RE: The Latin American Report # 666: Claims and facts

The American television show '60 Minutes' published a report in which the DEA, outraged at the death by torture of one of their undercover agents by cartel members associated with and informed by the CIA, Enrique 'Kiki' Camarena, provided compelling evidence that the CIA was importing tons of cocaine and heroin into the United States.

https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1982845665492472021

"Gary Webb was an investigative journalist who worked for the San Jose Mercury News from 1988 to 1997. He gained national prominence while at the paper for his 1996 three-part series titled "Dark Alliance," which explored connections between the CIA, the U.S.-backed Contra rebels in Nicaragua, and the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles. The series claimed that profits from cocaine sales by a Bay Area drug ring were funneled to the Contras, who were supported by the CIA during their conflict with Nicaragua’s Sandinista government.

"The Mercury News published the series with extensive supplementary material online, where it became an early internet sensation, drawing up to 1.3 million daily hits..."
--https://search.brave.com/search?q=gary+webb+newspaper+mercury&source=web&summary=1&conversation=5eaa9008eb64a6251b2933

The specific details of Webb's reporting were hazy, as it was nearly 30 years ago, so I searched them up to ensure I provided you accurate information. There is much more information you can find once you establish the premise is true to your satisfaction. From it's very beginning, the CIA has been involved in drug smuggling, starting in 1948. 'Freeway' Rick Ross, a convicted drug dealer, "...notes that he never knew he was working with the CIA until the scandal became public..."

My understanding is that the CIA operates the major black markets of the world, from child sex trafficking, to drug smuggling, to illegal organ harvesting. Illegal drug smuggling is likely the least morally depraved thing the CIA does, because the truth is that human beings are sovereign and have the right to consume or not consume whatever substances they want. In that light, the CIA provision of drugs to the market for them is supporting human rights. However, the way in which they operate disproves they do so for moral reasons, doing the right thing for all the wrong reasons, in all the wrong ways, in all the wrong places.