Parry, Robert. Lost History: Contras, Cocaine and Other Crimes. The Media
Consortium (Suite 102-231, 2200 Wilson Blvd., Arlington VA 22201, Tel:
703-920-1802), 1997. 118 pages.
Robert Parry was a reporter for Associated Press, Newsweek, and the
Public Broadcasting System's "Frontline" program in the 1980s and 1990s.
Disenchanted with mainstream reporting, by 1996 he started a newsletter
and website (www.consortiumnews.com) to support independent journalism.
Parry and Brian Barger broke the story of contra drug-smuggling in 1985,
while working for AP. Despite hearings in Congress during the 1980s,
and numerous instances of drug smuggling by contra supporters, the story
remained on back pages until August, 1996. That's when the San Jose
Mercury News ran a three-part series on the CIA and contra cocaine in
south-central Los Angeles. It was widely noticed, primarily because of
SJMN's high-tech website.
The mainstream press, in synchronized harmony, savaged the Mercury News
for its overreaching journalism. In the process, they neatly managed to
sidestep the real issue -- forget Los Angeles, what about the tons of other
contra-coke and CIA-drug evidence that our puppet press deliberately buried
over the years? In this little self-published book, Parry reviews this
evidence, as well as some of the media's outright lies and manipulations
that kept this story from the American people.
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