Triads organization
also: Chinese secret societies, triad societies
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“where the farming of opium franchise among the Chinese triads had been resorted to by the British authorities when Chiang Kai-shek basically became an exile of China. So if you go back, and we've talked about this repeatedly, if you go back…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 53:58
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He also was intimately involved in the Laotian opium set up. And they also, he was the guy that was the liaison for bringing all the Tibetans into Colorado as well. Definitely should look him up. A second reason was political to maintain co…
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of the opium trade would help establish this underworld connection of our underworld, the CIA and the mafia, and the underworld of China, i.e. the triads. This question of Chinese alliance with the triads was something that was discussed qu…
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where the farming of opium franchise among the Chinese triads had been resorted to by the British authorities when Chiang Kai-shek basically became an exile of China. So if you go back, and we've talked about this repeatedly, if you go back…
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for opium. So, although the British, by and large, resisted triad KMT offers to mobilize against the Chinese insurgency in Malaya, which really wasn't a Chinese insurgency, it was the indigenous people in Malaya fighting back, trying to get…
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In Thailand, also, the farming of the opium franchise was used by the government as a means of controlling local Chinese populations, and the enormous profits from the opium traffic were traditionally a source of corruption in the governmen…
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It seems indisputable that some elements of the KMT used opium as a means to organize and finance their insurgents efforts into mainland China. It's not surprising the KMT had relied on the triads and gangs involved in the opium traffic. Wh…
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There's an entire underbelly there of the Green Gang, the triads and all of that that came into play with the opium market. Because any time you do covert operations, you're going to get the underbelly people to go along with it. Just like …
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A U.S. government report on the indictments noted that the Tongs' activity possibly paralleled the operations of triad societies in Hong Kong. Like, exactly mirrored. It was also claimed that the profits from narcotic smuggling into the U.S…
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I indicated to them that our discussion through late July did not involve the letter of credit and that the letter of credit developed in late July in Houston. I have given both of them to Riggs, which is one of Khashoggi's employees, name …