Journalist Gary Webb uncovers the CIA's role in importing cocaine into the US in the 1990s, and despite pressure, publishes the evidence, sparking a vicious smear campaign.
Kill the Messenger
Gary Webb, a journalist in California, began investigating in 1996 the CIA's alleged involvement in the 1980s in smuggling crack cocaine to Los Angeles' black community to fund the Contras and Nicaraguan freedom fighters.
