Sept 24, 2009
by Daniel Hopsicker
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by Daniel Hopsicker
Just as he said he would, Ruth got rich after returning from Cuba, where a report from the Sheriff of Sarasota County to the Tampa office of the FBI said he took part in the assassination of one of “four or five” men involved in the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
How Stephen Ruth went from being a hired assassin for the CIA to owing back taxes of almost $1 million is the story of the uncontested and uncontrolled growth of the National Security State in the United States of America.
How Ruth made big bucks didn't take a genius, just someone connected, and comes as no big surprise. Like Barry Seal before him he merely applied military cargo-type aircraft to the logistical problem of transporting illegal narcotics from areas of production to areas of consumption.
He provided, in other words, a service which no one but CIA-connected individuals was able to offer without the constant risk of discovery.
In other words, Gary Webb was right.
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