if he's caught redhanded, let alone the cia This is a good thing, drugs should be legal. You can't sue McDonald's cause momma got fat and croaked, can't sue jack daniels cause daddy crashed his truck and had to go to AA. This may sound harsh, but maybe you should sue the people who held the most responsibility with your upbringing, your parents. Or forgive, break the cycle and be an awesome dad or a generally moral and upstanding citizen.

[@williambeglen4771]

No. Nobody forced them to smoke it. They chose to. Probably, talked into trying it. However, it's not like the CIA had them at gunpoint to smoke it or die. My parents did drugs. It didn't ruin the rest of my life. How did it ruin yours?

[@earldouglas4645]

@@williambeglen4771 back then tymes were hard, people wanted to get high real quick &, fast &, crack is gonna do it, what this it looks likes little pieces of broken 🧼

[@joshswiger7854]

Officially: No Unofficially: HELL YES

[@war.neverchanges]

If they’re publicly backing a drug dealer then no it’s official that they’re corrupt but nothing will happen

[@rajanfellows3343]

That last line “we like to congratulate drugs, for winning the war on drugs,” pretty much sums it up lol.

[@braydenbrayden5]

Hell yeah they did and they still going strong !

[@braydenbrayden5]

Ask freeway Ricky Ross, his whole family will say the government was behind it all !

[@stephoneley6771]

FACTTTSSS!!

[@comptche3972]

Period, many decades many tons.

[@ScoobyShotU]

@@braydenbrayden5 of course they would blame someone else he's not gonna admit he was the one that was destroying his own community lol people believe anything

[@susiefairfield7218]

Yep now its fenty,meth,and heroin

[@asheru9254]

RIP Mr. Garry Webb and thank you for exposing the CIA criminal activities

[@fisherburch5729]

wtf is ur pfp

[@iblazeit420x9]

@@fisherburch5729 lol wtf

[@irishmac7495]

True and he happened to have commit suicide like lots of people who have spoke out about sensitive information

[@johnwalters7415]

Yeah how did he shoot himself 2 times in the head?

[@CenlaSelfDefenseConcepts]

You never want to win the CIA award for excellence in journalism

[@tobe1207]

They had a system, Ronnie used to slice the crack so thin that it would actually liquify in a pan with a little oil and baking soda

[@OfficialLuvQue]

I’ve been watching snowfall, this is no coincidence 😭

[@VishtheFish101]

RIP Garry Webb, American Hero. Also, Webb didn't kill himself.

[@GiancarloFloyd]

Yea most suicide victims don’t shout themselves twice in the head.

[@Calvin704704]

suicided

[@yake222]

that classic suicide method of shooting yourself in the head twice.

[@blablabla6975]

If you start accepting rumors for facts you might as well believe everything on the internet

[@autoeroticasphyxiationsurv9060]

I love how Vice didn’t even bother going into detail about Webbs “suicide”. Fuckin dorks.

[@Travelei]

RIP Gary Webb, A TRUE HERO

[@hehe2352]

Who is Gary web?

[@shadowdude5388]

@@hehe2352 who

[@Nicoricanmarxist]

I can belive that they dont mention that Gary Web was MURDERED by the CIA, NOT A SUICDE!

[@blznft9513]

@@hehe2352 He wrote the article dark alliance on the Miami newspaper linking the CIA to drug trafficking

[@donaldsawyer2618]

That’s terrible!

[@spaceramshow253]

“We’d like to congratulate drugs for winning The war on drugs” is a bar for sure.

[@ghostfacekilla1928]

Snowfall brought me here and I’ve been fascinated by the whole epidemic since

[@toaster4490]

“Died by suicide” lmao he had two bullet wounds in his head and the handgun they found with him had a full magazine +1 clearly showing his gun had never been fired but yes… suicide

[@boxingmotoman]

Source?

[@sizzle7578]

@@boxingmotoman names Gary Webb I think

[@boxingmotoman]

@MannyP Thank you Sir. It boggles my mind that if the media outlets attacked him and used the point and deflect strategy during the time he was alive. But he died and now they would say foul play? There is a conflict of interest when you bring in the news to the masses and no one ever fact checks.

[@niklascarlsson2841]

Maybe he reloaded before he died

[@the13xiii52]

Also the gun was in his weak hand.

[@derrickforeal]

Are politicians known for telling the truth? Nope

[@samanthab1923]

Look at this nonsense with Afganistan now. CIA didn't know what was going to happen? Please.

[@chillen9109]

@Ryan Alex bernies barely an actual socialist, much less a communist so nice try

[@chriscarter4563]

Wait this doesn't work. We need a yes answer for the question posed in the video lol

[@Leveezy]

💥 kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3fTm4pnms6Vjas 💥

[@NickNishikiyama]

Short answer. YES

[@devinlee3069]

“Webb was found dead in his Carmichael home on December 10, 2004, with two gunshot wounds to the head. His death was ruled a suicide by the Sacramento County coroner's office. According to a description of Webb's injuries in the Los Angeles Times, he shot himself with a .38 revolver, which he placed near his right ear. The first shot went through his face, and exited at his left cheek. The coroner's staff concluded that the second shot hit an artery.”-from his wiki Uhhhh the man was murdered.

[@bonnano7872]

Indeed.

[@chesterjade7630]

Wow how do you shoot yourself twice in the head.

[@warrenlewis3977]

How do you shoot yourself twice in the head?

[@squeaky206]

​@@bdog7723Truth be told, the CIA probably shot him and covered it up as a multiple gunshot suicide. Tie up loose ends, you know? There's a reason those investigating the criminal activities of the CIA always suspiciously end up dead: Dorothy Killgalen, John F. Kennedy. And a few others to boot. All martyrs that exposed what the real CIA does: overthrow governments and kill those who speak against its rule.

[@caseybrooks1715]

Because the first one only went through his face. So he did it again

[@johnnyjacuzzi7498]

RIP Gary Webb, and a huge thank you to Robert Parry.

[@orlandoyoung7232]

M The CIA killed him

[@Elias-ub8wk]

@@orlandoyoung7232 who's those people

[@GodsPrototype]

@@Elias-ub8wk q

[@GodsPrototype]

@@orlandoyoung7232 .lllklq

[@gregordrizzlewing7339]

Kill the messenger is a film about Webb

[@Divino_1]

Seeing vice telling actual news is strange.

[@CaseyPrice-lc5di]

We invited to the secret service driving program.

[@orlandomorales8177]

Someone who puts his life at risk for the sake of Truth to be known this is a hero! Rest in peace mr. Webb never forgotten, thank you

[@VaL-ln3im]

Wish we still had this type of journalism today. Now they just push propaganda for coins

[@jamesjansen3057]

Right there alongside Edward Snowden real patriots!!!!

[@bounjamin]

Well said

[@dieauferstehung]

leftist conspiracy theories with no base to reality will be credited but the Liberals being child groomers is literally being called "insane" wake up sheeps the left LIES they are devils advocates

[@ithajean]

Thank you

[@Chantal2468]

Delta Variant: I spread faster Crack in the 80s: Hold my pipe

[@LucyGoosey1315]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@alexwillox1529]

Lolololol

[@jessecantu5130]

I can’t lie I don’t see crack heads down anymore they live until 50 60 unlike these young pill poppers they die at 19

[@Anonymous_________]

Pfizer. . . .

[@fadli_1577]

Wokeness right now : hold my racism

[@GoinGorillaTV-ei6qz]

I already knew this. Snowfall taught me.

[@FireBen31]

I kinda learned from Snowfall

[@bunnylow5753]

As someone that does crack, my dealer is also my CIA agent

[@rons2189]

Unfortunately that's hardly the worst thing they've done

[@julianj9830]

Exactly. There’s some good evidence that they assisted in the assassination of JFK

[@AbdullahKhan-em2ol]

what about taliban, al qaeda?

[@dicktater2122]

Yes

[@dicktater2122]

@@julianj9830 assisted?

[@benjiman818]

9/11

[@LJDS1979]

Former Colonel Oliver North took the fall for this publicly. I vaguely remember the congressional hearings. Of course, he would go on to write NY Times best seller and get his own TV show, while Gary Webb just ended up dead.

[@justinhearst]

He Got the glory because the Conservacucks were so scared of "communism", that they wanted a hero and the same conservatives were trying to distract from the investigation saying it was a waste of money.

[@Blashmack]

@@justinhearst Amen

[@curtisthomas2670]

Good ol'Bill Barr was all up in that covering up sh*t, it was he that advised that Ollie and the others got pardoned

[@tonyjohnson3717]

You mean the tale of Ollie north. I heard there is unrecovered gold hidden somewhere in Langley falls Virginia.

[@NoLyinEvry1sDyin]

Dead with 2 self inflicted gunshot wounds to the dome.. cause that makes sense....

[@RavenKey-hl9ou]

They watch you smoke it in the right place, right time.

[@user-ve8ub6mf8q]

84 i was born and the amount of anti-drug propaganda i was subjected to was total. The whole time it was the US government selling it. unreal

[@erinmcdonald7781]

I knew about this story peripherally at the time, doing a paper on the Iran-Contra scandal in highschool, and then later having a friend who was taken down at the peak of her law career because of the extent of her cocaine addiction. I became interested in Gary Webb's work, and was shocked and saddened by his death. I don't know what the statute of limitations are for what the Agency was doing, but even at this late date, some accountability would send a message. Accountability is something that's been lacking too long in certain segments of our society. Thank you for keeping this story fresh. This needs to be remembered. 💔🤬

[@puremed1oninstagramsellsdr67]

Check them out ⬆️ 🔌…💯,,,,¿,

[@scout3058]

There will never be accountability. That's not how nations stay afloat. Don't be naive.

[@t60-flying95]

all this because "better dead than red" and "stop the domino effect" and other mccarthyism style anti-comunist crap

[@scout3058]

@t60-flying At least we know who the real enemy of the US, and common sense is: you.

[@trent9872]

There will never be accountability because nations care more about fighting their enemies (i.e. Communism in the 80s) than prosecuting CIA agents that looked the other way. Look at Oliver North - he took the fall for the Iran-Contra scandal - where military parts were being sold to Iran in order to give money to the Contras. LOTS of conservatives see him as a hero. He never served time in prison. He got a "suspended prison sentence", parole, and a fine. Heck, the guy had a show on FOX News.

[@alwayscrispy666]

I smoked crack and almost drove myself into oncoming traffic from a big ass hit. Never again. 102 days clean lmao.

[@Xyz66648]

Good for you keep going ❤

[@Ter9393]

Nic-a-rah-gyua killed me 😂

[@Biggle_PeePee]

Nica quere agua 😂

[@LucasGomes-ue8on]

This is why your company is bankrupt

[@dblockbass]

Im surprised there are people that dont know the answer to this this. I had to explain the 80's crack epidemic to my English girlfriend at the time. It sounded like I was describing a movie it was so surreal she couldn't believe it.

[@kevinmccallister4261]

Damn can you try to explain it to me like you did to her?

[@assasinofpapers]

can you also explain it to me while holding me tight and playing with my hair

[@nickdoyle3950]

@@assasinofpapers 😢

[@ivanreese7087]

Now she probably watching snowfall like wtf they stolen your story 🤣

[@blowc1612]

@@ivanreese7087 it’s more of the side story in Narcos.. control South America and not let them fall into communist states.

[@willmartelli6572]

"we'd like to congratulate Drugs, for winning the war on drugs." lol. This is EXACTLY what that show Snowfall is about.

[@viatazine]

such a good show, it’s pretty accurate too

[@dennispodiapolski9763]

Yea I saw this pop up on my YT recommended after watching it lol

[@normanmason3623]

Good job Young Man

[@realcharlesmhall]

Crack is like vitamins compared to fentanyl!!!

[@VICE]

Watch more from this series: Why Mexican Cartels Use American Guns - kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWmbqJ-MjN16sJI

[@themanwnoname3454]

2021(G) “Respect and dignity.” Furthermore:

[@slickrick2420]

@@Zatvornik I think you forgot to switch account, Russian shill

[@siryes2846]

They use them cause we make the best guns in the world. Just like they make the best dope. Seems fitting

[@wudly9195]

Are you people capable of doing a story these days without inserting race Into it ? The CIA sold drugs for *money*, not because they wanted to keep the black community down . They are corrupt, and drug dealing is one of the many things they did. As well as torture, unlawful surveillance of American citizens , and human trafficking .

[@wudly9195]

@@slickrick2420 This video is about the CIA being corrupt , but you believe the bullshit the CIA said about Russia ??? Google irony .

[@TianZhaoHeavenlyFortune]

I think "Did the CIA actually..." should always end with "YES", "Yes they did, yes they have, and yes they more often than not continue to do so"

[@ayushisharma162]

lul 😂😂

[@Dong_Harvey]

Plausible Gluttony

[@james_giant_peach]

Did the CIA actually save millions of people from security threats?

[@TheKos2Kos]

@@james_giant_peach how do you measure that? We do knowthey destroyed generations of people that got into crack for business or pleasure and aided in the downfall of the USA

[@james_giant_peach]

@@TheKos2Kos because the answer to “did the CIA actually” is always yes with this logic. I’m not saying I agree with it but the statement is illogical because you can finish the sentence any way you want.

[@commiezombie2477]

BRUH, Where is "Nicuraguagua"? 😂😂😂

[@drebin178]

To answer the question in the title:yes CIA deals drugs,plenty of them.

[@AmerieFanbase]

if the CIA already introduced MK Ultra, this is clearly smaller than that.

[@OscarsEditing]

CIA was founded by the Nazi's brought over in project paperclip, hence the German spelling of Mind Kontrol

[@rons2189]

I remember when I first learned about operation Northwood. That was the first thing someone told me to look into and I realized just how horrible our intelligence agencies were

[@somefuckingrandom]

@@OscarsEditing the "MK" in MK Ultra doesn't stand for mind kontrol, it was one of the designations that was used for projects sponsored by the technical service staff of the CIA. Ultra being a former title for the most top secret projects. So "MK Ultra" is "the most classified project under the sponsorship of the technical service staff". You will almost never find a secret project that has a name actually related to what the project is about, as naming things that way poses an intelligence risk.

[@blistersonmyfingers9321]

@@somefuckingrandom Operation Invade Canada! It's a secret!

[@_RobBanks]

@@OscarsEditing cia was not founded by operation paper clip. Lol, how is that possible when it’s an operation within the cia? Cia was from OSS

[@GNP3WP3W]

I think it’s important to share that Gary Webb’s “suicide” was from the result of 2 gunshot wounds to the head…

[@Joe-gw9wh]

The back of the head

[@germanmeza5193]

Double jointed wrists and super trigger finger. Yea. Sounds like suicide

[@YGR12five7]

@@germanmeza5193 that's not how it works. You're done as soon as the first bullet goes in. That bullet is much faster than your finger ever could be

[@zackklapman3569]

Odd that Vice would leave that out, no?

[@TheGonzogibby]

@@zackklapman3569 Who owns vice now? I forgot lol

[@austinfinch1795]

I know you meant Nicaragua but the pronunciation had me repeating that over and over again.

[@Jerryobscurethoughts]

I tried crack 3 times. What a waist too short. I chose meth, crack was gone in ten minutes . Meth lasted all day. Sober for years now but still think crack was dumb.

[@minegamer5680]

People: Did you do it? The CIA: Yes People: What did it cost? The CIA: Future of America

[@alfredosenalle9284]

You believe any anti US video on you tube ?

[@tesorosdetomas]

@@alfredosenalle9284 not just any video, all of them. It is not anti us, it is anti corruption, anti take human life for granted and more. I hope this didn't cause your head to explode with your own thoughts. Throw a wrench in the war machine.

[@moggingyou]

mainly the future of minorites which i believe was their plan at the very beginning. it kinda backfired though

[@alfredosenalle9284]

@@moggingyou "you believe" , why would you believe something like that ?

[@KacperPpp]

Not just America, the crack epidemic has swept the west

[@sjoncb]

Next episode on Vice: Did the US use its military to guard Afghanistan poppy fields?

[@mylissa2167]

This has already been done!

[@sjoncb]

@@mylissa2167 Oh! Share the link.

[@Manuelabor1978]

And the oil fields.

[@fistingendakenny8781]

@@Manuelabor1978 No, poppy, controlling Russia's heroin supply is way more lucrative than oil

[@matthewotremba9230]

Sorta , ya see , the Taliban are a strict bunch that had Poppy growth abolished in the region Then we stepped in Imagine the U.S. with no drugs to punish No drug cases in the courts No opium for their Camp David vacations The rich have been using opium since it came over on ships straight to Ben Franklin's party's

[@AndreRosario-zm8pf]

Politics will never destroy my family again. Thank God I understand this.

[@mikeg3372]

If it's criminal the government is involved.

[@Apollodidyourmom]

Powerful piece especially the line, “we like to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs” this friggin country

[@zumis1011]

They do that after every one of the videos in this series, pretty great line.

[@brandonsandoval5633]

yup because it really did.

[@phuckyoutube5927]

People been saying that it's just because their face wasn't on a screen you don't believe them.

[@Apollodidyourmom]

@@phuckyoutube5927 growing up in NYC in the early 90s and seeing your friends becoming junkies, arrested or dying I don’t need to a video to tell me drugs won in the end. I got the in your face education daily homeboy

[@Apollodidyourmom]

@@zumis1011 exactly bro

[@StreyX]

TLDW: They didn't directly sell it, but they allowed and protected drug kingpins that did.

[@support_theory8754]

Aiding and abetting

[@greasecheeks165]

You don't know stfu

[@nodoubt3605]

Whats the difference!!!

[@HypnoChode74]

They still sold it to them regardless

[@support_theory8754]

@@HypnoChode74 It essentially makes the CIA the kingpin. The kingpin will use other people distant and beneath them so there is a lessened and indirect connection. It's bullshit they didn't at least get pinned for aiding and abetting. Distance doesn't make the kingpin any less guilty.

[@RSHjr]

Is it even a question anymore at this point?!

[@SirHumano97]

Get rid of all these agencies.

[@MrIanWebb]

This is one of the best summarizations of this complex story. Tremendous amounts of research went into this piece to get it right. Well done, my hat goes off to you, Vice. - Ian Webb (son of Gary Webb)

[@guccipucci3941]

Me when I purposefully spread false information

[@jimmybooki4281]

The CIA did exactly the same thing El Chapo & Pablo did.Imported & exported drugs & weapons & cash.Somehow they think they allowed.Vietnam.CIA could sell ice to the eskimos.

[@jimmybooki4281]

Your old man will one day be recognised for bringing this to light.The way he was treated was abhorrent.To this day not one person acting on behalf of the CIA has been brought to justice.There must be justice or this will keep on happening.Surely this could not be the lesser evil to obtain an objective in a foreign land.Mr Webb did a better job protecting the community then the CIA ever did.

[@dogbeardbirdbeer]

Hi, Ian. Your father is a hero. I want to ask you... do you believe that your father actually took his own life?

[@lauraly2712]

This piece completely relies on what was said by 5 sources at the most, so what's up with the "tremendous amounts of research?" Your father made have done much research but Vice's piece leaves very much unexplained. They couldn't even describe how the cocaine was supposed to have gotten from the fields and smuggled into the U.S. The contras were encamped in Honduras and coca is not grown in those areas of Central America to which they had access. They had no ships, motor boats, or planes for transporting contraband from the tiny area where governments tolerant of them allowed them to operate. They were not like FARC in Colombia that were virtually the masters of much of the coca farming territory in Colombia. The street seller in this piece talks about making as much as $3 million a day but the Contras hardly had any money to purchase weapons after U.S. support was halted and some weapons shipments from Iran ended. So how was it that the contras made nothing from this lucrative trade? By 1989 their side had anyway won elections in Nicaragua. The easiest thing is to point a finger at the contras which the NY Times made into some sinister terrorist group at the same time as it kept whitewashing Sandinista terror and suppression of civil freedoms. You father did a great injustice by making it appear that the very few individuals who he heard connected to the drug trade were practically the leaders of the contras, thus throwing a stain on them. He didn't bother to investigate that their association with the contras was long ended and the contras themselves looked askance at them. It would be good if actual research was undertaken both on the crack trade and the contras. A report consisting of quick not taking on what others say is not what qualifies as genuine research.

[@Brandonhayhew]

CIA needs to be held accountability and be questioned

[@MusMasi]

they have they questioned themselves and decided to give themselves raises.

[@Brandonhayhew]

@@MusMasi then this country has no accountability nor questions the legitimacy of the government. This whole country is gonna be mess

[@arky1790]

LOL

[@usualdosage7287]

Anytime that happens they get killed

[@jalenmcentyre1880]

By who?

[@aidanafshar8744]

The Cia using it's power and reach to influence domestic situations.....no wayyyyy. They would never do anything like that 😏

[@ps4pros726]

They 100% did. I would assume the locals in South America taught them

[@galaxykitten8630]

Gary Webb's "suicide" was two headshots in his single home. There's a movie about it called kill the messenger.

[@jbuddycuddie764]

Back of the head at that

[@gutz323]

Seems to be quite a lot of people who commit suicide with 2 shots to the head, that are enemy's of the state.

[@daltonreid4734]

@@gutz323 how do you shoot your self twice?hmmm

[@gutz323]

@@daltonreid4734 with great difficulty.

[@digital_oni]

@@daltonreid4734 you just gotta press the trigger twice as hard and 2 bullets come out instead of one thank me later

[@howelln13]

This messed up a whole generation... I lost my mom to crack. " Government tried to stop me before I even got here."

[@michaelcabada2933]

Your mom try to stop you before you got here nobody forced her to smoke crack bro

[@howelln13]

@@michaelcabada2933 please... America is built off of Racism, Here's a great example or did it just go over your head.🤣🤣

[@albertrobinson4133]

@@michaelcabada2933 Sound like u need to be educated. Straight clown man

[@Christopher-bx8pl]

I wonder where all the fentanyl is coming from.

[@Cano.berlino]

franklin saint irl lol

[@NicoleB-uf2cb]

True Story: The CIA provided it, my father distributed it, and they busted the people he sold it to.

[@yearight6294]

trust me bro i know a guy

[@emilioluna8189]

White boy rick

[@03stmlax]

They created an entire economy of law enforcement, punishment

[@pak3ton]

@@03stmlax man you need a problem in order to sell the solution.

[@_RobBanks]

@Ryan Alex you didn’t saw her father while you was selling the drugs ? You are obviously an English professor, a a master linguist of sorts.

[@jacoboneill2494]

"Just say no to what we're helping people sell you."

[@skrungy1428]

How come every drug crisis begins with the doctors over prescribed pharmaceuticals? Shouldn’t we take the prescription pad away from them?

[@bobvylan7215]

Did the CIA sell drugs? The short answer is yes. The long answer is ……yes.

[@cantbeatthebay4765]

In short, yes; they did. This is what our gov't does to whistleblowers.

[@nickgheer4491]

Theres no evidence they did

[@ranger0209]

They used drug money to fund Los Contras. This is actually a true statement.

[@ranger0209]

@@nickgheer4491 the Last Narco is a really good documentary of an ex DEA agent who was assigned to investigate Camarenas execution in Mexico. What he uncovered had CIA involvement in drug trafficking to fund the Contras. The CIA thought Camarena had uncovered the CIAs involvement with drug trafficking so they had him executed.

[@lospaisasoriginal5454]

Still going. We'll see this end of month ....wish me luck...

[@beagruy2386]

@@nickgheer4491 there’s a lot, lol. They did, they do and they will continue to do so

[@Trashcan-actual]

This is really, simply, the only story you need to hear about being true to cause a total distrust in the US government as a whole, forever.

[@jamesmiller5331]

What about the president getting his head blown off in the '60s not very long after talking about smashing the CIA?

[@colemcnair5752]

If you want another, look up Operation Northwoods

[@ollietamuff3340]

Every level of every Government is corrupt. There are no ethical Governments

[@mariannwatt2678]

Oho no thats only one little slice of the pie !

[@theaccount4100]

@@colemcnair5752 or mk ultra