Another issue of CIA vulnerability is the long involvement with drug trafficking.

Pablo Escobar’s son on his father as a CIA asset/finance partner

DEA head Rob Bonner on CIA cocaine smuggling

Tosh Plumless talking about murder of a DEA agent

Nick Schou article on CIA airline for drug running

Quotations from DEA agents, John Kerry, etc. on CIA drug running

McCoy, Alfred W. The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade: Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Colombia. Rev. ed. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books : Distributed by Independent Publishers Group, 2003.

Levine, Michael, and Laura Kavanau-Levine. The Big White Lie: The Deep Cover Operation That Exposed the CIA Sabotage of the Drug War : An Undercover Odyssey. Lexington, KY: Michael Levine, 2013.

There are many sources backing up the essence of Gary Webb’s reporting on Contra drug running leading to large crack cocaine sales in LA, and Cleveland through Rick Ross and others. There are several stories linking CIA to Webb’s death, including efforts to squash him in the media and the fact that his death was almost certainly not a suicide, with two shots to the head from a non-automatic weapon.