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Alfred T. Cox sent_to
Hong Kong book_quoted
“not unlike those the CIA encountered in Europe. Among the nationalists, there were factions, all of them hoping to corner USAID. Alfred T. Cox, a Wisner officer, was sent to Hong Kong to represent CIA as Civil Air Transport Headquarters. He…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 24:37
Air America headquartered_in
Hong Kong book_quoted
“That's when the CIA steps in and they basically buy the airline. The airline used the cash to relocate to Taiwan with a corporate headquarters in Hong Kong. And why is that important? Because Hong Kong is under the jurisdiction of the UK at…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 20:53
United Front Work Department spied_on
Hong Kong documented
“In 2022, Amnesty International reports they harassed Uyghur and Tibetan activists in both the EU and the US. And in 2019 and 20, the Hong Kong protests mobilized counter demonstrations in Australia and Canada, according to The Guardian. The…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societys 2025-05-29 @ 1:24:56
The Finders trafficked
Hong Kong documented
“and other locations around the country and in foreign countries. One such telex specifically ordered the purchase of two children in Hong Kong to be arranged through a contact at the Chinese embassy there. Another telex expressed an interes…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 56:05
CIA spied_on
Hong Kong host_asserted
“And they began attracting donations from the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Imagine that, that the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller would be funding Operation Gladio. So then you have the State Department and the CIA throwin…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right -Kyle Burke @ 19:53
CIA trafficked
Hong Kong book_quoted
“but to launch an investigation, which for our practical purposes means they basically were going to cover it up. The team of officers began in Hong Kong and spent over two weeks at 11 agencies interviewing over 100 CIA, State, USAID, Pentag…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 53:44
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And Nugent Hand, which is an Australia bank for the money laundering. They had gotten so big that it was impossible to do the scale of money laundering that they needed done with solely the Vatican Bank. And so they're setting up like the C…
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That's going to come out when we get into the Southeast Asia countries and how they've interfaced with Taiwan over the years. What you find is a lot of the shipping that looks like it would be a weird way to ship things go between what when…
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You had, you know, the the Belgians, you had Portugal, you had the Dutch, you had the French and you had the English. And the material was basically presented that most English former colonies like South Africa or India, when they withdrew,…
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Thank you very much. I rest my case. Exactly. Go ahead, Stella. I was just going to bring up, because you're talking about like in the late 70s. Also, don't forget, or maybe I'm wrong, but these people plan things away in the future. In 199…
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10 or 20 years later. So they always think of things really in advance, don't they? Well, they do. But the Hong Kong Treaty was the 99-year treaty that Britain got from basically shoving opium into China from India. So they won the Boxer Wa…
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Hong Kong one time, they got Shanghai, which then turned into an international zone outside of it was basically like an autonomous zone that China wasn't allowed to control for a long time. That went back. And then Hong Kong was on the 99 y…
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And keep in mind that the CIA had decided to set up Taiwan as their massive base of drug operations. And you've got Hong Kong, which is their money laundering place. You've got Shanghai, which was basically an international city, primarily …
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You're over, China. After brief questioning, they were taken by train to a prison. The next stop was Beijing, known as Peking at the time, where they remained behind bars until they're released at a Hong Kong rail station in 1955. An Air Fo…
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were CIA officials because, of course, they want to debrief them. A few days later in Japan, the men were interviewed by Air Force team, including a CIA psychologist, John Gittinger, G-I-T-T-I-N-G-E-R. Arnold later was debriefed at CIA head…
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China is going to kick their ass if they, like, shoot one bullet into China. They're coming over. The British was also worried that provoking China and Korea would lead to a Chinese attack on Hong Kong. Because, of course, at that point, th…
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They had a branch in the Philippines. They had a branch in Taiwan. They had a branch in Hong Kong. So all of that becomes very relevant when, because you see Hong Kong right in the middle of all of it. So again, all of this is very relevant…
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the presence of foreign companies and their resources, because they're very upfront about, I'd say almost in a bragging way about why they're there. But go ahead. Yeah. And then, you know, and then like Hong Kong is not too far away. So, yo…
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Two ambassadors to China from the same boarding school. Remind me, who was the gatekeeper when we opened up China in the 1970s? Would that have been the Bush family? Yes, it was. With Kissinger, yeah. And now we got two ambassadors to China…
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In 2022, Amnesty International reports they harassed Uyghur and Tibetan activists in both the EU and the US. And in 2019 and 20, the Hong Kong protests mobilized counter demonstrations in Australia and Canada, according to The Guardian. The…
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of Korea. Huh. All three of them got together and they're the ones that are starting in Asia, this anti-communist league that has to do with Operation Gladio. Oh, and look, the other participating states, South Vietnam, Thailand, Okinawa, J…
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And Hong Kong, of course, we know was money laundering capital for drugs. And I'm like, well, crap, that's the entire gang right there in Asia for the drug networks. And then it talks about a whole bunch of other stuff as you get down here.…
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Shanghai, they take possession of Hong Kong as their quote unquote trophy. That's how they ended up with that. And that is not something that they teach you in school. And it wasn't just that they infiltrated China with this massive amount …
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And you're going to recognize the names of these countries, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, and Hong Kong. Now, I'm going to take a second for anyone that's new and point out a couple of facts. Japan was and is a fascist country, r…
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only to have themselves completely defeated by the U.S. forces that was brought ashore to kill all of the nationalists that wanted their freedom. And then, of course, Hong Kong, which back in 1957 is basically the British Empire. So let's r…
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And Liebman, Marvin Liebman, embarked on a two-week mission to forge bonds with anti-communist groups in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Hong Kong. So you can read that as fascist, fascist, fascist, fascist, and fascist, ok…
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It says that he founded a group called Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectual. And that group says that it helped the relocation of 25,000 Chinese intellectual quote-unquote refugees that were in British Hong Kong and transplanted them to the Uni…
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that had propped up Chiang Kai-shek. And because they were known inside of China to be crooks, they were basically put in camps and all kinds of other things and escaped to Hong Kong because they were crooks. And they were going to be held …
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And they began attracting donations from the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Imagine that, that the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller would be funding Operation Gladio. So then you have the State Department and the CIA throwin…
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inside of all of the countries stretching from Japan to Pakistan. So eager to work for the CIA in 1952, he took a briefcase of cash worth $25,000 to Hong Kong to pay for anti-communist pamphlets to be published for Chiang Kai-shek. And in t…
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The Asian People's Anti-Communist League sponsored his trip, paying his airfare, lodging meals, and introducing him to state officials and activists. From Tokyo, Liebman traveled to Taipei, Hong Kong, Seoul, Bangkok, and finally to Saigon, …
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And it goes hand in hand with Ford and Rockefeller. Imagine that, who wants to exploit the resources in China. Okay, so what they wanted by funding this was to expand their intelligence network in Hong Kong, a city of both American, British…
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So after an initial survey mission, because we always have to get that survey mission, just like in Jamaica, done, Liebman's organization set up an office in Hong Kong, which received thousands of resettlement applications that were from do…
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And the thought of being a spy, Liebman agreed to carry a briefcase with $25,000 in cash to help Chinese refugees in Hong Kong publish anti-communist literature. Imagine that. So they want to exploit China. They're going to have to overthro…
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of the Chinese people trying to kick the UK with their drugs out, they ended up with Hong Kong in a settlement because the UK won. And in the second one, they end up with a few other provinces, namely Shanghai, and Shanghai becomes an inter…
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The CIA's airline, Civil Air Transport, later known as Air America, flew weapons and supplies from its base in Hong Kong to Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and the mountain camps of Burma. 10,000 Chinese troops loyal to Chiang Kai-shek in Taiw…
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comings and goings. It's the new Shanghai that used to be Shanghai back in, you know, the early 1900s. Shanghai was an international city, you know, and there was a lot of activity in Hong Kong because, you know, the British acquired that a…
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And so they had to set up elaborate fronts in order to convert Australian money into other money. And that's the reason why Nguyen Han had all of those branches throughout Asia in Chiang Mai, Hong Kong and all of that. So in a lot in Thaila…
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So there was a lot of intrigue around Shanghai and Shanghai basically had been roped off as an international city as part of one of the Boxer War Brits winning on flooding the mainland China with opium, as was Hong Kong. So lots of differen…
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A U.S. government report on the indictments noted that the Tongs' activity possibly paralleled the operations of triad societies in Hong Kong. Like, exactly mirrored. It was also claimed that the profits from narcotic smuggling into the U.S…
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a hotel casino that everybody believed at the time was controlled by Jimmy Hoffa. The same associations, if they were exposed, might cast a light on unexplained 1968 business trip to Hong Kong and Southeast Asia of Santo Trafficani, who was…
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that was intimately involved in the drug trafficking in Southeast Asia. Trapacani had been preceded in 1965 by John Pullman, Meyer Lansky's courier to the Miami National Bank. And in April 1965, Pullman visited a hotel in Hong Kong where th…
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While representing Thailand, and I just mentioned that he was the official Thai consul in Miami, at a time when KMT money from Thailand and Burma came via Hong Kong to be washed through Meyer Lansky's properties. Money laundering. Still lat…
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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…
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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…
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The triads that were located in Hong Kong, the Taiwanese and the multiple additional islands other than the one that we think of as just being Taiwan, has always been in the drug business. So I'm very cautious about attributing that to main…
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That's how they ended up with Hong Kong for their 99 year quote unquote lease is because China lost a war and the whole war was fought based on forcing the Chinese people to accept opium and the drugging of their people. Not only did not on…
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around that because I don't think she was actually going to school. I think she was actually an agent at this point. She was also in Lebanon and Tanzania. She did an internship with the CFR and then worked with the Eurasia Group. If this do…
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Yeah, whatever. His footnote doesn't address that comment. It addressed the pilot recruiting. To help secure Taiwan from invasion, Chenault and his partners put up a personal note of $4.75 million to buy out China's civil air fleet, then gr…
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The avowed purpose of this legal kidnapping was less to acquire the planes than to deny them to the new government in China. So basically what they're saying is the forces, when Mao and Chiang Kai-shek were fighting, there were forces, airc…
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Hong Kong. BCCI, I think, came into being because of when the drug trade was no longer centralized in Southeast Asia, when it came into Afghanistan, Pakistan. Yes. That's why the necessity of BCCI there, because that's where the drugs were.…
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So but at the same time, because BCCI, if I recall right, is like 72 to 92. Those are kind of the years. And so for a fairly lengthy period of time, you're going to find branches of both of those banks and big ones like Singapore, Hong Kong…
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According to this author, was crawling with CIA. It wasn't crawling with CIA. It was CIA. All right. And high-ranking military people, don't forget, ran all of the branches all over the world. Retired generals, Hawaii, Singapore, Chiang Mai…
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but to launch an investigation, which for our practical purposes means they basically were going to cover it up. The team of officers began in Hong Kong and spent over two weeks at 11 agencies interviewing over 100 CIA, State, USAID, Pentag…
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The airline's performance in 1948 was impressive. By 1949, runaway Chinese inflation and the nationalist disintegration had been rough for the civil air transport community. The CIA arrangement brought about half a million dollars in hard c…
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A guy that worked for Frank Wisner was sent to Hong Kong to represent the CIA at the headquarters of the Civil Air Transport. He found himself becoming a broker between the U.S. and the squabbling factions of the Chinese nationalists. Chine…
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CIA approved a million dollars for this effort. Hans Tolte met in Tokyo with other station chiefs to plan the operation. At one point, Cox in Hong Kong made preparation for sabotage under the noses of the British authorities. In the case of…
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A more discreet plan evolved. Kovke simply approached Chiang Kai-shek, who was happy to lend his patrol boats to a scheme for stopping the ship on the high seas. Like pirates. Kind of like they taught the Somali pirates to do. Cox and other…
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So we're occupying the entire damn Asian theater at this point. The whole operation was coordinated by a man called Alfred Cox, C-O-X, who was the chief of station in Hong Kong, and Sherman Joost, J-O-O-S-T, who was chief of station in Bang…
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Lacked any detail or even a plan. It just basically was a budget request. The project sailed through the bureaucracy, received all of the approval that it needed, and the money was spent to promote a progressive Muslim party exchanging the …
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And it is those times when the military ends up dying for a CIA operation gone bad. So, yes, you're right. They have a lock on military support. And that's the whole thing with the SF guys, the Green Berets, the Deltas and all those guys. S…
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So they could monopolize trade in that area. And there was coal there. And so to power the ships and stuff like that, they basically, just like they had done with Hong Kong and several other places, in order to have their empire, they have …
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using those same trails during World War II to smuggle arms to Chiang Kai-shek. They had a very well-established support network, including a warehouse that was now reopened. Recruits traveled in groups to Calcutta by train when the next li…
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During the Boxer Wars, where the British had defeated the Chinese and kept pumping opium from India into China, the first one, and I may have this backwards, but they won. One of their concessions for winning the war was taking control of H…
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That's when the CIA steps in and they basically buy the airline. The airline used the cash to relocate to Taiwan with a corporate headquarters in Hong Kong. And why is that important? Because Hong Kong is under the jurisdiction of the UK at…
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not unlike those the CIA encountered in Europe. Among the nationalists, there were factions, all of them hoping to corner USAID. Alfred T. Cox, a Wisner officer, was sent to Hong Kong to represent CIA as Civil Air Transport Headquarters. He…
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Recruits traveled to Calcutta by train, where the link was a contact address. Civil Air Transport planes flew to Taiwan for refueling. Sometimes they landed in Bangkok. Sometimes they landed in Hong Kong. They were all black CIA aircraft. I…
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and several others. He wasn't the only one. He's just the most notorious one in the aftermath. The introduction of, they were basically trying to destabilize China so they could control it, right? So they have Shanghai, they have Hong Kong.…
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territories that were awarded to the British at the end of their Boxer I and Boxer II wars. So Shanghai is set up as an international city. We know that Hong Kong was basically awarded to the British because they won both of those. They def…
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best known for his role in acquiring and managing the Civil Air Transport Airline. Cox had been an OSS commando. Where? Oh, Italy and France. You know, the stay-behind places. He had run operations against mainland China from his perch in H…
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Soon after the Diem coup, William Colby arrived in Saigon. He had John Richardson to dinner the night before leaving Washington, D.C. on his way to Saigon. His priority was to replace the station chief. Colby called on Pierre de Silva, rece…
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after a long tour as the CIA chief in Korea, where he too had seen a coup up close. Now, this is very, very important setting this up because as we've found out in our years-long study, Hong Kong was a pivot point for drug trafficking and m…
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You have another piece of it in Hong Kong. And you have William Colby meeting with these guys on his way to Vietnam to basically set up the Phoenix program. So that's kind of the context of those few sentences. Da Silva had a background in …
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began a formal investigation. And I do have that book. As a matter of fact, it's right here. We're going to do that book because it's quite illuminating. Scott Breckenridge of the IG office participated in the team of officers who began in …
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and in allowing him back into the yeah well no not allowing him edward snowden was effectively in hong kong when he whistled all about the nsa and everything that was corrupt um he then went to russia where he was actually given uh permissi…
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These companies were set up with the approval and knowledge of senior CIA officials and other senior U.S. government officials and staffed primarily by either CIA, ex-CIA, ex-FBI, or ex-military officers. The companies include Aereo Systems…
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and other locations around the country and in foreign countries. One such telex specifically ordered the purchase of two children in Hong Kong to be arranged through a contact at the Chinese embassy there. Another telex expressed an interes…
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and being fed information about the situation. One of the residents was identified as a Chinese national due to a telex discovered referencing the Chinese embassy in Hong Kong, and they found a Chinese passport there. He is in the U.S. as a…
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See if this rings a bell. London, Germany, Bahamas, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Africa, Costa Rica. Huh, that's weird. We've talked about all of those countries. They also had folders that were identified by the word project, followed by some othe…
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Every time the government felt that it was succeeding in damage control and the issue could be put behind, other reports of sighting and information regarding live POWs being held in Russia and China surfaced. One shocking report that arriv…
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The informant was interrogated on two occasions by an assistant air liaison officer and the consulate general agrees with his evaluation of the information being true and the evaluation of the source being reliable. First report dated March…
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We didn't have G's anything because that's an army thing. He's talking about the senior intelligence officer of the Air Force. This office has interviewed refugee source who states that he observed hundreds of POWs in American uniforms bein…
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Nguyen Han eventually set up office and affiliates in 13 separate countries, including the U.S., Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Cayman Islands, all the drug trafficking places. But we know that it was not really a bank. It was a …
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The opium was carried south to Bangkok, where it was sold to drug merchants from Singapore, Hong Kong, and New Delhi. The money received was laundered through Nguyen Han. That is what didn't come to the United States. By 75, the Nguyen Han …
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Just saying. What's most interesting in this is there was a excerpt that my friend here found that puts the Sassoon family and the Tata family both in China, in Hong Kong, in Shanghai.…
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at a meeting talking about how they were going to reform the opium trade in China. This is just crazy. And they were doing it at a meeting in Hong Kong because this was post.…
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Opium war where the UK ended up, the Boxer War, with Hong Kong as a possession. They would eventually end up with Shanghai as a possession as well because China couldn't defeat the UK in their piping in of opium into China. So China ends up…