Mercury News
| Mercury News link | |
|---|---|
| Type | newspaper |
| Founded | 1851-06-20 |
| Author(s) | |
| Source | Link |
| The newspaper which employed Gary Webb who exposed CIA Drug trafficking. The leadership caved under pressure and backed away from the story. | |
The Mercury News, formerly the San Jose Mercury News, employed Gary Webb, who exposed CIA Drug trafficking.
Pressure
Commercially-controlled media attacked Gary Webb, saying sometimes that the revelations in Dark Alliance were unfounded, sometimes that they were nothing new. Operation Mockingbird operatives were employed to confuse and misdirect. A declassified CIA document cites Tucker Carlson's Weekly Standard article, among others, as aiding them in "managing a nightmare."[1] After initially backing him on the story, the leadership of the San Jose Mercury News[Who?] backed away from the story after it gained national traction.[2]