Hip Sing Tong organization
also: hip sings, hip-sing, Hipsing Tong
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Claims (3)
Lee Ong Lee member_of
Hip Sing Tong host_asserted
“fascinating story. I had no idea what it was. It came up in like two books ago and I'm like, what the hell is it, Tom? It's fascinating, actually. I highly suggest that you go read that article. In the 1930s, the national president of the H…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:00:07
George Yee member_of
Hip Sing Tong host_asserted
“involving the wife of Lucky Luciano's partner, Thomas Penachio. Yee was also involved with hip-sing dope dealers in Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, New York, Cleveland, Dallas, and other important cities. In January 1959, a new generati…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:00:37
Hung Chau Chin member_of
Hip Sing Tong host_asserted
“So without that, Anslinger's refuting the charges would have been hard to believe. First, Chiang Kai-shek's consul general in San Francisco at the time was Hipsing. Of the Hipsing arrest was Hung Chau Chin himself, who narrowly escaped conv…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:02:59
Mentions (8)
▶ 59:38
The worldwide network of Chinese secret societies in the opium traffic extended both before and after World War II to hip sings, one of the Chinese tongs in the U.S., and also to bin kong and other American tongs. If you guys don't know wha…
▶ 1:00:07
fascinating story. I had no idea what it was. It came up in like two books ago and I'm like, what the hell is it, Tom? It's fascinating, actually. I highly suggest that you go read that article. In the 1930s, the national president of the H…
▶ 1:00:37
involving the wife of Lucky Luciano's partner, Thomas Penachio. Yee was also involved with hip-sing dope dealers in Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, New York, Cleveland, Dallas, and other important cities. In January 1959, a new generati…
▶ 1:02:59
So without that, Anslinger's refuting the charges would have been hard to believe. First, Chiang Kai-shek's consul general in San Francisco at the time was Hipsing. Of the Hipsing arrest was Hung Chau Chin himself, who narrowly escaped conv…
▶ 47:43
in San Francisco involved the same Hip Sing Tong as an earlier organized crime drug bust in the 1930s. Significantly, the U.S. officials arranged for the ringleader Chung Wing Fong, an official of the San Francisco Anti-Communist League, wh…
▶ 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…
▶ 49:14
and their chief rival, Ong Leon, occurred. 90 years later, the organized crime of New York's Chinatown was still dominated by those people. In 1996, long after the decline of the KMT as a force in Taiwan, I would argue there's still a force…
▶ 49:44
was involved in yet another major San Francisco drug bust. The KMT was faded, but these other drug lords and their drug connections were still in place, largely thanks to the CIA. These continuities lend a coherence to the intrigue leading …