Thatβs right. According to a lawsuit filed by U.S. Tobacco, who is suing its own distributor, the ATF was running a cigarette purchasing operation disguised as a tobacco distributor, all allegedly in an effort to generate black market currency with which the ATF could then use to fund its other off-books operations.
Glad to see a good writeup on the father of the new science. I'll bet much of his inconsistencies in the theory have to do with the universe not being a sphere, but having ellipsoid eccentricities.