This collection of texts, images, and audio files is a copy of the online "library" that accompanied the publication of Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" series and his follow-up reporting for the San Jose Mercury News from 1996-97 about the CIA's role in the crack cocaine epidemic in the 1980s. It provides a rich collection of primary sources that Webb used as the basis of his stories.The "library", along with a guide to it, may be found here via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/19961220020519/http://www.sjmercury.com/drugs/library.htm The original series by Webb from 1996 may be found here: http://web.archive.org/web/19961220020436/http://www.sjmercury.com/drugs/stories.htm . His follow-up reporting in 1996-7 may be found here: http://web.archive.org/web/19961220021057/http://www.sjmercury.com/drugs/postscriptstart.htm