The Mammoth Book of Cover-Ups

in naval witness interviews of a Russian submarine in the Shelburne area, it is speculated the Shag Harbour UFO was a crashed Russian “sputnik” and that Moscow dispatched the subs to retrieve the object; or that the craft and lights witnessed by Shag Harbour residents belonged to RCN antisubmarine units, their earthly presence distorted by moonlight on water.

Canadian/US authorities covered up truth of alien UFO crash at Shag Harbour: ALERT LEVEL 4

Further Reading

Don Ledger, Chris Styles and Whitley Strieber, Dark Object: The World’s Only Government- Documented UFO Crash, 2001

Tupac Shakur

On 7 September 1996 rap superstar Tupac Shakur was mortally hit four times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, after coming out of the prizefight between Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon. What Elvis Presley was to white-boy rock’n’roll in the 50s, what John Lennon was to the freaks of the 60s, Tupac was to the hip-hop scene of the 90s. Now rap found its icon removed in suspicious circumstances. To this day nobody has ever been charged with Tupac’s homicide. But, then, is “2pac” really dead?

Tupac Shakur was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1971. His given name was Lesane Parish Crooks but it was later changed by his mother, Afeni Shakur, a Black Panther, to Tupac Amaru Shakur. During his teens he studied dance and theatre at Baltimore School for the Arts, and in 1991 he won a lead part in the gangster film Juice. That same year, Tupac made his first rap album—and had his first big, violent run-in with police, when he was beaten up by Oakland’s finest. Turning the tables in Atlanta, he shot two policemen. Charges against him were dropped because the police were intoxicated, but in 1993 he was sentenced to the penitentiary for sexually assaulting a woman in his hotel room. The vortex of violence and crime in which he found himself gripped ever tighter: while on remand he was shot five times in a New York recording studio, surviving despite a bullet hole in his head. He said he believed his assailants were connected to the Notorious BIG (aka Biggie Smalls, Christopher Wallace), the rap star who had once been Tupac’s friend and was now his rival. The Notorious BIG was signed to Sean “Puffy” Combs’s Bad Boy Records; Tupac was signed to Marion “Suge” Knight’s Death Row Records.

After serving eight months in prison, Tupac was released when “Suge” Knight put up $1.4 million bail. Knight then hustled Tupac into the recording studio, from which emerged the 9-million-selling album All Eyez on Me, with its disturbing video for the single “I Ain’t Mad at Cha” showing Tupac dying in a gundown. Even more weirdly prophetic was the next album, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, released under the pseudonym Makaveli, which overflowed with death imagery. Then, on 7—note that—on 7 September 1996 Tupac was murdered.

The LAPD suspected the killers were members of LA’s infamous Southside gang the Crips, one of whom, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, had been arguing in a hotel lobby with Tupac earlier in the day. Although Anderson was interviewed by the police he was never charged, apparently due to the lack of witnesses willing to come forward. He then inconveniently got himself shot in an unrelated gang killing. The Anderson—Tupac argument took place against a background of historical animosity between the Crips and the Bloods, who provided security for Tupac’s label, Death Row Records. The LAPD Compton Gang Unit privately maintains that Anderson was the shooter in what was essentially a private affair.

In rapland, however, suspicion fell on Tupac’s rival, the Notorious BIG, and his label manager, “Puffy” Combs. Rumours flew that “Biggie” and Combs had paid the Crips to assassinate Tupac, and the Los Angeles Times offered evidence that “Biggie” had sold the Crips the fatal gun and been in town to oversee the hit. Few were surprised when, on 9 March 1997, “Biggie” was shot dead leaving a Vibe magazine party in LA.

Most assumed “Biggie” had been assassinated by a Tupac fan out for revenge, but some began to see the hand of the FBI and government in the Tupac—“Biggie” fallout. Why, they asked, did the authorities fail to protect Yafeu “Kadafi” Fula? Fula, a witness willing to identify Tupac’s killer, was shot down dead shortly afterwards. Could it be because the killer was a government agent? In this scenario, Tupac’s death was an indirect blow against his mother, hated by the FBI for her prominent role in the revolutionary Black Panther Party. An FBI fink in Tupac’s entourage, so the theory goes, persuaded him to leave off his usual bullet-proof vest on the fateful night.

There is also a widespread theory that Tupac faked his death, the main clue being the image of Tupac being crucified a la Jesus on the cover of The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory and the use of the pseudonym “Makaveli”. Machiavelli, the Renaissance philosopher, had written that a staged suicide is a useful way to fool the enemy. If you rearrange the letters of the album name you get: “OK on tha 7th u think I’m dead yet I’m really alive”. Makaveli itself is an anagram for “mak(e) alive”. Adherents of the “7 Theory” also point out that Tupac was shot on the 7th, 7 months after All Eyez on Me was released; and that he lived for 7 days after the shooting. Tupac was to come back to rap land 7 years on (in 2003: he didn’t), but perhaps it was 77 years on.

Why would Tupac fake his own death?

“Ms D” on the Thug Life Army website has the most convincing answer. Tired of being shot at by gangstas, Tupac wanted out, and so he entered Witness Protection, where he received plastic surgery. His mom had, after all, lived underground for years, so it was in the family, so to speak. As for leaked photographs of Tupac on the autopsy table, Ms D details peculiarities—such as the absence of the “50 niggas” tattoo—which suggest that the body belonged to some other stiff. Of course, the photography might have been a con by some wise guy seeking to sell some John Doe’s autopsy snaps as the real Tupac article.

Biggie and Tupac, a documentary by British film-maker Nick Broomfield released in 2002, firmly puts the blame for Tupac’s death on his own record boss, “Suge” Knight. According to Broomfield, Shakur had discovered that Knight was cheating him out of royalties and intended to leave the appropriately named Death Row Records. Figuring Tupac was worth more dead than alive and certainly of no value to him on another label, Knight contracted the hit on Tupac. He then killed “Biggie”. Broomfield’s theory is given substance by Knight’s history of using violence for business ends and by an alleged prison confession. If it was Knight who orchestrated Tupac’s death, he must have had nerves of steel: he was in the car with Shakur at the time and took a (presumably deflected) bullet. Many people have called “Suge” Knight many things, yet none of them has ever said he was a brave soldier.

2pac, RIP? The rapstar may be alive and well and in Witness Protection.

The Notorious BIG contracted the hit on rival Tupac Shakur: ALERT LEVEL 6

Tupac Shakur faked his own death: ALERT LEVEL 6

Further Reading

http://www.thuglifearmy.com/

Karen Silkwood

Shortly after six o’clock on the evening of 13 November 1974, labour activist Karen Silkwood left a union meeting at the Hub Cafe in the city of Crescent, Oklahoma, to drive to Oklahoma City. There she was scheduled to meet New York Times journalist David Burnham to provide him with evidence of safety violations at the Kerr—McGee Cimarron nuclear plant where she was a representative for the Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers Union (OCAW). Silkwood had a bundle of documentation with her in the car.

She never made her Oklahoma City meeting. Her white Honda Civic car left Highway 74, ran along a ditch and hit the side of a concrete culvert. Silkwood was killed outright. Did she fall asleep at the wheel in a tragic accident? Or was her car shunted off the road by someone desperate to stop her whistle-blowing? The controversy eventually reached Hollywood, with Meryl Streep playing the title role in the 1983 movie Silkwood.