and convicted Los Angeles drug dealer "Freeway" Ricky Ross, whom the Los Angeles Times in 1994 had dubbed the "one outlaw capitalist most responsible for flooding Los Angeles' streets with mass-marketed cocaine." (20 December 1994 p. A20)
The (admittedly sensationalized, but basically accurate) story generated much controversy, and heated denials from the mainstream media (in particular the local paper of record, whose editor Shelby Coffey III couldn't bear the thought of someone else beating his paper out on a major story in his own backyard). This vehement denegation, however, is largely inconsistent with the historical record (some of which has been, and continues to be, reported in these same papers)."
This snippet was taking from a link on Virtual Truth Commission Telling the Truth for a Better America for more information and other stories relating to this snippet you can go to http://www.csun.edu/CommunicationStudies/ben/news/cia/index.html. These articles are not intended to say that this is the only way that drugs are being shipp
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