The Big White Lie: The Deep Cover Operation That Exposed the CIA Sabotage of the Drug War. (book reviews)

Nation, The, September, 1998 by Kawell, Jo Ann

THE BIG WHITE LIE: The Deep Cover Operation That Exposed the CIA Sabotage of the Drug War. By Michael Levine. Thunder's Mouth. 472 pp. Paper $13.95.

Behind a veil of secrecy, the evil Empire is creating a doomsday army, one that if finished, will become the final cog in the Empire's arsenal of terror and domination.

--Internet promo for Dark Forces, "a Star Wars, 3-D action/adventure game"

When I asked about Gary Webb's book Dark Alliance at my neighborhood bookstore, the clerk, no Gen-Xer, replied, "Oh, is it based on that new computer game? There's a movie, too, isn't there?" At first I found her confusion of the journalist' s controversial investigation of the cocaine trade with LucasArts' Star Wars spinoff, Dark Forces, rather...

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