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OC Weekly Scribe's Book is the Basis for Upcoming Gary Webb Film
By AAN Staff
april 3, 2008 08:23 am
Kill the Messenger
will tell the story of Webb, the
San Jose Mercury News
reporter who "committed suicide after being the target of a smear campaign when he linked the CIA to a scheme to arm Contra rebels in Nicaragua and import cocaine into California,"
Variety
reports. The Universal film will be based on two books: Webb's own
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
, and
Weekly
staff writer Nick Schou's
Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb
. The screenplay is being written by former
New York Times Magazine
correspondent Peter Landesman.
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