Kill The Messenger

Rating:4.0 of 5Total number of episodes:1Last broadcast:18/11/2016 at 11:35
2016
1:47:28

November 18, 2016

Expired 4.0 20 x
Based on the true story of Journalist Gary Webb. The film takes place in the mid-1990s, when Webb uncovered the CIA's past role in importing huge amounts of cocaine into the US that was aggressively sold in ghettos across the country to raise money for the Nicaraguan Contras rebel army. Despite enormous pressure not to, Webb chose to pursue the story and went public with his evidence, publishing the series 'Dark Alliance'. As a result he experienced a vicious smear campaign fueled by the CIA. A...
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