Tupac's Murder Was Arranged By The CIA, New Book Claims

It is believed that Tupac and Suge Knight, the owner of Death Row Records which signed Tupac, were affiliated with the Bloods.

U.S. intelligence agencies were concerned about the growing politicization of the street gangs and Tupac was considered to be at the forefront of the movement to broker peace between the Bloods and Crips and politicize them.

The intelligence agencies feared that peace between the rival gangs Bloods and the Crips gangs under Tupac's initiative could eventually lead to their emergence as a formidable political force.

The authorities were very concerned about Tupac's influence and the politicizing of street gangs and they feared that the street gangs "were replacing Communism as the major subversive threat in America," according to John Potash in his controversial book.

The murder of Tupac and later Notorious B.I.G. was in line with the policy of the intelligence agencies to counter and suppress what they believed to be the growing politicization of the street gangs.

A theory put forward by the former Los Angeles police detective Greg Kading, in his controversial book Murder Rap, claimed that, based on his investigations, Tupac was murdered by Compton Crip gang member Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, a few months after Sean "P Diddy" Combs offered $1 million to Anderson's uncle Duane Keith "Keffe D" Davis -- also a Crips gang member -- to kill Tupac and his Death Row boss, Suge Knight.

Kading thus claimed that Tupac's death was a contract killing orchestrated by Sean "P Diddy" Combs to eliminate his rap rival.

But Diddy has described Kading's claim as "pure fiction and completely ridiculous."

According to Potash, Tupac had been in the cross hairs of the law enforcement for some time before he was murdered and he had a tumultuous relationship with them. The law enforcement allegedly harassed Tupac and arrested him on multiple occasions on trumped-up charges, most of which were later dismissed.

Potash also claimed in his book that the law enforcement has a history of targeting "leftist" musicians, such as John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, and Kurt Cobain.

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