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title: Dark Alliance
aliases:
- Dark Alliance
- Dark Alliance series
- Dark Alliance investigation
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Intelligence Scandal"
tags:
- event
- journalism
- dark-alliance
summary: Dark Alliance was a three-part investigative series published by the San Jose Mercury News in August 1996, exposing links between CIA-backed Contra forces and the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles.
date: 1996-08-18
- Event
- Journalism
- DarkAlliance
- ContraWar
summary: "Dark Alliance was a three-part investigative series published by the San Jose Mercury News in August 1996, exposing links between CIA-backed Contra forces and the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles."
start: 1996-08-18
location: "San Jose, California"
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"Dark Alliance" was a three-part investigative series published by the [[San Jose Mercury News]] on August 18, 1996, written by [[Gary Webb]]. The series documented how a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of [[cocaine]] to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of [[Los Angeles]] and funneled millions in drug profits to the [[Contras|Contra]] army run by the [[Central Intelligence Agency]].[^1]