Green Gang organization
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Claims (3)
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
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
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▶ 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…