The Devil's Advocate
Call me Dad
i think he connected them when he say avi... he said he went to him with 80k to apologize.. i figure this is when avi dropped what him and reed was doing instead of drugs... so franklin figured reed is into both gun running and drugs.. but most importantly, reed was powerful enough to make a murder charge go awaySo the newspaper/magazine clips were about Avi and his arms deals and he then connected the dots?
now who could make a murder go away? and also run guns and drugs freelance with no muscle? and he's white... "time to research" and then "he's a fukking agent"
frank don't have details or proof.... but he's got a damn good guess from putting all that together