Robert Parry

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Robert Parry is a American investigative journalist. He was awarded the George Polk Award for National Reporting in 1984 for his work with the Associated Press on the Iran-Contra story and uncovered Oliver North's involvement in it as a Washington-based correspondent for Newsweek.[1][2] In 1995, he established Consortium News as an online ezine dedicated to investigative journalism. From 2000 to 2004, he worked for the financial wire service Bloomberg.[3]

Major subjects of Parry's articles and reports on Consortium News include the presidency of George W. Bush[4], the career of Army general and Bush Secretary of State Colin Powell (with Norman Solomon)[5], the October Surprise controversy of the 1980 election [6], the Nicaraguan contra-cocaine investigation [7], the efforts to impeach President Clinton [8], right-wing terrorism in Latin America [9], the political influence of Sun Myung Moon[10], mainstream American media imbalance [11], United States Defense Secretary Robert Gates [12], as well as international stories [13].

Parry has written several books, including Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & "Project Truth." (1999) and Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq (2004).

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