Kill the Messenger Page #3

- That's impossible.

- Is it?

- I'm exaggerating, Fenster?

- Yeah, I hope so.

How do you sell that much

cocaine on the street?

Look here, man, we used to cook it.

With baking soda.

We called it Ready Rock.

Powder was for rich folks.

Holy sh*t.

Look here, man, I was just the elf.

Blandon was Santa Claus.

This is where Ricky ran his operation.

No, don't get out of the car!

Are you out of your f***ing mind?

How did this happen?

Exactly. Which is why we're

going to get the hell out of here.

What about this doesn't piss you off?

It's complicated for me.

Whatever the hell happened,

all this sh*t has run downhill,

right here.

I need to speak with Blandon.

He's a protected witness.

How are you going to do that?

Yes, I know. I can't.

But you can.

Mr. Blandon.

During the years when you

were acting as a paid

informant of the U.S. government.

The years you say you wholesaled cocaine

to my client in Los Angeles...

...was the government aware that you were

smuggling tons of cocaine

into the United States.

Objection. Relevance. Inflammatory.

The government called this witness,

your honor.

He is a paid confidential informant.

The jury has a right to know

the scope of his expertise.

Overruled.

- Approach, your honor?

- Later.

Mr. Blandon?

Yes.

- Yes what?

- The government knew.

- Knew everything?

- Objection. Speculation.

Sustained.

Mr. Blandon...

...how much money did you

take in from cocaine sales

while you were working

for the U.S. government?

One and a half billion dollars.

That's correct.

What did you do with that money?

We made so much money we had to keep an

apartment just to keep the cash.

It was floor to ceiling dollars.

We had to rotate the money

from the top to the bottom...

...to prevent mold from

coming on the money from

the humidity.

What the f*** does this say?

Did he have a partner

or a government agency he

was working with?

Mr. Blandon, were you working

with a partner at that time?

Yes.

Norwin Meneses.

That's correct.

Wait a second, what exactly

is happening here, your honor?

Clearly, this reporter

is giving direction to counsel.

- Approach.

- Thank you.

Your honor, this man

in the first row is a reporter

and he's giving questions to counsel.

If he is, and I'm not saying that he is...

Well, he is.

Ok, he is. But there's nothing in

the rules that says he can't.

I don't like it.

But I'm not going to stop it.

For now.

Then I am compelled to warn

the court that this door leads to

very sensitive national security matters.

Then maybe you shouldn't

have opened it.

Mr. Blandon, is it true

that you and Norwin Meneses...

...were in communication with

the federal government together?

Can you tell us who in the

federal government you

were in communication with?

Who were you working with?

The FBI?

Mr. Dodson can't answer

that question for you, Mr. Blandon.

Remember, you're under oath.

The DEA?

No.

It was the CIA.

The Central Intelligence Agency.

Yes.

So, Mr. Blandon...

...what did the CIA have you do?

Objection! Relevance, your honor!

Overruled. Mr. Blandon,

answer the question.

We were asked to support...

...a free and democratic Nicaragua

- the Contras...

...the rebels...

...by sending planes into

Nicaragua and raising money here

in the U.S. for the war.

Mr. Blandon...

...did the CIA specifically know

that you were selling cocaine...

...to buy guns and supplies

to support its cause?

Objection! This line of

questioning has absolutely no relevance.

Overruled.

They knew who we were.

Why else would they come to us?

The day Ronald Reagan got elected,

the Cubans and the Soviets started triggering...

...revolutions all over

South and Central America.

And when they got Nicaragua...

...that put them fifty miles

from the Panama Canal.

Reagan drew the line in the sand.

And that's where America was

going to win the Cold War. Except...

...Congress hated Reagan's guts,

so they wanted nothing to do with him.

They were never going to

fund his little Contra war.

So the White House needed money.

Lots and lots of money.

Guys, that's the eighties.

It's ten year old news.

What's the story?

Jerry, just let him finish.

Look, one of the DEA's most wanted

- not only not in jail for eternity...

...but apparently

on the government payroll.

Admitting in open court

that he brought in thousands

of kilos of cocaine to the US every day.

For them.

For who?

The US government.

Or with them.

Or at least while

they were looking the other way.

Jesus.

That little stunt

you pulled in that courtroom...

I got complaints

from Justice in Sacramento and Washington.

Yeah, but I got Blandon.

Jerry.

This is the biggest

story the Merc's ever had.

That's what worries me.

A lot of blind spots, you know?

We don't know Washington.

We don't do International.

We do now.

We do, do we? How many

CIA sources to you have?

- None yet.

- Get one.

What are they saying officially?

They're not even calling me back.

Holy sh*t.

Gary...

You get some sources on the record,

see where we're at.

Watch your ass.

The success of Communism in

Central America poses the threat...

...that a hundred million people from Panama

to the open border at our south...

...could come under the control

of pro-Soviet regimes.

If we cut off the freedom fighters...

...we will be giving the Soviets

a free hand in Central America.

Mr.Meneses?

Hi. Gary Webb. How are you?

Ok. What took you so long?

How's that?

No other reporter

has ever tried to find me.

Are you a friend, Mr. Webb?

Because your country

is no longer a friend of mine.

I'm not an enemy.

You play golf?

Hockey.

Step into my parlor.

The five iron.

A perfectly designed club.

In golf, if you have a five iron,

you don't need anything else.

If you use it, like a tool.

You can carve any shot in the game.

You can even slice a man open

if you know how to use it properly.

So, guns for drugs...

You know, it's easy to think that

this situation was only about drugs.

But you need to look at

it from our point of view.

If the Contra movement would

have no friends and no money...

...we would have been forced to live under

a government that tells you what to say,

what not to say, what to think,

what not to think.

If you were me,

would you sit still and watch as your

children are forced...

...to live a life of

irrelevance and servitude?

And you watched

from the deck of your yacht?

My yacht?

Norwin, you were arrested for trafficking

narcotics for the first time in 1975.

That's ten years before the Contra war.

Come on, you're not a freedom fighter.

I thought you were my friend.

Just looking for the truth.

Well you're gonna get the truth.

You got someone else down here

I could talk to?

I can introduce you to my banker, Mr. Baier.

I'd like that.

Come, I show you the airstrip now.

So when did all of this start?

They were always looking

for ways to raise money to fight this war.

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