#Media
17 entries tagged Media.
People (1)
- Robert Maxwell Robert Maxwell was a British media proprietor, Labour MP, and alleged intelligence asset for Mossad, MI6, and the KGB, whose alleged role as the primary international distributor of backdoored PROMIS software to foreign governments became central to the INSLAW scandal narrative; he was found dead in the Atlantic Ocean on November 5, 1991, three months after Danny Casolaro's death.
Organizations (16)
- AP The Associated Press was the news service whose reporters Robert Parry and Brian Barger broke early stories on Contra drug trafficking that were suppressed by editors.
- Commonwealth Club The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco hosted Gary Webb for a speaking engagement after the Dark Alliance series was published, amid the media controversy.
- Esquire *Esquire* is an USA magazine. In October 1991, it published an article by Craig Unger that repeated Ari Ben-Menashe allegations that Robert McFarlane had been recruited by Rafi Eitan and named Robert McFarlane as 'Mr. X' in the Jonathan Pollard case.
- Los Angeles Times Largest newspaper in the western United States that published the 1996 attack on the Dark Alliance series, led by Washington bureau chief Doyle McManus who had previously spread a 1984 CIA leak falsely accusing Sandinista officials of drug trafficking.
- Miami Herald The Miami Herald was the Florida newspaper that reported on Contra activities and Norwin Meneses's drug trafficking operations based in the Miami area.
- New York Times The New York Times initially ignored Contra drug trafficking stories in the 1980s, then attacked the Dark Alliance series in 1996, before ultimately confirming key elements of the CIA-Contra drug connection in 1998.
- Newsweek Newsweek was a major American news magazine that covered the Dark Alliance story, calling it a powerful series.
- Ocho Group The Ocho Group was a chain of five small newspapers in Peru. Abimael Guzman Reynoso, the leader of the Shining Path, requested that Israel purchase this newspaper chain on the movement's behalf as part of a deal to secure rare minerals for Israel...
- Radio Cairo Radio Cairo is an Egypt radio station. It announced the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser from a heart attack, twenty minutes after Uri Geller purportedly predicted it during a Telepathy demonstration in Tel Aviv.[^1]
- San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Chronicle was a Bay Area newspaper that reported on aspects of the Contra-connected drug trafficking operations centered in San Francisco.
- San Jose Mercury News The San Jose Mercury News published the Dark Alliance series in August 1996, using the Internet to share source documents with the public in an unprecedented act of journalistic transparency.
- The Age *The Age* is an Australia newspaper based in Melbourne. Oscar Guerrero attempted to sell photographs of Israel nuclear facility, provided by Mordecai Vanunu, to *The Age*, but was rejected.
- The Sunday Mirror *The Sunday Mirror* is a British newspaper. Robert Maxwell publishing empire included *The Sunday Mirror*.[^1]
- The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times* is a British newspaper. It struck a deal with Oscar Guerrero to publish Mordecai Vanunu story and photographs of Israel nuclear facility.
- Time Time magazine covered the Dark Alliance story, calling it the hottest topic in black America during the height of the public reaction in 1996.
- Washington Post Major national newspaper whose national security reporter Walter Pincus, a former CIA operative, led the first major media attack on the Dark Alliance series.