| Andy Furillo |
Andy Furillo was a Los Angeles Times police beat reporter who wrote the first national press story about crack cocaine in November 1984, documenting the explosion of rock houses in South Central Los Angeles. |
| Barbara Durr |
Financial Times stringer in Peru who became involved in Ari Ben-Menashe's mission to secure rare minerals for Israel's nuclear program. |
| Bill Moyers |
Bill Moyers is an American journalist and former government official. |
| Bill Turner |
Turner later admitted to police that he met with Casolaro but initially refused to specify the time or describe the contents of the papers. |
| Charles L. Bartlett |
American newspaper columnist and close friend of JFK who recounted Kennedy's meetings with Jewish leaders regarding Middle East policy. |
| Craig Unger |
In July 1992, The Village Voice printed a long article by Unger that quoted Moshe Hebroni, a former colleague of Ben-Menashe, confirming Ben-Menashe's access to very sensitive material while working for the Foreign Flow desk in External Relations. |
| Dan Moldea |
In Dark Victory, Moldea famously labeled MCA as 'The Octopus' due to its extensive and often illicit connections. |
| Don Thrasher |
Thrasher also learned about Rod Sinclair, Jr.'s education in Japan and his later work in Army C.I.D.. |
| Doyle McManus |
Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief who played a central role in spreading a 1984 CIA leak about Sandinista drug trafficking and later led the Times' refutation of Contra drug trafficking allegations. |
| Gary Sick |
Former Carter administration adviser on Iran and author of October Surprise, examining evidence of a Reagan-Khomeini secret deal to delay hostage release. |
| Gary Webb |
Investigative reporter for the San Jose Mercury News whose 1996 Dark Alliance series exposed links between CIA-backed Contras, Nicaraguan cocaine traffickers, and the crack explosion in Los Angeles. |
| Georg Hodel |
Swiss freelance journalist based in Managua who located Norwin Meneses in a Nicaraguan prison and uncovered court files documenting his drug trafficking for the Contras, playing a critical role in the Dark Alliance investigation. |
| Henry R. Myers |
House Subcommittee on Energy specialist who spent nearly fifteen years promoting intelligence claims about Israeli nuclear diversion via NUMEC. |
| Jacques Bergier |
Jacques Bergier was a journalist, former French resistance spy, and author with strong ties to the intelligence community and an interest in the supernatural. |
| Jeffrey Steinberg |
Writer for Executive Intelligence Review who documented a 1991 interview with attorney Allan Boyak detailing Robert Booth Nichols' drug trafficking and CIA-connected activities. |
| Jerry Ceppos |
Executive editor of the San Jose Mercury News who initially championed the Dark Alliance series before publishing a column describing shortcomings in the reporting, effectively ending the investigation. |
| Jerry Goldberg |
Goldberg's article mentioned the 'Queen's Accident' and threats received by individuals who spoke out against the sheriff and district attorney. |
| Jesse Katz |
Los Angeles Times reporter who covered Ricky Ross and the L.A. crack trade extensively, attempting to scoop Gary Webb's Dark Alliance investigation before publication. |
| Jonathan Kwitny |
Investigative journalist and author of The Crimes of Patriots, which documented Michael Hand's escape from Australia after Nugan Hand Bank collapsed. |
| Joseph Russoniello |
Joseph Russoniello was the U.S. attorney in San Francisco whose cozy relationship with the CIA coincided with the decision not to prosecute Norwin Meneses for drug trafficking in spring 1985. |
| Malcolm Klein |
Malcolm Klein was a USC sociologist who, with colleague Cheryl Maxson, conducted the first scientific study of the early Los Angeles crack market in 1985, documenting the proliferation of rock houses and street gang involvement. |
| Martha Honey |
Martha Honey was a New York Times stringer in Costa Rica who pursued the Contra drug story and was placed under FBI surveillance for her reporting. |
| Nick Schou |
Nick Schou was a journalist who uncovered documentary evidence of former CIA Deputy Director William Nelson's employment at Fluor Corporation, contradicting the company's denials. |
| Pazit Ravina |
Israeli journalist who confirmed that Ari Ben-Menashe had access to highly sensitive intelligence information in her 1992 Davar articles. |
| Peter D. Stockton |
Chief investigator for congressional subcommittees who relayed intelligence community suspicions about Israel's nuclear program to journalists. |
| Raji Samghabadi |
After the Iranian Revolution, Samghabadi was arrested by the Mullahs, accused of being a CIA spy and a Tudeh Party member. |
| Rosie Nimrodi |
Iraqi Jewish researcher in New York and distant relative of Yaacov Nimrodi who leaked the Oliver North story to journalists. |
| Sarah McClendon |
McClendon had alerted authorities that Wilcher was missing. |
| Seth Rosenfeld |
San Francisco Examiner reporter whose 1986 investigative stories exposed the Frogman Case Contra drug connections and Norwin Meneses's cocaine trafficking network. |
| Thomas Gates |
Gates conducted a wiretap of MCA under the supervision of U.S. |
| Tony Avirgan |
Tony Avirgan was an ABC cameraman and husband of journalist Martha Honey who was placed under FBI surveillance while investigating Contra drug trafficking in Costa Rica. |
| Walter Pincus |
Washington Post national security reporter who led the newspaper's attack on the Dark Alliance series and had a documented history as a CIA operative and propagandist during the Cold War. |
