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Yoshio Kodama person

also: Godfather Kadama, Kadama, Kodama, Kudama, Rear Admiral Kodoma, the Kodama guy, underworld godfather, Yoko Koshawa, Yosio Kodama

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Claims (16)

Yoshio Kodama funded Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) host_asserted
“then personally financed the creation of two political parties that merged into Japan's ruling Liberal Democrat Party, strongly backed to this day by Washington. Hard evidence of Sante's secret recovery of Japanese war gold comes from strai…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors by Sterling & Peggy Seagrave INTRO @ 54:56
Yoshio Kodama 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
Ferdinand Marcos did_business_with Yoshio Kodama book_quoted
“that set of maps. Marcos had authorized offshore recoveries by a syndicate of Japanese and Korean gangsters headed by Kodama and Machu Hisashui, head of one of the gangs. Another partner was billionaire fixer Sasakawa, another of Kodama's p…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 11 @ 19:29
Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) funded Yoshio Kodama book_quoted
“His political party, the Liberal Democratic Party, created and funded the underworld godfather, Kodama, from treasure he amassed during the war. And it was all backed by Washington with limitless funds. Once millions of dollars derived from…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8 @ 11:29
Charles Willoughby did_business_with Yoshio Kodama book_quoted
“fascist, was head of his G2 and controlled the Yoshida fund and worked energetically with Kodama and his legions to suppress any kind of leftist activity because democracy doesn't tolerate dissent, don't you know? You get no freedom of spee…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8 @ 55:28
Yoshio Kodama 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
Yoshio Kodama trafficked Operation Golden Lily documented
“Diamonds and colored gems were sorted and graded, and then they made lists. There were private vaults that they were stored in, and one of the admirals and some of the military officers and some of the gangsters kept the biggest and best di…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 5 @ 28:28
Yoshio Kodama trafficked Japan book_quoted
“and also said that he probably was the chief CIA asset in Japan. Kodama continued to oversee Japan's post-war drug trade. Heroin Labs moved back from the island of Taiwan, but from North China and Korea. And so isn't that interesting? Becau…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8 @ 43:32
Yoshio Kodama trafficked Japan host_asserted
“and was in charge of plundering the Asian underworld racketeers. He was also in charge of Japan's wartime drug trade throughout Asia. After the war, to get rid of the Sugamo prison and avoid persecution for war crimes, Kodama gave $100 mill…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors by Sterling & Peggy Seagrave INTRO @ 54:31
Yoshio Kodama did_business_with Douglas MacArthur book_quoted
“which basically was used for Operation Gladio purposes. Another source of the underground funds was Kodama, who was reported to have amassed $13 billion in war loot for his own personal use. This included two truckloads of diamonds, gold ba…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8 @ 40:35
Yoshio Kodama member_of Charles Willoughby book_quoted
“to make sure that it conformed with the needs of the American Cold War. On the Japanese side, Willoughby's historians included those most notorious war criminals, Kadama and Shusi, who mastermind massacres in Singapore and Malaysia. The his…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8 @ 1:10:56
Masayoshi Akashi relationship_with Yoshio Kodama book_quoted
“underworld fixers, Sasakawa, and he offered to do joint recoveries of the war loot. A crony of Kodama, Sasakawa, knew the location of a number of the major vaults. For a substantial cut, Marcos could grant presidential authorizations for th…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 7:10
Yoshio Kodama 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
Yoshio Kodama trafficked China documented
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day @ 47:39
Yoshio Kodama founded World Anti-Communist League host_asserted
“I think the whole Nuremberg was a scripted event, just like, by the way, the one, the counterpart to it in Japan. The entire thing was scripted because there's no way that Kudamo and what is the other guy's, Yoko Koshawa or whatever, howeve…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 26 Cont @ 1:01:01
Douglas MacArthur did_business_with Yoshio Kodama host_asserted
“There's no way under God's green earth that they should have ever survived a war crimes court. And yet they did because they became very useful to General MacArthur, who then goes to Korea and basically tries to create a new home for Chiang…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 26 Cont @ 1:01:31

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Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day
▶ 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…
Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day
▶ 46:44 you'll know all about Kudama. Kudama was huge. These are the guys like Reinhard Galen that got off without being held accountable or auto scores any. A prominent figure in Japan's organized crime syndicate, the Zakuza. They were freed in 19…
Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day
▶ 47:11 Japan's news service uncovered documents establishing that Kodama's release coincided with an agreement he had made with the U.S. military intelligence two months earlier to serve as an informant. Declassified documents link Kodama's releas…
Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day
▶ 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…
Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day
▶ 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…
Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day
▶ 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…
Operation Gladio - Korea Part 2
▶ 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…
Operation Gladio - Korea Part 2
▶ 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 …
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