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  • The rumours have circulated for decades. Did the CIA flood the inner cities of the US with crack cocaine in the 1980s? Was the American government actually responsible for the crack epidemic?
    Often dismissed as a conspiracy theory, but passionately believed by huge sections of the population - the idea that US intelligence agencies knowingly protected drug traffickers and played a role in bringing cocaine into the US is one of the most often repeated stories of the War on Drugs.
    But what is the truth to these allegations? It turns out the real story is perhaps even stranger than the street-level gossip.
    This is how one reporter exposed a web of CIA cover-ups, and how the rest of the media destroyed him for doing so.
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  • @VICE
    @VICE  3 месяца назад +58

    ¿Quieres ver el video en español? Haz clic en el botón de configuración para cambiar la pista de audio.
    Want to watch this in Spanish? Head over to the settings button to change the audio track.
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    • @Astroteolog
      @Astroteolog 3 месяца назад

      Yes they did❗

    • @herbert633
      @herbert633 3 месяца назад +4

      did they figure out how to pronounce "Nicaragua" in the spanish dub?

    • @kwilj
      @kwilj 2 месяца назад +1

      Claro que me gustaría ver el video en español...pero depende MUCHO como pronuncian el Nicaragua

    • @aidanafshar8744
      @aidanafshar8744 22 дня назад

      CIA - "I mean......If we don't do it, somebody else will."

  • @CristiandlfDeval
    @CristiandlfDeval 2 дня назад +92

    Crack addiction actually destroyed my life. I started doing drugs since my teenage, got addicted to Crack. spent my whole life fighting Crack addiction. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.

    • @Ronkaja
      @Ronkaja 2 дня назад

      Amen God bless people. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health.

    • @Bastianbishops
      @Bastianbishops 2 дня назад

      Can you help me with the reliable source 🙏. I'm 56 and have suffered for years with addiction, anxiety and severe ptsd, I got my panic attacks under control myself years ago and they have come back with a vengeance, I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't get the full satisfying breath out, it's absolutely crippling me, i live in Germany. I don't know much about these mushrooms. Really need a reliable source!! Can't wait to get them

    • @SusanaGomez-mp8sk
      @SusanaGomez-mp8sk 2 дня назад +1

      Yes sure of Dr.benfungi

    • @BrownGeorge-pw2xo
      @BrownGeorge-pw2xo 2 дня назад +1

      I hate that some persons still grouped psilocybin with drugs like cocaine and heroin. Mushrooms are a remedy, not a vice! I went on a microdose treatment for a couple of months and within the first week, every sight of a cigarette got me questioning why I was doing all that to myself. It really works.

    • @PriscillaLogan-by9ll
      @PriscillaLogan-by9ll 2 дня назад

      How do I reach out to him? Is he on insta

  • @cloudy_xDD
    @cloudy_xDD 11 месяцев назад +2794

    “How are we supposed to trust the CIA to investigate.. THEMSELVES?” She’s got a point!

    • @gloriawatson2094
      @gloriawatson2094 9 месяцев назад +1

      Racism and hate is deep rooted.

    • @wa1ufo
      @wa1ufo 7 месяцев назад +27

      Letting the fox into the chicken coop!

    • @qua7771
      @qua7771 7 месяцев назад +11

      Trust a spy/ propaganda organization?

    • @MakeLivesHappen
      @MakeLivesHappen 6 месяцев назад +10

      SNOWFALL SPOILERS

    • @user-rt9zq8rs9k
      @user-rt9zq8rs9k 5 месяцев назад

      JFK began the elimination of the CIA and got rid of the evil ILLEGAL company bank system The Federal Reserve when the American Military Industrial Complex , the CIA and the FBI all joined forces to blame Lee Harvey Oswald for the assassination of JFK .

  • @Sigmacum97
    @Sigmacum97 6 месяцев назад +274

    It was Reed Thompson who Sold coke in the 80s, he worked alongside Franklin Saint.

  • @keithgray4891
    @keithgray4891 4 месяца назад +316

    One of the most devastating drugs ever manufactured… I’m pleased i am drug free , for the past 15 years… and yes I was crack addicted 🙏🏿

    • @keithgray4891
      @keithgray4891 4 месяца назад

      @@user-sz6zl5yi5v Thanks 💯

    • @petergreen5337
      @petergreen5337 3 месяца назад +12

      ❤agreed 100%. Thank God you are FREE. We wish you the BEST.

    • @gregtaylor7402
      @gregtaylor7402 3 месяца назад +5

      🙏🏾🙏🏾 keep going strong and I agree

    • @imacryptid5254
      @imacryptid5254 3 месяца назад +2

      @@ru_lmaoyeah for real it’s clean now it’s not unhealthy like it used to be.

    • @Moufdiz
      @Moufdiz 3 месяца назад

      @@imacryptid5254wtf are you talking about, what has changed

  • @REDACTED1917
    @REDACTED1917 2 года назад +5548

    CIA: "Well we investigated ourselves and conclude that we did nothing wrong."

    • @ricklopez7151
      @ricklopez7151 2 года назад +68

      Exactly!!!

    • @iwantwinnersproduxtions
      @iwantwinnersproduxtions 2 года назад +27

      Kinda like, We Pfizer have tested our vaccine and yea it is safe

    • @josephlee5654
      @josephlee5654 2 года назад +3

      CIA was on crack

    • @ankursoni65
      @ankursoni65 2 года назад +27

      @@iwantwinnersproduxtions Pfizer has valid data and studies verified by health agencies to prove its effectiveness. The cia doesnt

    • @G.Bfit.93
      @G.Bfit.93 2 года назад +4

      @@ankursoni65 it doesn't real world non corporate studies have disproven their efficacy and ability to prevent transmission those "studies" are about as useful as the "studies" debunking climate change by oil companies and "studies" proving atrazine safe by syngenta and "studies" proving cigarettes safe by tobacco industry

  • @koreanenemy4577
    @koreanenemy4577 2 года назад +15161

    Vice: “Did the CIA sell crack?”
    The CIA: “Yeah lmao”

    • @w0rloko
      @w0rloko 2 года назад +1057

      The CIA: "What are you gonna do about it?"

    • @tinychum203
      @tinychum203 2 года назад +329

      The CIA:"My Bad"
      Obama:Hold My Beer

    • @jonathanblount6437
      @jonathanblount6437 2 года назад +261

      They literally said they didn't sell them, but rather allowed drug traffickers to operate with impunity. There is a difference.

    • @StoneCoolds
      @StoneCoolds 2 года назад +215

      The cia: dud, americans wanted so much drugs that we had to step in cuz the 3rd world countries just couldn't keep up with the demand

    • @thepatriot1613
      @thepatriot1613 2 года назад +53

      This is why we can't trust the U.S. government anymore or any government for that matter, just ask the now defunct Afghan government.

  • @nosidenoside2458
    @nosidenoside2458 3 месяца назад +127

    Weird how large newspapers defended the government instead of looking into a possible once-in-a-lifetime story. Funny how that goes.

    • @caljohnson1126
      @caljohnson1126 2 месяца назад

      Operation Mockingbird….CIA runs the media

    • @Haraambe
      @Haraambe Месяц назад +14

      The news is the government and the government is the news

    • @jasondashney
      @jasondashney Месяц назад

      I'm shocked. Shocked I say! As as for the "nobody went to jail" part, I'm equally 'shocked'.

    • @baileyclark8710
      @baileyclark8710 Месяц назад

      Ita funny how the war on drugs has disappeared and my opinion is they finally got enough of payoff to let it happen without drugs tons of jobs and companies that the government owns most of thier stocks wouldn't have a need to be around.

    • @violetsrayreikishop2
      @violetsrayreikishop2 Месяц назад

      That's because they're bought and controlled by the CIA, people need to realize journalism been dead for a long time everything in those papers and mainstream news is propaganda look at the war between Russia and Ukraine the CIA did a coup in Ukraine in 2014 and put a dictator in office this set a lot of things in motion plus the gave the nazis there power that already hate anyone that isn't Ukrainian they're nationalist so they prepared them to start war by attacking the Donbas Russian speaking population and attacking Crimea and Russia putin tried to get them to abide by the minsk agreement they refused so he went to the UN etc nothing thanks to America and its nato allies yet we're told putin started it and wants to invade other countries to bring back the ussr which is bs, he has said the USSR was something that shouldn't have existed. He after Ukraine to get them to come to negotiations and free the southern region that doesn't wanna be apart of Ukraine after being bombed for 8 years nonstop and keep Ukraine neutral as a buffer between Russia and nato.

  • @jonnyjames862
    @jonnyjames862 5 месяцев назад +166

    1:28 That pronunciation of Nicaragua’s a new one for me

    • @alexwiant9426
      @alexwiant9426 2 месяца назад +28

      Average British pronunciation of a Spanish word

    • @glenndouglas8822
      @glenndouglas8822 2 месяца назад +4

      🤣😂 you are spot on there, it's us English pronouncing incorrectly 😁

    • @ryanporpora508
      @ryanporpora508 Месяц назад +8

      Nicarahhguahh

    • @user-kg4zm1ov6r
      @user-kg4zm1ov6r 27 дней назад +4

      It’s So cringey 😂😂😂

    • @groovy3443
      @groovy3443 16 дней назад

      He's Br*tish

  • @h2oGiovanni
    @h2oGiovanni 2 года назад +2274

    "He died by suicide in 2004"
    >Shot himself in the head TWICE
    Oh okay.

    • @dpedreno
      @dpedreno 2 года назад +50

      There's an important Portuguese poet (the kind you study in school) that committed suicide the same way. Not sure how that goes, I'm guessing nerves. I'm also guessing it's the US, so everything goes, but then again, he had been discredited for a long time, his death only dug up the whole story again. If he was killed, whoever thought that plan up is an idiot.

    • @Dong_Harvey
      @Dong_Harvey 2 года назад +59

      Twice in the back of the head, execution style..
      One of those execution-suicides that LEOs are fond of botching

    • @ScotianBlooded
      @ScotianBlooded 2 года назад +9

      not unheard of the human body can withstand a lot

    • @oscargoldman6689
      @oscargoldman6689 2 года назад +52

      @@Dong_Harvey yeah thats a huge thing, twice in the back of the head

    • @Scamp2x
      @Scamp2x 2 года назад +6

      @First Last lemme see you try

  • @loubega5140
    @loubega5140 2 года назад +9365

    Vice in 2030: did the CIA sell fentanyl in the US?
    Answer: yes

    • @Boogalyhu
      @Boogalyhu 2 года назад +243

      Literal poison mainly produced by big pharma... makes sense.

    • @jaysinner313studios
      @jaysinner313studios 2 года назад +567

      Did the us military protect opium fields in Afghanistan yes thats what the war on terror was

    • @pak3ton
      @pak3ton 2 года назад +443

      you need a problem in order to sell a solution...

    • @rayedrama
      @rayedrama 2 года назад +16

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @h2oGiovanni
      @h2oGiovanni 2 года назад +15

      Right LOL

  • @alwayscrispy666
    @alwayscrispy666 11 месяцев назад +20

    I smoked crack and almost drove myself into oncoming traffic from a big ass hit. Never again. 102 days clean lmao.

    • @Xyz66648
      @Xyz66648 Месяц назад +7

      Good for you keep going ❤

  • @sherrydashiell2408
    @sherrydashiell2408 4 месяца назад +26

    When crack hit the black community it was devastating I remember I was in college came home visit some friends I didn’t even recognize them they look like someone else that I didn’t even know It was scary and sad that drug broke up a lot of families

  • @newjack1982
    @newjack1982 2 года назад +8856

    Being a 80s baby myself born in 1980 I remember how crack hit my hood. Watching responsible mothers and fathers totally abandoned their families. I was lucky because my mom tried it but seen what it was doing to her friends so decided to stop early. My homies weren’t so fortunate. And Gary Webb didn’t commit suicide he was killed by the CIA. YOU CANT SHOOT YOURSELF IN THE HEAD TWICE SMH!

    • @terenzogaming2003
      @terenzogaming2003 2 года назад +43

      Thank u ain’t no way possible The CIA got him fired cause he was finding out info that would expose them and then they murdered him to keep everything on the 🤫

    • @verbalkint1770
      @verbalkint1770 2 года назад +317

      There's a cop who killed his gf then when they were closing in on him he shot himself in the head 2 or 3 times.

    • @yilongmusk9665
      @yilongmusk9665 2 года назад +479

      Actually it's possible to survive the initial first shot IF you are lucky,and reattempt to finish the job

    • @gecgec3409
      @gecgec3409 2 года назад +35

      Thanks for sharing

    • @chillyhead611
      @chillyhead611 2 года назад +13

      Facts.

  • @shadowbanned3716
    @shadowbanned3716 2 года назад +6285

    "How are we supposed to TRUST the c.i.a official to investigate THEMSELVES?!" i lol at that. that was the most common sense statement ever

    • @ozzyboymelgreen4775
      @ozzyboymelgreen4775 2 года назад +141

      thats when i gave up in any gov

    • @justanotherdayinthelife9841
      @justanotherdayinthelife9841 2 года назад +69

      The ONLY way we had to police the CIA was via their funding..
      Republicans REMOVED that language in the renewal for funds and now the C.I.A. is 100% UNACCOUNTABLE.
      THANKS Republicans and Corporate Democrats, thank you for being the opposite of what a patriot is and outing yourselves for everyone to see.
      Defund the cia, defund the police, defund all politics entirely.

    • @Ichihiro36
      @Ichihiro36 2 года назад +11

      @@justanotherdayinthelife9841 Traitor or treasonist is probably the word your looking for.

    • @Oblivisci........
      @Oblivisci........ 2 года назад +50

      @@justanotherdayinthelife9841 While absolutely I agree that these government entities need to be held far more accountable than they are now, literally saying "just defund everything" is probably the worst way to create meaningful change. The result of defunding all of these government entities is asking for even more corruption, producing more crime, making criminals completely aware that less police and ability to respond to crime will create far more crime, ect. And Im not talking about crime like drug dealing Im talking about crime like breaki g and entering, rape, murder, and even worse.

    • @abigalanderson7494
      @abigalanderson7494 2 года назад +2

      Fisa courts are a joke too

  • @mochtegerndane7097
    @mochtegerndane7097 3 месяца назад +13

    I lived in Nicaragua during and after the revolution and I can tell you, that many Nicaraguans were totally and utterly dismayed, when they heard the names of the people manning the contra leadership. Nicaragua was a country of 2,8 million people and everyone knew the names of these Managua gangsters. (Which is also why the Sandinistas got so much support from the normal people - they did NOT want these names to be back in Managua).
    Imagine how the Americans would have reacted, if an "American Liberation Front" had been formed in Mexico and Canada and the defenders of American democracy would be Sonny Barger, Whitey Bulger and some guy called Genovese.

  • @NooffenceBut_
    @NooffenceBut_ 2 года назад +4383

    "we would like to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs" gives me goose bumps everytime I hear that, it's the definition of a deep multi leveled statement.

    • @stevebowldeep69
      @stevebowldeep69 2 года назад +29

      i get litterly same feeling everytime :D

    • @monke6776
      @monke6776 2 года назад +68

      It’s cringe

    • @cmen6895
      @cmen6895 2 года назад +112

      @@monke6776 no, not really.

    • @monke6776
      @monke6776 2 года назад +40

      @@cmen6895
      Yes, incredibly much so. You’ll realize one day

    • @garranlilly5380
      @garranlilly5380 2 года назад +50

      @@monke6776 they did win tho

  • @DRightOne4888
    @DRightOne4888 Год назад +604

    I've got family that are still in jail from the effects of crack. One got 45years. I haven't seen him since I was 18. I'm 55 now. Got a cousin who got off crack after decades of drug addiction. Reagan and Nixon really did a number on the black community. At least two entire generations lost. Thank God we're a resilient bunch.

    • @PinkyJujubean
      @PinkyJujubean Год назад

      That was the whole plan all along. It's not exactly a secret that Reagan was an old racist toad. That's why he kicked off his presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi with a speech filled with racial dog whistle terms. That town was significant because it was where three civil rights workers were murdered by the kkk in the 60s. He was the guy carrying the flag for the racists who sadly didn't go away after the civil rights era

    • @ljt3084
      @ljt3084 Год назад +18

      Republican Presidents..

    • @brianminsk8
      @brianminsk8 Год назад +44

      That's right. It was Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon who, together, entered the homes of each member of the crack using black community at the time. Simultaneously, they would each hold a gun to the head of each crack addict, and force them to continue their addiction. Really did a number on that community.

    • @taxidriver877
      @taxidriver877 Год назад

      @@brianminsk8 Nixon's Cabinet member actually did say Nixon targeted the black and brown communities with this scourge. Three strikes was designed to destroy an entire black generation while white drug users and dealer using coke got much lighter sentencing. Now, with meth and fentanyl on the rise in mostly rural white communities, they get actual healthcare and a pat on the behind. The govt is taking action so your folks don't go to jail for lie nor spend decades using these drugs. That's what I'm talking about.

    • @OmegaRick
      @OmegaRick Год назад

      ​@@brianminsk8 Too bad they didn't stop by your house and burn it down with you in it

  • @TeezyHadaBaby
    @TeezyHadaBaby 6 месяцев назад +85

    Its crazy how EVERYONE knows about it yet the government has never been held accountable. WE out number THEM.

    • @santiagolerda435
      @santiagolerda435 5 месяцев назад

      They control the military, not much you can do against that

    • @TallicaMan1986
      @TallicaMan1986 4 месяца назад +18

      Actually most people don't know about this. They just think the modern black ghetto was always a black ghetto instead of a neighborhood like anywhere else.

    • @TeezyHadaBaby
      @TeezyHadaBaby 4 месяца назад +11

      @@TallicaMan1986 They know, but it didn’t affect them so they don’t care.

    • @janzkee
      @janzkee 4 месяца назад

      do we actually lol cause with a press of a button every major country can eradicate us all, why do you think the conflicts between russia and usa are so tense? cause they can literally blow eachother up until theres nothing

    • @fratrickmachomes5263
      @fratrickmachomes5263 4 месяца назад +6

      @@TeezyHadaBabynah. I’m researching all of this rn and I knew gangs were around in the 80s but didn’t know the full extent of what happened and how they turned from basically neighborhood watch to a warzone.

  • @jameswestergaard9793
    @jameswestergaard9793 7 месяцев назад +28

    This is an amazing well put together video about something that affected my childhood greatly. And seeing Jim Norton Interview Freeway Ricky Ross is just a legendary 10 second bit to add to this. Beautiful.

    • @jasondashney
      @jasondashney Месяц назад

      Ricky Ross was on Rogan so you can see a really long form with him if you want.

  • @LJDS1979
    @LJDS1979 2 года назад +3128

    "Dark Alliance, the CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion" by Gary Webb. A must read.

    • @unitedstatesirie7431
      @unitedstatesirie7431 2 года назад +33

      who do you think makes the pharmaceutical drug commercials in the USA ?
      The CIA takes orders from the 666 son of perdition that lives in Italy.

    • @WolverineTraining
      @WolverineTraining 2 года назад +134

      He was suicided.

    • @LJDS1979
      @LJDS1979 2 года назад +10

      @@WolverineTraining Yep

    • @WolverineTraining
      @WolverineTraining 2 года назад +33

      If you follow the money. Crack sold in Compton, a certain ex presidents saving and loan company bought up Compton, the war on drugs, Compton value goes through the roof.
      CIA keeps money to fund wars and training at the School of America’s for their mercenaries.

    • @nolanwadr
      @nolanwadr 2 года назад +20

      If Gary Webb was so smart then why is he dead? Good luck answering that one

  • @cdoe3395
    @cdoe3395 Год назад +2190

    RIP Gary Webb. A hero who told the truth and was assasinated by the CIA for it

    • @MikeBNumba6
      @MikeBNumba6 Год назад +250

      yea when I heard suicide, I'm like "yea right"

    • @B3stie17
      @B3stie17 Год назад +15

      @@dukecocko215 what are you on about

    • @user-dn8br4bz1q
      @user-dn8br4bz1q Год назад

      Lookup☝️🍄✅ that handle he got DMT LSD psilocybin MDMA 🍄.💊..🔌

    • @markgreiser464
      @markgreiser464 Год назад

      RIP the two Kids killed in Arkansas , for getting to close to the Op. If you haven't heard the Story, it is easy to find. Clinton Goons.

    • @bloodbornlink8998
      @bloodbornlink8998 Год назад +28

      Gary was true American hero

  • @OlympicCoolCat
    @OlympicCoolCat 10 месяцев назад +10

    Crazy how I started watching snowfall and this pops up on my feed 😂😂

  • @justinchrzanowski1483
    @justinchrzanowski1483 10 месяцев назад +24

    This didn't just happen. It hit the city's like a movie premiere where no one needed tickets.

    • @gloriawatson2094
      @gloriawatson2094 9 месяцев назад +3

      They planted the drugs in our community, I saw the drop off, white man and black boy duo. No JOBS, yet plenty of drugs and guns. Our youth could not see it, all they saw was the $$$$. Rip to all those affected 🙏 💔 and their families. It really was the start to our society declining or decadence

    • @gloriawatson2094
      @gloriawatson2094 9 месяцев назад +3

      America now has to read what it has sowed

    • @TwinTyphoons
      @TwinTyphoons 9 месяцев назад

      @@gloriawatson2094dont forget the guns

  • @ben8133
    @ben8133 2 года назад +795

    We'd like to congratulate drugs on winning the war on drugs.

    • @leelandglover2731
      @leelandglover2731 2 года назад

      Lmmfao

    • @jaycustom21
      @jaycustom21 2 года назад +6

      Yea that tripped me out when she said that...I replayed it to hear it again. I wonder why I've never heard that before... because it's really the truth! 💯

    • @onlyzah5803
      @onlyzah5803 2 года назад

      Aye u got a heart

    • @gringa978
      @gringa978 2 года назад +6

      Congrats drugs you crazy sob you actually won!

    • @onlyzah5803
      @onlyzah5803 2 года назад +1

      Wait it says that at the end of the vid lol

  • @braydenbrayden5
    @braydenbrayden5 2 года назад +2996

    Hell yeah they did and they still going strong !

    • @braydenbrayden5
      @braydenbrayden5 2 года назад +89

      Ask freeway Ricky Ross, his whole family will say the government was behind it all !

    • @stephoneley6771
      @stephoneley6771 2 года назад +21

      FACTTTSSS!!

    • @comptche3972
      @comptche3972 2 года назад +39

      Period, many decades many tons.

    • @ScoobyShotU
      @ScoobyShotU 2 года назад +34

      @@braydenbrayden5 of course they would blame someone else he's not gonna admit he was the one that was destroying his own community lol people believe anything

    • @susiefairfield7218
      @susiefairfield7218 2 года назад +28

      Yep now its fenty,meth,and heroin

  • @paulleduffjr.5236
    @paulleduffjr.5236 9 месяцев назад +18

    My dad told me this when i was a child, its crazy how i thoight he was reaching.

  • @youtubesonlysavior3044
    @youtubesonlysavior3044 8 месяцев назад +6

    I thought MADE MY DAY by Lucki was playing at the end lol

  • @StockHeightChevy603
    @StockHeightChevy603 2 года назад +811

    You should rename this,
    “CIA still sells crack since the 1980’s.”

    • @bluelife1503
      @bluelife1503 2 года назад +34

      Nah they moved to fentanyl analogues wooo OD gang

    • @electricmail5662
      @electricmail5662 2 года назад +12

      Exactly and they really don't care about anybody black or white!

    • @Dockhead
      @Dockhead 2 года назад +16

      @@electricmail5662 what's even funnier is we just all shrug our shoulders and say its okay? no wonder a NWO is incoming.

    • @Orcawhale1
      @Orcawhale1 2 года назад +2

      You should perhaps watch the video, because the opposite is actully the case.

    • @Hispanicincel
      @Hispanicincel 2 года назад

      @@Dockhead what’s nwo

  • @tobypickles90
    @tobypickles90 2 года назад +630

    Was Garfield an orange cat that ate lasagna?

  • @sadface6635
    @sadface6635 8 месяцев назад +4

    Along with keeping black people from acquiring wealth and economic growth in cities, this was also a way to incriminate and put black people in prisons for forced labor, which continues to this day.

  • @joshswiger7854
    @joshswiger7854 4 месяца назад +8

    Officially: No
    Unofficially: HELL YES

    • @war.neverchanges
      @war.neverchanges 3 дня назад

      If they’re publicly backing a drug dealer then no it’s official that they’re corrupt but nothing will happen

  • @Unknown-ty9qu
    @Unknown-ty9qu 2 года назад +444

    Makes you wonder, if they did this in the 80's what are they doing now that we will only know about decades later?

    • @-ds9938
      @-ds9938 2 года назад +23

      Increasing inflation for the elite to buy everything up because normal folks cant afford it. It was never about right or wrong just about maintaining an ancient empire.

    • @hossblur1
      @hossblur1 2 года назад +23

      Have you missed Coronavirus? How much money and power has the CIA/Government made on that

    • @michigansteve4440
      @michigansteve4440 2 года назад +93

      Fentanyl

    • @marilynmonheaux6356
      @marilynmonheaux6356 2 года назад +9

      Misinformation campaigns so nobody believes anybody. The perfect answer for the fact that anything can be filmed.

    • @damiansosa4987
      @damiansosa4987 2 года назад +2

      they push carts and sissy femboy waves

  • @nonnoyobisnis8705
    @nonnoyobisnis8705 2 года назад +2485

    You forgot to mention that Webb killed himself with two (two) gunshots to his head, but that's just a minor detail.
    Otherwise, great job!

    • @mcnally211
      @mcnally211 2 года назад +357

      He was " suicided"

    • @souhung69
      @souhung69 2 года назад +464

      they killed himself

    • @nathangage9443
      @nathangage9443 2 года назад +86

      Oh yah just that “minor” detail 😅

    • @IronPsyde
      @IronPsyde 2 года назад +99

      That is bull. He was just trying to finish the job. Now three shots would be suspicious…

    • @Blackronin357
      @Blackronin357 2 года назад +33

      The first one missed motor functions, so that's how he got the second one off.

  • @tobe1207
    @tobe1207 7 месяцев назад +1

    They had a system, Ronnie used to slice the crack so thin that it would actually liquify in a pan with a little oil and baking soda

  • @OfficialLuvQue
    @OfficialLuvQue 9 месяцев назад +2

    I’ve been watching snowfall, this is no coincidence 😭

  • @Ooshababa
    @Ooshababa 2 года назад +3480

    I like how vice just touched on Gary Webbs "suicide".
    Didn't really highlight the suspect nature of his "suicide".
    If I'm not mistaken, Gary Webb:
    Shot himself in the head.
    Twice.
    With a REVOLVER...
    Using his left hand.
    Gary Webb was right handed.

    • @pickford7812
      @pickford7812 2 года назад +153

      When my neighbor shot himself in the head with a semi auto shotgun, I heard 3 shots.

    • @Tre16
      @Tre16 2 года назад +434

      @@pickford7812 he was murdered

    • @AnimeIsLayfu
      @AnimeIsLayfu 2 года назад +100

      You can't shot your head twice though.

    • @pickford7812
      @pickford7812 2 года назад +164

      @@AnimeIsLayfu the nervous system doesn't immediately stop, even when half of the brains are removed. The nerves will continue to fire after death

    • @letsgojake.4078
      @letsgojake.4078 2 года назад +97

      Epstein is just the most recent. Its the same story over and over. Seth Rich.

  • @BootsORiley
    @BootsORiley 2 года назад +1314

    Gary Webb died so that this doesn't need to be a question with any hint of doubt looming over the subject. it's a fact and he backed it up with receipts galore.

    • @bottomherout2357
      @bottomherout2357 2 года назад +96

      FACTS . However that's too much for the masses to comprehend if they don't hear it from the local news it ain't true 😂

    • @fastlife711
      @fastlife711 2 года назад +5

      @@bottomherout2357 So True,lol!

    • @why55555
      @why55555 2 года назад +10

      Psyop scammers in RUclips who swarmed me in 2007 (before I knew my Ex was dead CIA) think it is amusing to use the "Webb" name for their games, apparently. I can't tell if these guys are paid by the Government to spy on Americans or simply grifters. I suspect they ate camouflage games for Big Tech moves they are all profiting from right now. CIA is so in the center of Big Tech takeover games, in my view from Sarasota. Simply my opinion while I'm healing from nurse burnout after 33yr career here.

    • @Iamthebeesknees1
      @Iamthebeesknees1 2 года назад

      Cool name 🙂

    • @Iamthebeesknees1
      @Iamthebeesknees1 2 года назад +1

      I could only watch the first 4 minutes of this! I don't know why I even clicked on it tbh

  • @kontrast4361
    @kontrast4361 5 месяцев назад +1

    Its unhealthy but i like to imagine through all this chaos John Deutch acting like Avery Bullock from American Dad 😂😂

  • @matthewcockburn9850
    @matthewcockburn9850 4 месяца назад +3

    Short answer: yes.
    Long answer: yes, yes they did.

  • @johnnyjacuzzi7498
    @johnnyjacuzzi7498 2 года назад +756

    RIP Gary Webb, and a huge thank you to Robert Parry.

  • @Travelei
    @Travelei 2 года назад +1182

    RIP Gary Webb, A TRUE HERO

    • @hehe2352
      @hehe2352 2 года назад

      Who is Gary web?

    • @shadowdude5388
      @shadowdude5388 2 года назад

      @@hehe2352 who

    • @Nicoricanmarxist
      @Nicoricanmarxist 2 года назад +30

      I can belive that they dont mention that Gary Web was MURDERED by the CIA, NOT A SUICDE!

    • @blznft9513
      @blznft9513 2 года назад +38

      @@hehe2352 He wrote the article dark alliance on the Miami newspaper linking the CIA to drug trafficking

    • @donaldsawyer2618
      @donaldsawyer2618 2 года назад +1

      That’s terrible!

  • @NickNishikiyama
    @NickNishikiyama 4 месяца назад +6

    Short answer. YES

  • @ghostfacekilla1928
    @ghostfacekilla1928 2 месяца назад +2

    Snowfall brought me here and I’ve been fascinated by the whole epidemic since

  • @asheru9254
    @asheru9254 2 года назад +472

    RIP Mr. Garry Webb and thank you for exposing the CIA criminal activities

    • @fisherburch5729
      @fisherburch5729 2 года назад

      wtf is ur pfp

    • @iblazeit420x9
      @iblazeit420x9 2 года назад

      @@fisherburch5729 lol wtf

    • @irishmac7495
      @irishmac7495 2 года назад +7

      True and he happened to have commit suicide like lots of people who have spoke out about sensitive information

    • @johnwalters7415
      @johnwalters7415 2 года назад +12

      Yeah how did he shoot himself 2 times in the head?

    • @CenlaSelfDefenseConcepts
      @CenlaSelfDefenseConcepts Год назад +6

      You never want to win the CIA award for excellence in journalism

  • @orlandomorales8177
    @orlandomorales8177 2 года назад +969

    Someone who puts his life at risk for the sake of Truth to be known this is a hero! Rest in peace mr. Webb never forgotten, thank you

    • @VaL-ln3im
      @VaL-ln3im 2 года назад +30

      Wish we still had this type of journalism today. Now they just push propaganda for coins

    • @jamesjansen3057
      @jamesjansen3057 Год назад +9

      Right there alongside Edward Snowden real patriots!!!!

    • @bounjamin
      @bounjamin Год назад

      Well said

    • @dieauferstehung
      @dieauferstehung Год назад

      leftist conspiracy theories with no base to reality will be credited but the Liberals being child groomers is literally being called "insane"
      wake up sheeps
      the left LIES they are devils advocates

    • @ithajean
      @ithajean Год назад

      Thank you

  • @austinfinch1795
    @austinfinch1795 7 месяцев назад

    I know you meant Nicaragua but the pronunciation had me repeating that over and over again.

  • @toaster4490
    @toaster4490 2 года назад +388

    “Died by suicide” lmao he had two bullet wounds in his head and the handgun they found with him had a full magazine +1 clearly showing his gun had never been fired but yes… suicide

    • @boxingmotoman
      @boxingmotoman 2 года назад +3

      Source?

    • @sizzle7578
      @sizzle7578 2 года назад +1

      @@boxingmotoman names Gary Webb I think

    • @boxingmotoman
      @boxingmotoman 2 года назад +3

      @MannyP Thank you Sir. It boggles my mind that if the media outlets attacked him and used the point and deflect strategy during the time he was alive. But he died and now they would say foul play?
      There is a conflict of interest when you bring in the news to the masses and no one ever fact checks.

    • @niklascarlsson2841
      @niklascarlsson2841 2 года назад +9

      Maybe he reloaded before he died

    • @the13xiii52
      @the13xiii52 2 года назад +3

      Also the gun was in his weak hand.

  • @MrIanWebb
    @MrIanWebb Год назад +2123

    This is one of the best summarizations of this complex story. Tremendous amounts of research went into this piece to get it right. Well done, my hat goes off to you, Vice. - Ian Webb (son of Gary Webb)

    • @guccipucci3941
      @guccipucci3941 Год назад +129

      Me when I purposefully spread false information

    • @jimmybooki4281
      @jimmybooki4281 Год назад

      The CIA did exactly the same thing El Chapo & Pablo did.Imported & exported drugs & weapons & cash.Somehow they think they allowed.Vietnam.CIA could sell ice to the eskimos.

    • @jimmybooki4281
      @jimmybooki4281 Год назад +74

      Your old man will one day be recognised for bringing this to light.The way he was treated was abhorrent.To this day not one person acting on behalf of the CIA has been brought to justice.There must be justice or this will keep on happening.Surely this could not be the lesser evil to obtain an objective in a foreign land.Mr Webb did a better job protecting the community then the CIA ever did.

    • @dogbeardbirdbeer
      @dogbeardbirdbeer Год назад +54

      Hi, Ian.
      Your father is a hero.
      I want to ask you... do you believe that your father actually took his own life?

    • @lauraly2712
      @lauraly2712 Год назад +10

      This piece completely relies on what was said by 5 sources at the most, so what's up with the "tremendous amounts of research?" Your father made have done much research but Vice's piece leaves very much unexplained. They couldn't even describe how the cocaine was supposed to have gotten from the fields and smuggled into the U.S. The contras were encamped in Honduras and coca is not grown in those areas of Central America to which they had access. They had no ships, motor boats, or planes for transporting contraband from the tiny area where governments tolerant of them allowed them to operate. They were not like FARC in Colombia that were virtually the masters of much of the coca farming territory in Colombia.
      The street seller in this piece talks about making as much as $3 million a day but the Contras hardly had any money to purchase weapons after U.S. support was halted and some weapons shipments from Iran ended. So how was it that the contras made nothing from this lucrative trade? By 1989 their side had anyway won elections in Nicaragua. The easiest thing is to point a finger at the contras which the NY Times made into some sinister terrorist group at the same time as it kept whitewashing Sandinista terror and suppression of civil freedoms. You father did a great injustice by making it appear that the very few individuals who he heard connected to the drug trade were practically the leaders of the contras, thus throwing a stain on them. He didn't bother to investigate that their association with the contras was long ended and the contras themselves looked askance at them. It would be good if actual research was undertaken both on the crack trade and the contras. A report consisting of quick not taking on what others say is not what qualifies as genuine research.

  • @Divino_1
    @Divino_1 7 месяцев назад

    Seeing vice telling actual news is strange.

  • @normanmason3623
    @normanmason3623 24 дня назад +1

    Good job Young Man

  • @Atlastheyote222
    @Atlastheyote222 2 года назад +336

    CIA: *sells crack in low income areas
    Also CIA: “we have a crack epidemic and we need to stop it”

    • @Orcawhale1
      @Orcawhale1 2 года назад +3

      Did you even watch the video? It clearly states the opposite.

    • @micheleberg4922
      @micheleberg4922 2 года назад +5

      @N.A.R (NEW AGE REPUBLICAN PARTY) what do you mean not true, we’re you not alive around that time? THEY LITERALLY ADMITTED TO IT!

    • @micheleberg4922
      @micheleberg4922 2 года назад

      @N.A.R (NEW AGE REPUBLICAN PARTY) tell me you didn’t watch the whole video without telling me

    • @blowc1612
      @blowc1612 2 года назад +3

      Exactly! So guess what? They’ll get the money they need to send troops and operate in South America to control it in the disguise of Drug War to the world.

  • @LJDS1979
    @LJDS1979 2 года назад +273

    Former Colonel Oliver North took the fall for this publicly. I vaguely remember the congressional hearings. Of course, he would go on to write NY Times best seller and get his own TV show, while Gary Webb just ended up dead.

    • @justinhearst
      @justinhearst 2 года назад +24

      He Got the glory because the Conservacucks were so scared of "communism", that they wanted a hero and the same conservatives were trying to distract from the investigation saying it was a waste of money.

    • @Blashmack
      @Blashmack 2 года назад +2

      @@justinhearst Amen

    • @curtisthomas2670
      @curtisthomas2670 2 года назад +8

      Good ol'Bill Barr was all up in that covering up sh*t, it was he that advised that Ollie and the others got pardoned

    • @tonyjohnson3717
      @tonyjohnson3717 2 года назад +6

      You mean the tale of Ollie north. I heard there is unrecovered gold hidden somewhere in Langley falls Virginia.

    • @NoLyinEvry1sDyin
      @NoLyinEvry1sDyin 2 года назад +6

      Dead with 2 self inflicted gunshot wounds to the dome.. cause that makes sense....

  • @shawnbulger6894
    @shawnbulger6894 14 дней назад

    I remember when that stuff hit my neighborhood it totally destroyed it day by day.....I can remember seeing drug bust every other week.....Mothers started looking different & father's started abandoning their kid's

  • @RavenKey-hl9ou
    @RavenKey-hl9ou 7 месяцев назад

    They watch you smoke it in the right place, right time.

  • @devinlee3069
    @devinlee3069 Год назад +109

    “Webb was found dead in his Carmichael home on December 10, 2004, with two gunshot wounds to the head. His death was ruled a suicide by the Sacramento County coroner's office. According to a description of Webb's injuries in the Los Angeles Times, he shot himself with a .38 revolver, which he placed near his right ear. The first shot went through his face, and exited at his left cheek. The coroner's staff concluded that the second shot hit an artery.”-from his wiki
    Uhhhh the man was murdered.

    • @bonnano7872
      @bonnano7872 Год назад +4

      Indeed.

    • @chesterjade7630
      @chesterjade7630 Год назад

      Wow how do you shoot yourself twice in the head.

    • @warrenlewis3977
      @warrenlewis3977 Год назад +14

      How do you shoot yourself twice in the head?

    • @squeaky206
      @squeaky206 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@bdog7723Truth be told, the CIA probably shot him and covered it up as a multiple gunshot suicide. Tie up loose ends, you know? There's a reason those investigating the criminal activities of the CIA always suspiciously end up dead: Dorothy Killgalen, John F. Kennedy. And a few others to boot. All martyrs that exposed what the real CIA does: overthrow governments and kill those who speak against its rule.

    • @caseybrooks1715
      @caseybrooks1715 4 месяца назад +2

      Because the first one only went through his face. So he did it again

  • @dblockbass
    @dblockbass 2 года назад +149

    Im surprised there are people that dont know the answer to this this. I had to explain the 80's crack epidemic to my English girlfriend at the time. It sounded like I was describing a movie it was so surreal she couldn't believe it.

    • @kevinmccallister4261
      @kevinmccallister4261 2 года назад +3

      Damn can you try to explain it to me like you did to her?

    • @assasinofpapers
      @assasinofpapers 2 года назад +17

      can you also explain it to me while holding me tight and playing with my hair

    • @nickdoyle3950
      @nickdoyle3950 2 года назад

      @@assasinofpapers 😢

    • @ivanreese7087
      @ivanreese7087 2 года назад +2

      Now she probably watching snowfall like wtf they stolen your story 🤣

    • @blowc1612
      @blowc1612 2 года назад

      @@ivanreese7087 it’s more of the side story in Narcos.. control South America and not let them fall into communist states.

  • @BalgaBear
    @BalgaBear 8 месяцев назад +4

    "We've investigated ourselves, and found no wrong-doing."

  • @ghostprepper5859
    @ghostprepper5859 4 месяца назад

    Dude, I was in the Army and in AIT in fort Jackson SC 1982
    I was in boot camp and while there we saw Sandanison soldiers training.
    They were not over 5' 7 at the most and there packs we're about 2' over there head's.
    We were ordered not to say a word back then but it all came out and the politicians got off Scott Free

  • @ThisGuy76
    @ThisGuy76 2 года назад +136

    Great...so, can I sue the government for the fact that my parents being addicted to crack when I was a child ruined the rest of my life?

    • @earldouglas4645
      @earldouglas4645 2 года назад +6

      No

    • @rolandthethompsongunner64
      @rolandthethompsongunner64 2 года назад +6

      You’d have to sue the CIA specifically. Good luck with that.

    • @johntaranto29
      @johntaranto29 2 года назад +7

      You Couldn't sue the drug dealer even if he's caught redhanded, let alone the cia This is a good thing, drugs should be legal. You can't sue McDonald's cause momma got fat and croaked, can't sue jack daniels cause daddy crashed his truck and had to go to AA. This may sound harsh, but maybe you should sue the people who held the most responsibility with your upbringing, your parents. Or forgive, break the cycle and be an awesome dad or a generally moral and upstanding citizen.

    • @williambeglen4771
      @williambeglen4771 2 года назад +3

      No. Nobody forced them to smoke it. They chose to. Probably, talked into trying it. However, it's not like the CIA had them at gunpoint to smoke it or die. My parents did drugs. It didn't ruin the rest of my life. How did it ruin yours?

    • @earldouglas4645
      @earldouglas4645 2 года назад

      @@williambeglen4771 back then tymes were hard, people wanted to get high real quick &, fast &, crack is gonna do it, what this it looks likes little pieces of broken 🧼

  • @erinmcdonald7781
    @erinmcdonald7781 Год назад +250

    I knew about this story peripherally at the time, doing a paper on the Iran-Contra scandal in highschool, and then later having a friend who was taken down at the peak of her law career because of the extent of her cocaine addiction. I became interested in Gary Webb's work, and was shocked and saddened by his death. I don't know what the statute of limitations are for what the Agency was doing, but even at this late date, some accountability would send a message. Accountability is something that's been lacking too long in certain segments of our society.
    Thank you for keeping this story fresh. This needs to be remembered. 💔🤬

    • @puremed1oninstagramsellsdr67
      @puremed1oninstagramsellsdr67 Год назад

      Check them out ⬆️ 🔌…💯,,,,¿,

    • @scout3058
      @scout3058 Год назад +9

      There will never be accountability. That's not how nations stay afloat. Don't be naive.

    • @t60-flying95
      @t60-flying95 Год назад

      all this because "better dead than red" and "stop the domino effect" and other mccarthyism style anti-comunist crap

    • @scout3058
      @scout3058 Год назад

      @t60-flying At least we know who the real enemy of the US, and common sense is: you.

    • @trent9872
      @trent9872 Год назад

      There will never be accountability because nations care more about fighting their enemies (i.e. Communism in the 80s) than prosecuting CIA agents that looked the other way. Look at Oliver North - he took the fall for the Iran-Contra scandal - where military parts were being sold to Iran in order to give money to the Contras. LOTS of conservatives see him as a hero. He never served time in prison. He got a "suspended prison sentence", parole, and a fine. Heck, the guy had a show on FOX News.

  • @Ter9393
    @Ter9393 2 месяца назад +1

    Nic-a-rah-gyua killed me 😂

  • @RSHjr
    @RSHjr 7 месяцев назад

    Is it even a question anymore at this point?!

  • @VishtheFish101
    @VishtheFish101 2 года назад +781

    RIP Garry Webb, American Hero.
    Also, Webb didn't kill himself.

    • @GiancarloFloyd
      @GiancarloFloyd 2 года назад +103

      Yea most suicide victims don’t shout themselves twice in the head.

    • @Calvin704704
      @Calvin704704 2 года назад +17

      suicided

    • @yake222
      @yake222 2 года назад +44

      that classic suicide method of shooting yourself in the head twice.

    • @blablabla6975
      @blablabla6975 2 года назад +4

      If you start accepting rumors for facts you might as well believe everything on the internet

    • @autoeroticasphyxiationsurv9060
      @autoeroticasphyxiationsurv9060 2 года назад +39

      I love how Vice didn’t even bother going into detail about Webbs “suicide”. Fuckin dorks.

  • @rons2189
    @rons2189 2 года назад +232

    Unfortunately that's hardly the worst thing they've done

  • @skrungy1428
    @skrungy1428 9 месяцев назад

    How come every drug crisis begins with the doctors over prescribed pharmaceuticals? Shouldn’t we take the prescription pad away from them?

  • @derrickforeal
    @derrickforeal 2 года назад +335

    Are politicians known for telling the truth? Nope

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 2 года назад +13

      Look at this nonsense with Afganistan now. CIA didn't know what was going to happen? Please.

    • @chillen9109
      @chillen9109 2 года назад +17

      @Ryan Alex bernies barely an actual socialist, much less a communist so nice try

    • @chriscarter4563
      @chriscarter4563 2 года назад +1

      Wait this doesn't work. We need a yes answer for the question posed in the video lol

    • @Leveezy
      @Leveezy 2 года назад

      💥 ruclips.net/video/iFpjW1eibWI/видео.html 💥

  • @galaxykitten8630
    @galaxykitten8630 2 года назад +468

    Gary Webb's "suicide" was two headshots in his single home. There's a movie about it called kill the messenger.

    • @jbuddycuddie764
      @jbuddycuddie764 2 года назад +19

      Back of the head at that

    • @gutz323
      @gutz323 2 года назад +38

      Seems to be quite a lot of people who commit suicide with 2 shots to the head, that are enemy's of the state.

    • @daltonreid4734
      @daltonreid4734 2 года назад +10

      @@gutz323 how do you shoot your self twice?hmmm

    • @gutz323
      @gutz323 2 года назад +10

      @@daltonreid4734 with great difficulty.

    • @digital_oni
      @digital_oni 2 года назад +20

      @@daltonreid4734 you just gotta press the trigger twice as hard and 2 bullets come out instead of one thank me later

  • @CIA-CYBER-CRIME-DIVISION
    @CIA-CYBER-CRIME-DIVISION 6 месяцев назад +1

    das crazy💀💀

  • @SirHumano97
    @SirHumano97 4 месяца назад +1

    Get rid of all these agencies.

  • @Apollodidyourmom
    @Apollodidyourmom 2 года назад +370

    Powerful piece especially the line, “we like to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs” this friggin country

    • @zumis1011
      @zumis1011 2 года назад +13

      They do that after every one of the videos in this series, pretty great line.

    • @brandonsandoval5633
      @brandonsandoval5633 2 года назад +4

      yup because it really did.

    • @phuckyoutube5927
      @phuckyoutube5927 2 года назад

      People been saying that it's just because their face wasn't on a screen you don't believe them.

    • @Apollodidyourmom
      @Apollodidyourmom 2 года назад +6

      @@phuckyoutube5927 growing up in NYC in the early 90s and seeing your friends becoming junkies, arrested or dying I don’t need to a video to tell me drugs won in the end. I got the in your face education daily homeboy

    • @Apollodidyourmom
      @Apollodidyourmom 2 года назад

      @@zumis1011 exactly bro

  • @cheecharron1244
    @cheecharron1244 2 года назад +473

    I have a friend who was SAS (Australia) during the Vietnam War. He told me that one of his duties was working in 'bagging and tagging' the dead. A part of that job was opening cavities in corpses and then shoving bags of white powder inside. He thought (or knew) that it was heroin. That was what he was directed to do. Often these bodies were destined for San Francisco. I'm confident that he's not lying and is telling the truth.

    • @lukethomeret-duran5273
      @lukethomeret-duran5273 2 года назад +106

      Vietnam along with Afghanistan are 2 of the centers of heroin production. You can look at regions that produce opium and see US intervention and political influence in the regions.

    • @amante104
      @amante104 2 года назад +9

      A black organized crime NYC gangster by the name of Nicky Barnes had his crew hide drugs within the coffins of dead soliders. He got them from the Golden triangle area in southeast Asia and all of this information can be looked up online and of course in books. He got drugs from the Golden triangle inorder to avoid buying drugs at a much higher price from Italian mobsters and also to not have to deal with the Italians anymore. Also SAS is a British special forces unit. They are not from Australia.

    • @williammcbroom6158
      @williammcbroom6158 2 года назад +34

      One of my North Carolina homeboys was part of the very thing you are speaking of and when he put his hands in the cookie jar they sent him to Leavenworth!!

    • @ImperfectionistGaming
      @ImperfectionistGaming 2 года назад +57

      The indignity! To die, thinking you're defending your country, and then they use your dead body to transport drugs and make a buck. I believe the dead are conscious of the things happening around them for a short while after dead, i can only imagine how devastated i would be feeling.

    • @paulodasneves1485
      @paulodasneves1485 2 года назад +14

      @@amante104 wasn't Nicky Barnes , is Frank Lucas who was importing the narcotics.Barnes was Lucas associate.

  • @KMY_
    @KMY_ 2 месяца назад

    I watched snowfall and it brought me here 😂

  • @commiezombie2477
    @commiezombie2477 3 месяца назад +1

    BRUH, Where is "Nicuraguagua"? 😂😂😂

  • @sjoncb
    @sjoncb 2 года назад +564

    Next episode on Vice: Did the US use its military to guard Afghanistan poppy fields?

    • @mylissa2167
      @mylissa2167 2 года назад +18

      This has already been done!

    • @sjoncb
      @sjoncb 2 года назад +5

      @@mylissa2167 Oh! Share the link.

    • @Manuelabor1978
      @Manuelabor1978 2 года назад +8

      And the oil fields.

    • @fistingendakenny8781
      @fistingendakenny8781 2 года назад +9

      @@Manuelabor1978 No, poppy, controlling Russia's heroin supply is way more lucrative than oil

    • @matthewotremba9230
      @matthewotremba9230 2 года назад +18

      Sorta , ya see , the Taliban are a strict bunch that had Poppy growth abolished in the region
      Then we stepped in
      Imagine the U.S. with no drugs to punish
      No drug cases in the courts
      No opium for their Camp David vacations
      The rich have been using opium since it came over on ships straight to Ben Franklin's party's

  • @GNP3WP3W
    @GNP3WP3W 2 года назад +329

    I think it’s important to share that Gary Webb’s “suicide” was from the result of 2 gunshot wounds to the head…

    • @Joe-gw9wh
      @Joe-gw9wh 2 года назад +20

      The back of the head

    • @germanmeza5193
      @germanmeza5193 2 года назад +18

      Double jointed wrists and super trigger finger. Yea. Sounds like suicide

    • @YGR12five7
      @YGR12five7 2 года назад +18

      @@germanmeza5193 that's not how it works. You're done as soon as the first bullet goes in. That bullet is much faster than your finger ever could be

    • @zackklapman3569
      @zackklapman3569 2 года назад +18

      Odd that Vice would leave that out, no?

    • @TheGonzogibby
      @TheGonzogibby 2 года назад +3

      @@zackklapman3569 Who owns vice now? I forgot lol

  • @lauritsgodtliebsen
    @lauritsgodtliebsen 3 месяца назад

    Wonderful documentary but i would have loved to see some of the cities/places mentioned on a map (in the documentary) for the non-american "watcher" it gets a bit confusing :)

  • @lilloggy2599
    @lilloggy2599 3 месяца назад

    Yes

  • @AmerieFanbase
    @AmerieFanbase 2 года назад +103

    if the CIA already introduced MK Ultra, this is clearly smaller than that.

    • @OscarsEditing
      @OscarsEditing 2 года назад +12

      CIA was founded by the Nazi's brought over in project paperclip, hence the German spelling of Mind Kontrol

    • @rons2189
      @rons2189 2 года назад +12

      I remember when I first learned about operation Northwood. That was the first thing someone told me to look into and I realized just how horrible our intelligence agencies were

    • @somefuckingrandom
      @somefuckingrandom 2 года назад +15

      @@OscarsEditing the "MK" in MK Ultra doesn't stand for mind kontrol, it was one of the designations that was used for projects sponsored by the technical service staff of the CIA. Ultra being a former title for the most top secret projects. So "MK Ultra" is "the most classified project under the sponsorship of the technical service staff".
      You will almost never find a secret project that has a name actually related to what the project is about, as naming things that way poses an intelligence risk.

    • @blistersonmyfingers9321
      @blistersonmyfingers9321 2 года назад +1

      @@somefuckingrandom Operation Invade Canada! It's a secret!

    • @_RobBanks
      @_RobBanks 2 года назад +2

      @@OscarsEditing cia was not founded by operation paper clip. Lol, how is that possible when it’s an operation within the cia? Cia was from OSS

  • @A.C.00
    @A.C.00 2 года назад +76

    Most government officials act like they're angry at each other in the public's eye. But behind close doors they're making deals with each other aka extorting each other in our behalf. We get nothing good out of those deals. My observation through time. All we get is a big drama show.

    • @LisaMaryification
      @LisaMaryification 2 года назад +1

      @A.C. Yes, everyone has seen the photo of Trump and the Clinton partying together.

    • @apraew20
      @apraew20 Год назад

      💯

  • @NvmRell
    @NvmRell 4 месяца назад +1

    Heat

  • @user-gb9vv5ey2w
    @user-gb9vv5ey2w Месяц назад

    American Billoionaire Poindexter owned a large piece of land in Honduras that was used as the staging area for the Nicaraguan Contras in their fight the Commies. He also owned the Marfa, TX ranch where Scalia was found dead. He is inexorably intertwined with the intel agencies.

  • @Chantal2468
    @Chantal2468 2 года назад +131

    Delta Variant: I spread faster
    Crack in the 80s: Hold my pipe

    • @LucyGoosey1315
      @LucyGoosey1315 2 года назад +3

      😂😂😂😂😂

    • @alexwillox1529
      @alexwillox1529 2 года назад +5

      Lolololol

    • @jessecantu5130
      @jessecantu5130 2 года назад +5

      I can’t lie I don’t see crack heads down anymore they live until 50 60 unlike these young pill poppers they die at 19

    • @Anonymous_________
      @Anonymous_________ 2 года назад

      Pfizer. . . .

    • @fadli_1577
      @fadli_1577 2 года назад

      Wokeness right now : hold my racism

  • @TianZhaoHeavenlyFortune
    @TianZhaoHeavenlyFortune 2 года назад +234

    I think "Did the CIA actually..." should always end with "YES", "Yes they did, yes they have, and yes they more often than not continue to do so"

    • @ayushisharma162
      @ayushisharma162 2 года назад

      lul 😂😂

    • @Dong_Harvey
      @Dong_Harvey 2 года назад

      Plausible Gluttony

    • @james_giant_peach
      @james_giant_peach 2 года назад +4

      Did the CIA actually save millions of people from security threats?

    • @TheKos2Kos
      @TheKos2Kos 2 года назад +7

      @@james_giant_peach how do you measure that? We do knowthey destroyed generations of people that got into crack for business or pleasure and aided in the downfall of the USA

    • @james_giant_peach
      @james_giant_peach 2 года назад +1

      @@TheKos2Kos because the answer to “did the CIA actually” is always yes with this logic. I’m not saying I agree with it but the statement is illogical because you can finish the sentence any way you want.

  • @joseHernandez-xc4ix
    @joseHernandez-xc4ix Месяц назад

    I ha e been told by so many people in South Phoenix Arizona how the government would just give them crack and coke handfuls at a time

  • @CaseyPrice-lc5di
    @CaseyPrice-lc5di 7 месяцев назад

    We invited to the secret service driving program.

  • @chrismurch6037
    @chrismurch6037 Год назад +211

    Gary Webb is a hero and his death is incredibly shady. The govt can shut anyone up they want and will go to no ends to do so.

    • @bluphish6540
      @bluphish6540 Год назад +5

      You have woke up!!

    • @watema3381
      @watema3381 Год назад

      The same way that they were colluding to assassinate Julian Assange on foreign territory within a foreign embassy

    • @rodneyhopper22
      @rodneyhopper22 9 месяцев назад

      Well said that's our government covering up things that they don't want the public media to get their hands on ànd put out in the News and make it world knowing of it

    • @swatboy763
      @swatboy763 7 месяцев назад

      @@bluphish6540oh boy we got ourself a conspiracy theorist

    • @cookiesnmemes179
      @cookiesnmemes179 6 месяцев назад +6

      @@swatboy763sorry I guess I don’t believe someone committed suicide by shooting themselves TWICE in the BACK of the head

  • @willmartelli6572
    @willmartelli6572 2 года назад +80

    "we'd like to congratulate Drugs, for winning the war on drugs." lol. This is EXACTLY what that show Snowfall is about.

    • @viatazine
      @viatazine 2 года назад +7

      such a good show, it’s pretty accurate too

    • @dennispodiapolski9763
      @dennispodiapolski9763 2 года назад +3

      Yea I saw this pop up on my YT recommended after watching it lol

  • @GoinGorillaTV-ei6qz
    @GoinGorillaTV-ei6qz 3 месяца назад +2

    I already knew this. Snowfall taught me.

    • @FireBen31
      @FireBen31 3 месяца назад

      I kinda learned from Snowfall

  • @rajanfellows3343
    @rajanfellows3343 Месяц назад

    That last line “we like to congratulate drugs, for winning the war on drugs,” pretty much sums it up lol.

  • @StreyX
    @StreyX 2 года назад +50

    TLDW: They didn't directly sell it, but they allowed and protected drug kingpins that did.

    • @support_theory8754
      @support_theory8754 2 года назад +8

      Aiding and abetting

    • @greasecheeks165
      @greasecheeks165 2 года назад

      You don't know stfu

    • @nodoubt3605
      @nodoubt3605 2 года назад +2

      Whats the difference!!!

    • @HypnoChode74
      @HypnoChode74 2 года назад +1

      They still sold it to them regardless

    • @support_theory8754
      @support_theory8754 2 года назад +3

      @@HypnoChode74 It essentially makes the CIA the kingpin. The kingpin will use other people distant and beneath them so there is a lessened and indirect connection. It's bullshit they didn't at least get pinned for aiding and abetting. Distance doesn't make the kingpin any less guilty.

  • @animalworld5296
    @animalworld5296 2 года назад +237

    the show ''snowfall'' does a great job covering this topic.

    • @AE-wi3zb
      @AE-wi3zb 2 года назад +16

      It’s a good show it’s just messed up the creator of snowfall took the show from Rick Ross

    • @ovoxxoriginal8
      @ovoxxoriginal8 2 года назад +8

      Franklin knows what’s up

    • @mechagorilla518
      @mechagorilla518 2 года назад +6

      Broooo snowfall is so good! One of my favorite shows

    • @calebrichardson9573
      @calebrichardson9573 2 года назад

      I love that show. one of my favorites

    • @livefree316
      @livefree316 2 года назад +1

      Well let's get high let's get high on the uncut how many goes by she's spice has the beautiful the supernatural high of Jesus Christ is the greatest. 🙏🏼❤️✝️

  • @BMAN1860
    @BMAN1860 5 месяцев назад

    Haven’t watched this fully yet. Watched others. One claimed a rogue CIA agent started popularizing the production of craxk cocaine

  • @tailorforeman7082
    @tailorforeman7082 15 дней назад

    1:29 what country is that sir?!?!

  • @VICE
    @VICE  2 года назад +599

    Watch more from this series: Why Mexican Cartels Use American Guns - ruclips.net/video/388wlVWxGz0/видео.html

    • @themanwnoname3454
      @themanwnoname3454 2 года назад +8

      2021(G) “Respect and dignity.” Furthermore:

    • @slickrick2420
      @slickrick2420 2 года назад +6

      @@Zatvornik I think you forgot to switch account, Russian shill

    • @siryes2846
      @siryes2846 2 года назад +10

      They use them cause we make the best guns in the world. Just like they make the best dope. Seems fitting

    • @wudly9195
      @wudly9195 2 года назад +9

      Are you people capable of doing a story these days without inserting race Into it ? The CIA sold drugs for *money*, not because they wanted to keep the black community down . They are corrupt, and drug dealing is one of the many things they did. As well as torture, unlawful surveillance of American citizens , and human trafficking .

    • @wudly9195
      @wudly9195 2 года назад +7

      @@slickrick2420 This video is about the CIA being corrupt , but you believe the bullshit the CIA said about Russia ??? Google irony .

  • @darrelldyer7291
    @darrelldyer7291 Год назад +228

    In the Air Force I was a flight crew member on C-130's stationed at Pope AFB in the 90's. We routinely flew the CIA to South/Central America, and were told we did not have to clear customs on return.

    • @zacharymcneely6039
      @zacharymcneely6039 Год назад

      lmao gangster

    • @dimmupelto
      @dimmupelto Год назад +2

      SUUUUUUUURE you did champ.

    • @angiemichele313
      @angiemichele313 Год назад +46

      @@dimmupelto you do realize ppl like that do exist right💀 your life might be better if you don’t think everything is a lie when someone says something LMAO

    • @ThunderboltWisdom
      @ThunderboltWisdom Год назад +10

      @@dimmupelto If there's one place where I wouldn't be surprised to hear a story like that is a forum that has hundreds of millions of users. Like RUclips.

    • @Robert-ds8ec
      @Robert-ds8ec Год назад

      Hehehe can you say Iran Contra......hated what the assholes did to Colonel North.....scapegoat in my opinion

  • @ryangutierrez3523
    @ryangutierrez3523 4 месяца назад

    The Messenger is a great movie to watch if you want more info about this

  • @mikeg3372
    @mikeg3372 8 месяцев назад

    If it's criminal the government is involved.

  • @Brandonhayhew
    @Brandonhayhew Год назад +315

    CIA needs to be held accountability and be questioned

    • @MusMasi
      @MusMasi Год назад +95

      they have they questioned themselves and decided to give themselves raises.

    • @Brandonhayhew
      @Brandonhayhew Год назад +26

      @@MusMasi then this country has no accountability nor questions the legitimacy of the government. This whole country is gonna be mess

    • @arky1790
      @arky1790 Год назад +7

      LOL

    • @usualdosage7287
      @usualdosage7287 Год назад

      Anytime that happens they get killed

    • @jalenmcentyre1880
      @jalenmcentyre1880 Год назад +4

      By who?

  • @howelln13
    @howelln13 2 года назад +38

    This messed up a whole generation... I lost my mom to crack. " Government tried to stop me before I even got here."

    • @michaelcabada2933
      @michaelcabada2933 2 года назад +1

      Your mom try to stop you before you got here nobody forced her to smoke crack bro

    • @howelln13
      @howelln13 2 года назад +12

      @@michaelcabada2933 please... America is built off of Racism, Here's a great example or did it just go over your head.🤣🤣

    • @albertrobinson4133
      @albertrobinson4133 2 года назад +1

      @@michaelcabada2933 Sound like u need to be educated. Straight clown man