Ryōichi Sasakawa person
also: Royichi Sagakawa, Roishi Sagakawa, Sasakawa, Ryoichi Sakakawa, Sakakawa
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Ryōichi Sasakawa member_of
World Anti-Communist League host_asserted
“to escape punishment. Both of those guys, the Roishi Sagakawa and the Kodama guy, were both members of the Unification Church and the Anti-Communist League for Asia. And I want to point this out. You know the guy that everybody thought was …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea Part 2 @ 29:33
Ryōichi Sasakawa member_of
Unification Church host_asserted
“to escape punishment. Both of those guys, the Roishi Sagakawa and the Kodama guy, were both members of the Unification Church and the Anti-Communist League for Asia. And I want to point this out. You know the guy that everybody thought was …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea Part 2 @ 29:33
Ryōichi Sasakawa member_of
World Anti-Communist League host_asserted
“Moon's organization has denied any link to intel services. Moon, who is Korean, and his two fascist Japanese buddies, Kodama and Sasakawa, worked together in the early 1960s to form the Asian... You guys aren't going to believe this. The As…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day @ 48:59
Mentions (10)
▶ 45:21
To understand the historical significance of Reverend Moon and his Moonies, one must start with the Ryoichi Sakakawa, identified in the 1992 Frontline Investigative Report as the key money source behind Moon's far-flung world religion and h…
▶ 45:51
Japan's leading fascist, he organized a private army of 1,500 men equipped with 20 warplanes. His followers were Japan's version of Mussolini black shirts or the white shirts that we just talked about in Korea, or there's a whole laundry li…
▶ 46:19
and was an uncondemned Class A war criminal, meaning he didn't stay in trial. Following World War II, so he, I'll get to that in a minute. According to the U.S. document, Sakakawa was suddenly freed with another accused war criminal, Kodama…
▶ 47:39
and dealing in heroin, drugs, tungsten, gold, industrial diamonds, and radium. Both Sakakawa and Kodama's CIA ties are a reoccurring theme with Reverend Moon. In 1997, Congressman Donald Frazier launched an investigation into Moon's cult. T…
▶ 48:59
Moon's organization has denied any link to intel services. Moon, who is Korean, and his two fascist Japanese buddies, Kodama and Sasakawa, worked together in the early 1960s to form the Asian... You guys aren't going to believe this. The As…
▶ 49:55
and right-wing militants into this anti-communist force, better known as Operation Gladio. In 1964, League funds established Moon's Freedom Center in the United States. Kodama served as a chief advisor to the Moon's subsidiary, Win Over Com…
▶ 56:57
The Mooney-sponsored American Freedom Coalition organized support for troop rallies throughout the country and helped other congressional members. The frontline documentary identifies Washington Times as the most costly piece of Mooney's pr…
▶ 28:34
organization. And where is it based? In South Korea. And the Japanese war criminals that also joined the Asian People's Anti-Communist League. A guy by the name of Royichi Sagakawa and Yosio Kodama, which we covered both of those guys in Go…
▶ 29:33
to escape punishment. Both of those guys, the Roishi Sagakawa and the Kodama guy, were both members of the Unification Church and the Anti-Communist League for Asia. And I want to point this out. You know the guy that everybody thought was …
▶ 1:04:44
They have been deployed all over the world doing Operation Gladio stuff under the guise of a church. Yep. And they were extremely involved with Jonestown. They were also extremely involved with Sasakawa out of Japan. And they were pivotal i…