Gary Webb (1955-2004) Hero journalist Targeted Individual; shot twice in head, alleged suicide

Deborah DuPre

By Deborah Dupre

Human Rights Examiner

August 3, 2011 – Journalist hero, the late Gary Webb was further vindicated Wednesday with news parallelling Fast and Furious and California’s prison snitch or be tortured policy. Several tons of cocaine were brought into the United States by U.S. federal agents allowing [CIA] asset [the] Sinaloa drug cartel to traffic the haul, reportedly in exchange for information about rival cartels, according to court documents filed in a U.S. federal court.

“The latest allegations are part of the defense of Vicente Zambada-Niebla, who was extradited to the United States to face drug-trafficking charges in Chicago,” according to El Paso Times.

Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla, authorized by the CIA to traffick drugs in the U.S.

It took a Chicago court holding a status hearing today to order the U.S.  government to respond to Zambada-Niebla’s motion containing the allegations by Sept. 11.

Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla, son of Ismael “El Mayo,” is a top leaders of the Sinaloa drug-trafficking organization.

In April, Zambada claimed to have been working with the U.S. government for years according to pleadings filed in federal court in Chicago.

“Zambada Niebla’s allegation of U.S. government complicity in his narco-trafficking activities is laid out in a two-page court pleading filed in late March with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago. The pleading asserts that Zambada Niebla was working with ‘public authority’ “on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration (‘DEA’); and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (‘FBI’); and the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (‘ICE’).”

(VOD ed.: Click on Zambada motion citing public authority in drug trafficking, Zambada immunity agreement, and Zambada ruling 8 3 11 to read relevant documents.)

Niebla is also connected to the Gulfstream II jet that wrecked on September 4, 2007 with four tons of cocaine on board. (Also see video about this incident in You Tube post at top.)

N987SA CIA rendition plane

European investigators linked the wrecked plane’s tail number, N987SA, to CIA “rendition” operations. 

Niebla’s claim that he smuggled drugs from Mexico into the U.S. as an asset for the U.S. government adds further weight to evidence confirming that the CIA and U.S. banking giants are the top players in the transnational drug trade worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

Targeted Individual: Investigative journalist Gary Webb (1955-2004)

The CIA and U.S. banking drug dealing referenced allegations has been made by, among others, Pulitzer Prize journalist Gary Webb, who supposedly committed suicide in 2004, found with two gunshot wounds to the head. (See:  Stanton, Sam. “Reporter’s suicide confirmed by coroner,” The Sacramento Bee; Dec. 15. 2004. Retrieved Jul. 20, 2006)

Webb had revealed that the CIA was aware of cocaine transactions and large shipments of drugs into the U.S. by Contra personnel. (See Gary Webb in embedded Youtube on page left)

In his 20,000 word, three-part investigative series titled “Dark Alliance,” Webb alleged that Nicaraguan drug traffickers had sold and distributed crack cocaine in Los Angeles during the 1980s, and drug profits were funding the CIA-supported Nicaraguan Contras.

He had charged that the Reagan administration shielded inner-city drug dealers from prosecution to raise money for the Contras, especially after Congress passed the Boland Amendment that prohibited direct Contra funding.

As a growing number of Targeted Individuals do now, Webb experienced workplace mobbing. He was blacklisted out of his work as a reporter.

As Targeted Individuals consistently report today, Webb had complained of both death threats and multi-stalkers: “government people” stalking his home.

Criticized and black-listed from the mainstream journalism community, Webb’s reportage has been vindicated after many of his U.S. federal agency drug trafficking findings were validated.

Only after his death did the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune defend his “Dark Alliance” series.

These latest revelations of U.S. officials’ systematic drug dealing further vindicates Webb, now honored as a journalist hero, as the video about him reflects.

“Investigative reporting is being squeezed out of the picture, I think intentionally,” Webb stated on camera.

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