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Journalist Gary Webb’s Story Told In ‘Kill The Messenger’
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Kill the Messenger is based on the true story of a reporter at the San Jose Mercury-News who uncovers the CIA’s role in arming the Nicaraguan Contras, then becomes the target of a smear campaign.
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Now to a tale about a man pushed to his limits. In 1996, San Jose Mercury news reporter Gary Webb published a series of articles under the headline, “Dark Alliance.” The story behind those stories has now been made into a feature film called, “Kill The Messenger.” Film critic Kenneth Turan has this review.
KENNETH TURAN, BYLINE: Can some stories be too true to tell? Can telling the truth ruin your life instead of setting you free? These are some of the issues facing journalist Gary Webb as he starts to investigate a potential bombshell. Did elements in the CIA make common cause with Central American drug dealers? Listen as Webb, played by Jeremy Renner, fills in his editors.
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JEREMY RENNER: (As Gary Webb) So one of the DEA’s most wanted, not only not in jail for eternity, but apparently on a government payroll, admitting in open court that he brought in thousands of kilos of cocaine to the U.S. every day for them.
OLIVER PLATT: (As Jerry Ceppos) For who?
RENNER: (As Gary Webb) The U.S. government – or with them – or at least while they were looking the other way.
PLATT: (As Jerry Ceppos) Jesus.
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD: (As Anna Simons) This is the biggest story the Merc’s ever had.
PLATT: (As Jerry Ceppos) That’s what worries me.
TURAN: “Kill The Messenger” is an energetic film that spins a fast-moving tale. It applauds the nerve needed to take on the establishment and warns against the fierce vengeance those in power will take if you tread on their toes. “Kill The Messenger” benefits from a confident, convincing performance by Renner. He digs into the role with the same won’t-let-go fierceness Webb himself displayed when newsworthy information came his way, even when government agents try their best to dissuade him.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, “KILL THE MESSENGER”)
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) This is a little awkward for us, but you’re getting into some sensitive areas. There are ongoing operations you’re in danger of exposing, operations that have taken months, years to set up, thousands of man-hours, millions to fund.
TURAN: When the Mercury News publishes the “Dark Alliance” story, it does explode like a bomb. But the explosion damaged Webb more than anyone else. For what no one counted on was that the media establishment, elite newspapers like The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, would not take kindly to being beaten to a story of this magnitude. In over his head in ways he never anticipated, Webb became a journalistic pariah for telling the story he believed in. As its title indicates, “Kill The Messenger” is a cautionary tale, but for crusading journalists, keeping yourself safe from Gary Webb’s fate may be easier said than done.
MARTIN: Kenneth Turan reviews movies for MORNING EDITION and The LA Times. This MORNING EDITION from NPR News.
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QKENCHANT was a Central Intelligence Agency project used to provide security approvals on non-Agency personnel and facilities.[1]
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The project[edit]
In a memorandum to Assassination Records Review Board, dated 18 September 1998, Central Intelligence Agency states the following:QKENCHANT was the name of a [Central Intelligence] Agency project used to provide security approvals on non-Agency personnel and facilities.[1]
In a memorandum for “JFK Declassification Project of CIA, dated 27 February 1998, the [redacted] sender entity states:QKENCHANT was a project for obtaining clearances, that is, Provisional Covert Security Approvals (PCSA) and Covert Security Approvals (CSA), with the office of security in connection with the acquisition of Directorate of Operations guidelines require that a PCSA/CSA be obtained in most instances before a <redacted> entity can be used as a <redacted>.[1]
E. Howard Hunt[edit]
Intelligence officer E. Howard Hunt was associated with QKENCHANT. Hunt, with G. Gordon Liddy and others, was one of the White House’s “plumbers”—a secret team of operatives charged with fixing “leaks”.[2]
Dynastic Successions Book 