Green Gang organization
also: China Green Gang, China's Green Gang, Chinese mafia, Green Gang tough guys
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Claims (22)
Doi Hara associated_with
Green Gang host_asserted
“was the mastermind of the main Korean drug trade who's hung out with all the Japanese top gangsters. And he was on a first name basis with the China Green Gang based in Shanghai. Shanghai was administered by three governments. The biggest w…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Colonel's Corner Book ClubReview Gold Warriors Chapter 2 @ 39:29
Chiang Kai-shek trafficked
Green Gang book_quoted
“In Southeast Asia, since the middle of the 19th century, the opium farms were almost always connected to secret societies that flourished in Chinese communities, meaning Chiang Kai-shek, Taiwanese nationalist. It is now also generally recog…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 45:40
Chiang Kai-shek recruited
Green Gang host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 57:23
Green Gang trafficked
Golden Triangle host_asserted
“He also used his personal yacht for an invasion of Cuba in one of the assassination attempts on Castro. I have that in my notes, too. This ties in the Green Gang, which was the biggest organized crime in China, who were the world's biggest …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 11; BCCI-The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 1) @ 46:03
HSBC laundered_money_for
Green Gang host_asserted
“What's going on across the world at the time is Shanghai is exploding. You know, we're post-opium wars. The opium trade is huge in China. And a lot of that money is funneling through Shanghai. And, of course, HSBC enters the picture as the …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 5:15
Green Gang trafficked
Shanghai host_asserted
“The Green Gang is the biggest opium. That would be the Chinese mafia. They're the biggest opium smugglers in the world. And a guy rises to power there by the name of Du Yusheng. And he got to power by murdering a lot of his competitors. So …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 5:45
Du Yusheng headed
Green Gang host_asserted
“The Green Gang is the biggest opium. That would be the Chinese mafia. They're the biggest opium smugglers in the world. And a guy rises to power there by the name of Du Yusheng. And he got to power by murdering a lot of his competitors. So …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 5:45
Mao Zedong removed_from_power
Green Gang host_asserted
“Isn't that pretty much the recipe for Gladio? Right there. Patterns. A decade before Gladio had ever been invented, they were already doing this. So Mao Zedong comes to power and kicks a lot of those bad guys out. They end up in Hong Kong o…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 9:32
Chiang Kai-shek member_of
Green Gang host_asserted
“all the stay-behind lines. This is what our OSS was building towards. I find one of the other fascinating things about World War II and the OSS is what they were doing in Asia. They'd been working with Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek w…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt. 9; The Ties Between Banking and Intelligence (1 of 2) @ 57:27
Green Gang operated_in
Shanghai host_asserted
“just like we did in Vietnam. So the Chiang himself was not a member of the Green Gang, but his mentor was. So that's his affiliation with it. The Green Gang were fully integrated into the government of Shanghai. Why is that important? Becau…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 49:53
Du Yusheng headed
Green Gang host_asserted
“for the opium smugglers. And Shanghai is under the authority of the UK at this period. Yeah, I believe so. That's correct. It's an international settlement. And you've got the Green Gang is the biggest opium. That would be the Chinese mafia…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 5:15
Luo Menghong headed
Green Gang host_asserted
“that deals with Buddhists and mystics. And their leader was L-U-O Lu, M-E-N-G-H-O-N-G, Ming Hong. And if you guys remember, when we first started talking, when we did the Antony Sutton book on aspects of Hitler and his crew,…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 47:18
Du Yusheng ran
Green Gang host_asserted
“Two kidnapped Mei Ling, the bride of Chiang, to remind the general who was in charge. He already was very rich. He basically was the drug lord of the French concession. There was another guy that basically ran three gangs, the Red Gang, the…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Colonel's Corner Book ClubReview Gold Warriors Chapter 2 @ 41:41
HSBC laundered_money_for
Green Gang host_asserted
“So we get prohibition ends. And of course, the mafia has got to find new markets. This is when Lucky Luciano takes over the five families in New York. We know all about Operation Underworld, so I won't go into that. What's going on across t…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 4:45
Kuomintang did_business_with
Green Gang host_asserted
“She was particularly close to the Chicago outfit of the mob. Mexico had become an important base of operations for drug smuggling with Castello and Carolla. Mexico had become a vital transshipment point for KMT's own drug trafficking during…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 1:34:57
Green Gang spied_on
China host_asserted
“The Green Gang begins conducting espionage activity and political intelligence for the government of Shanghai, which by default is the British. And they also suppress trade unions slash communists. Now, why is that important? Because the tr…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 50:55
Green Gang trafficked
Golden Triangle host_asserted
“all the stay-behind lines. This is what our OSS was building towards. I find one of the other fascinating things about World War II and the OSS is what they were doing in Asia. They'd been working with Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek w…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt. 9; The Ties Between Banking and Intelligence (1 of 2) @ 57:27
Chiang Kai-shek did_business_with
Green Gang host_asserted
“Yeah, I'll take it back a step further. The OSS was operating in China alongside Chiang Kai-shek and his drug pusher, drug mafia. It was called the Green Gang. When Mao Zedong won the war, because when the U.S. pulled its support for Chiang…”
▶ Colonel's Corner Podcast with War Hamster Brady - OPERATION GLADIO 101 @ 41:59
William J. Polk did_business_with
Green Gang host_asserted
“He also used his personal yacht for an invasion of Cuba in one of the assassination attempts on Castro. I have that in my notes, too. This ties in the Green Gang, which was the biggest organized crime in China, who were the world's biggest …”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 1 @ 46:03
Paul Helliwell trafficked
Green Gang host_asserted
“a veteran of the OSS, KMT, because remember, he was the military advisor to Chiang Kai-shek during World War II as the OSS guy, which worked with opium warlords during World War II and made regular payments in opium. Remember, because he wa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 37:39
Lucky Luciano headed
Green Gang host_asserted
“So we get prohibition ends. And of course, the mafia has got to find new markets. This is when Lucky Luciano takes over the five families in New York. We know all about Operation Underworld, so I won't go into that. What's going on across t…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 4:45
Katzenberg member_of
Green Gang host_asserted
“He dispatched a whole series of people over there to basically take control of the narco state. So another guy, one of his guys by the name of Katzenberg, was a high level in the New York Jewish crime syndicate. And he controlled the distri…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 57:17
Mentions (14)
▶ 57:23
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…
▶ 59:06
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 …
▶ 38:09
mainly of Green Gang drug traffickers. And like Tay Lee, he went on to become the architect of the governmental intelligence drug connection, meaning Paul Helliwell did. He basically took over that role for the CIA. As an OPC official, Hell…
▶ 46:10
was achieved with the help of the opium trafficking Green Gang. By the mid-1930s, China was producing seven-eighths of the world's opium supply, and some of it came to China originally via UK's colony, for lack of a better word, India. That…
▶ 46:43
Once the CIA, not even the CIA at the time, the U.S. interest around this began, also drew people like Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano. These contacts with the U.S. mob were apparently not wholly broken by World War II. They were clearly ren…
▶ 48:13
to escape to Taiwan before local arrests were made. A subsequent U.S. report to the U.N. on the incident noted that this activity paralleled the operation of the triad societies in Hong Kong. So you had one element of the Green Gang go to H…
▶ 48:42
was facilitated by the U.S., meaning Chiang Kai-shek, to go to Taiwan. The hip-sing, dope, and other criminal activities like those of several other drug lords predated and outlasted by far the KMT link-up with the Green Gang in 1927. Betwe…
▶ 17:26
It was fine when we did it, though. Yes, yes. They also constructed the Burma Road in 1937 to 38, which linked China to Burma. For drug trafficking. Yes, for the opium trafficking from the Green Gang. Yes. That was U.S. taxpayer money that …
▶ 46:03
He also used his personal yacht for an invasion of Cuba in one of the assassination attempts on Castro. I have that in my notes, too. This ties in the Green Gang, which was the biggest organized crime in China, who were the world's biggest …
▶ 1:19
And the pieces just perfectly fit. It's a pattern that repeats over and over again. And, you know, it's interconnected. So I'm going to skip over some of the stuff that I know the colonel's covered on this channel, like the Green Gang in Ch…
▶ 5:45
The Green Gang is the biggest opium. That would be the Chinese mafia. They're the biggest opium smugglers in the world. And a guy rises to power there by the name of Du Yusheng. And he got to power by murdering a lot of his competitors. So …
▶ 6:14
as the president of the board of opium suppression kind of an interesting portfolio mr du shang has is the head opium smuggler and is also sits on the government board to suppress opium for everybody else but them exactly yes kind of like t…
▶ 6:44
A little curveball gets thrown at him when Japan invades Manchuria in 1931. So D.U. Shang moves his whole operation or himself personally to Hong Kong. And he operates the Green Gang and the opium up until 1949. The OSS got involved about t…
▶ 57:27
all the stay-behind lines. This is what our OSS was building towards. I find one of the other fascinating things about World War II and the OSS is what they were doing in Asia. They'd been working with Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek w…