Kill the Messenger

00:30:05,748 --> 00:30:08,322 This is the biggest story the Merc's ever had. 516 00:30:08,391 --> 00:30:11,762 That's what worries me. A lot of blind spots, you know? 517 00:30:11,874 --> 00:30:14,243 We don't know Washington. We don't do International. 518 00:30:14,357 --> 00:30:15,199 We do now. 519 00:30:15,277 --> 00:30:18,170 We do, do we? How many CIA sources to you have? 520 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,244 - None yet. - Get one. 521 00:30:21,764 --> 00:30:23,530 What are they saying officially? 522 00:30:23,966 --> 00:30:25,379 They're not even calling me back. 523 00:30:26,769 --> 00:30:28,341 Holy shit. 524 00:30:29,532 --> 00:30:30,659 Gary... 525 00:30:30,773 --> 00:30:33,620 You get some sources on the record, see where we're at. 526 00:30:33,696 --> 00:30:35,348 Watch your ass. 527 00:30:39,942 --> 00:30:43,267 <i>The success of Communism in Central America poses the threat...</i> 528 00:30:43,386 --> 00:30:47,600 <i>that a hundred million people from Panama to the open border at our south...</i> 529 00:30:47,670 --> 00:30:50,756 <i>could come under the control of pro-Soviet regimes.</i> 530 00:30:50,953 --> 00:30:52,923 <i>If we cut off the freedom fighters...</i> 531 00:30:52,995 --> 00:30:57,163 <i>we will be giving the Soviets a free hand in Central America.</i> 532 00:32:06,469 --> 00:32:08,199 Mr.Meneses? 533 00:32:09,351 --> 00:32:12,039 Hi. Gary Webb. How are you? 534 00:32:13,436 --> 00:32:16,568 Ok. What took you so long? 535 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:19,526 How's that? 536 00:32:19,682 --> 00:32:22,164 No other reporter has ever tried to find me. 537 00:32:23,085 --> 00:32:25,215 Are you a friend, Mr. Webb? 538 00:32:25,287 --> 00:32:28,214 Because your country is no longer a friend of mine. 539 00:32:28,651 --> 00:32:30,416 I'm not an enemy. 540 00:32:33,696 --> 00:32:34,937 You play golf? 541 00:32:36,899 --> 00:32:38,390 Hockey. 542 00:32:39,141 --> 00:32:41,430 Step into my parlor. 543 00:32:57,039 --> 00:32:58,405 The five iron. 544 00:32:58,921 --> 00:33:00,925 A perfectly designed club. 545 00:33:01,564 --> 00:33:05,253 In golf, if you have a five iron, you don't need anything else. 546 00:33:05,327 --> 00:33:09,097 If you use it, like a tool. You can carve any shot in the game. 547 00:33:09,171 --> 00:33:12,736 You can even slice a man open if you know how to use it properly. 548 00:33:18,180 --> 00:33:20,584 So, guns for drugs... 549 00:33:22,024 --> 00:33:25,429 You know, it's easy to think that this situation was only about drugs. 550 00:33:25,548 --> 00:33:27,951 But you need to look at it from our point of view. 551 00:33:28,030 --> 00:33:31,276 If the Contra movement would have no friends and no money... 552 00:33:31,353 --> 00:33:34,052 we would have been forced to live under a government that tells you what to say, 553 00:33:34,076 --> 00:33:36,445 what not to say, what to think, what not to think. 554 00:33:36,519 --> 00:33:38,728 If you were me, would you sit still and watch as your 555 00:33:38,801 --> 00:33:39,290 children are forced... 556 00:33:39,401 --> 00:33:45,176 to live a life of irrelevance and servitude? 557 00:33:45,407 --> 00:33:47,298 And you watched from the deck of your yacht? 558 00:33:47,369 --> 00:33:48,736 My yacht? 559 00:33:48,811 --> 00:33:52,979 Norwin, you were arrested for trafficking narcotics for the first time in 1975. 560 00:33:53,055 --> 00:33:55,344 That's ten years before the Contra war. 561 00:33:55,818 --> 00:33:58,665 Come on, you're not a freedom fighter. 562 00:33:59,301 --> 00:34:01,305 I thought you were my friend. 563 00:34:01,544 --> 00:34:03,229 Just looking for the truth. 564 00:34:03,305 --> 00:34:05,116 Well you're gonna get the truth. 565 00:34:05,187 --> 00:34:07,351 You got someone else down here I could talk to? 566 00:34:07,469 --> 00:34:10,123 I can introduce you to my banker, Mr. Baier. 567 00:34:10,192 --> 00:34:11,798 I'd like that. 568 00:34:19,041 --> 00:34:21,171 Come, I show you the airstrip now. 569 00:34:24,406 --> 00:34:25,853 <i>So when did all of this start?</i> 570 00:34:26,048 --> 00:34:29,498 They were always looking for ways to raise money to fight this war. 571 00:34:30,332 --> 00:34:32,496 There was this one time when Ollie... 572 00:34:33,215 --> 00:34:35,698 Ollie went to his friends in Washington, 573 00:34:35,858 --> 00:34:39,149 - and this is years ago... - Oliver North? 574 00:34:39,221 --> 00:34:40,634 Oliver North. 575 00:34:40,823 --> 00:34:43,591 No, Oliver Hardy. Yes, Oliver North. 576 00:34:43,666 --> 00:34:47,116 So he said why don't we use the cash seized from the cocaine arrests... 577 00:34:47,189 --> 00:34:49,558 to fund and support the Contra war? 578 00:34:49,672 --> 00:34:51,323 Of course, they declined you know. 579 00:34:51,393 --> 00:34:52,441 But as you can se