Kill the Messenger

Can you keep a national secret?

A grim, intellectually rigorous account of institutional betrayal and personal destruction, driven by investigative journalism and the paranoia of a man hunted by powerful forces.

A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.