Kuomintang organization
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Claims (74)
Air America supported
Kuomintang documented
“more notable achievements, including support of the Chinese nationalists, i.e. Chiang Kai-shek, withdrawal from mainland China, airdrop support into the French area, mainly Dien Bien Phu, complete logistical and tactical air support for the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 20:42
World Anti-Communist League front_for
Kuomintang host_asserted
“The Asian Pacific Anti-Communist League, which is the precursor to the World Anti-Communist League, of which the Free China Relief Agency at the same address was a member. So in other words, these are all CIA organizations, was itself an or…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:04:19
World Anti-Communist League funded
Kuomintang book_quoted
“and basically sponsored the airlift of the KMT opium camps from western Laos. And we've went all through that with our series on the World Anti-Communist League. But this is a quote for you. The KMT stake in the civil air transport airlift …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 21:59
Office of Policy Coordination supplied_arms_to
Kuomintang book_quoted
“Under the program of the Office of Policy Coordination, OPC, which remember, that is Frank Wisner, which was originally in the State Department and then moves for the clandestine part of the CIA once it's set up, worked under private cover …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 26:22
Air America supplied_arms_to
Kuomintang book_quoted
“Civil Air Transport supplied the troops with arms from another CIA proprietary, Sea Supply, and Sea Supply was set up by Paul Helliwell. At an OPC-built airbase in, I think that was Thailand, after delivering the arms to the KMT in Burma, a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 28:49
Sea Supply Corporation supplied_arms_to
Kuomintang book_quoted
“Most of the KMT opium was sold to Thai police chief, who, by what McCoy calls a coincidence, was also the CIA's man in Thailand. So they were basically just doing this under the cover. It was the CIA the entire time, the entire network. How…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 29:45
Paul Helliwell member_of
Kuomintang 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
Sea Supply Corporation supplied_arms_to
Kuomintang host_asserted
“and supposedly owner of C Supply, at least legal counsel, because he's a lawyer by trade. The proprietary, which supplied arms to Chiang Kai-shek, even though the official Washington position is we didn't do that. After 1949, C Supply shipp…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 38:38
Chiang Kai-shek funded
Kuomintang guest_asserted
“And Chiang Kai-shek was selling opium to fund his fight against first the emperor, excuse me, and then Mao. So Chiang Kai-shek, because he was also fighting against the Japanese during World War II, had his own U.S. military attache and OSS…”
▶ Operation Gladio & Recent Events w @ColonelTowner @ 19:57
Chiang Kai-shek headed
Kuomintang book_quoted
“nationalist, the Chinese nationalist under the command of Chiang Kai-shek, was the creation of the Golden Triangle and how they used the drugs, opium specifically, to create the covert operations and fund Operation Gladio. And it talks abou…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 b @ 10:40
Air America trafficked
Kuomintang book_quoted
“including C-47s and C-46s. The Civil Air Transport Fleet transported weapons to a contingency force of KMT, Chiang Kai-shek's paramilitary forces, in Burma. The planes were then loaded with drugs for the return trip to China. The pilots who…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 8:55
Kuomintang owned
Air America book_quoted
“retained 60% ownership of the company owning Civil Air Transport Plant, which could then be used on drug missions. His subject being broadly defined by the interviews he conducted in 1971, he has little or nothing to say about the links bet…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 4:20
Kuomintang controlled
Air America book_quoted
“Civil Air Transport, Inc., the CIA proprietary, that supplied them with, all of the airlines actually, with pilots and other personnel like ground support, 60% of the capital and control of the Civil Air Transport was KMT, Chinese Nationali…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 23:40
Kuomintang ensconced_in
China host_asserted
“American dependence on drug proxies can be traced to the CIA's decision in 49 and 50 to provide arms and logistical support for the KMT, both in China and then in 49 to Burma, which is where they got kicked out. That's where they went initi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 43:19
Chiang Kai-shek headed
Kuomintang book_quoted
“intrigues in which one saw the role of not just the CIA, but also of the KMT, which is Chiang Kai-shek's army in Taiwan, the KMT troops in Laos, and their right-wing Laotian allies. I link these intrigues, as I still would today, to the fad…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 22:49
CIA funded
Kuomintang book_quoted
“CIA, their proprietary Air America, the KMT, and its allies, which I bring together in Chapter 11, which is two chapters from now. We're on Chapter 9. As I mentioned in the introduction, I know of no more recent history of Laos or Indochina…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 29:27
CIA supplied_arms_to
Kuomintang book_quoted
“and the CIA-KMT ploy of 1958, when, without doubt, the CIA encouraged Chiang, Chiang Kai-shek, to build up an offensive force on the offshore island again in spite of official U.S. advice. One such common feature was the activity of Chinese…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 52:17
Chiang Kai-shek headed
Kuomintang host_asserted
“of the puppet Second East Turkestan Republic. Y'all, I ain't even going to believe this. The KMT. The KMT of Chiang Kai-shek. The KMT army of Chiang Kai-shek. And so when I'm looking at this, I'm like, are you effing kidding me? Are you kid…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Turkistan @ 17:23
Chiang Kai-shek headed
Kuomintang documented
“the Nationalists being the Chiang Kai-shek's KMT army. Though the State Department believed it, quote, by no means suicidal, unquote, of Chiang Kai-shek to contemplate such raids. Despite limited possibilities, the 5412 group considered Gor…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 27:30
Chiang Kai-shek member_of
Kuomintang host_asserted
“He is now sitting in the ambassadorship to Thailand in the early 1950s. This was repatriation of the Chinese nationalist in northern Burma in accordance with the express wishes of the Burmese government. So for those of you who may be new, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 21:29
Kuomintang trafficked
Burma host_asserted
“that was protecting the drug route coming out of China into Burma. And Burma had a whole bunch of opium themselves. They're relocating a foreign military army onto the island of Taiwan that is massively involved in the drug trade. And your …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 25:19
Dwight D. Eisenhower supplied_arms_to
Kuomintang host_asserted
“In early 1953, the U.S. gave the Nationalists their first jet aircraft, an F-84 fighter, and sanctioned an expansion of the Nationalist Marine Corps to three brigades, tripling their amphibious force. So the U.S. and William Polly, because …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 27:30
William Casey supplied_arms_to
Kuomintang host_asserted
“In early 1953, the U.S. gave the Nationalists their first jet aircraft, an F-84 fighter, and sanctioned an expansion of the Nationalist Marine Corps to three brigades, tripling their amphibious force. So the U.S. and William Polly, because …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 27:30
Kuomintang carried_out_attack
China host_asserted
“In connection with this fighter jet deal, the Nationalists agreed not to use their American weapons, particularly the aircraft, on any mission without asking the U.S. military first. But Chiang Kai-shek didn't always abide by that because t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 28:21
CIA supported
Kuomintang host_asserted
“Supported by the CIA and Civil Air Transport later turned into Air America, the region produced 400 tons. I can't even imagine 400 tons. It went from 80 in 10 years to 400 tons. That's crazy. During the Vietnam War, production at one time r…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Drugs,Oil, and War Part 3 @ 43:01
Kuomintang trafficked
Laos host_asserted
“and the exile of the KMT army to Taiwan. The U.S. drug proxies in Laos, including the Hmong, the Laotians, and former KMT armies were all major drug traffickers. The KMT army were also principal agents in building up the Laotian drug produc…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Drugs,Oil, and War Part 3 @ 38:49
Chiang Kai-shek headed
Kuomintang host_asserted
“that escalate to meet their own drug agenda. The whole history of the U.S. in the Far East since World War II has been involved from the beginning, as we well know, in a drug trafficking operation. And their initial proxy that they used was…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs Oil and War Part 4 @ 3:51
CIA supplied_arms_to
Kuomintang documented
“finding people, taking them to Colorado in the middle of the night, taking them up on a mountain because Tibet's very mountainous, and training them to be terrorists, and then taking them back and inserting them into Tibet. So this is what …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 18:40
Sea Supply Corporation supplied_arms_to
Kuomintang book_quoted
“that were set up to attack mainland China and all of the other surrounding areas. Willis Byrd, B-I-R-D, who also was in the OSS in China with Paul Helliwell, headed a Bangkok quote-unquote trading company called Sea Supply. Sea Supply was s…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 18:44
Hung Chau Chin member_of
Kuomintang host_asserted
“So after 1952, Hung was a member of the KMT, Chiang Kai-shek's central committee. And in 1971, he was chairman of the Bank of Thailand. So you think he doesn't know all about the heroin trade into the United States? Every last bit of it. Th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:03:26
Feng Chi member_of
Kuomintang host_asserted
“became obvious in 1961 when Feng Chi, C-H-I-H, a member of the KMT Central Advisory Committee and Secretary General of the Free China Relief Agency, admitted responsibility for an unlisted civil air transport plane that had just been shot d…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:03:54
Kuomintang funded
Shan Rebellion host_asserted
“and the non-existent invasion of Laos reported by the Brook Club member John Alsop than with opium itself. It definitely had to do with the opium. The U.S. government itself commenting on the nearby rebellion of the same year in the state o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:07:15
Air America supplied_arms_to
Kuomintang host_asserted
“Chiang Kai-shek KMT troops who were reportedly operating in Laos in 1961, having been flown from Thailand into the bases in northern Thailand and then into Laos by Air America and Civil Air Transport assets. This announcement came to nothin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:15:10
Kuomintang carried_out_attack
China book_quoted
“was an important CIA station with a broad range of activities. Its centrality re-emphasized after the Taiwan Strait crisis of 54 and 55. Chiang Kai-shek still dreamed of returning to China. The Nationalists infiltrated agents at a rate of o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 48:49
CIA funded
Kuomintang book_quoted
“While the Americans refused to help this effort, they did support boat and midget submarine landings of their commandos, anywhere from a dozen to 20 men at a time. Boat groups usually left from Kowloon. The submarines usually left from Taiw…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 50:47
CIA trained
Kuomintang book_quoted
“with overhead reconnaissance paled next to the product of nationalist pilots trained to fly U-2s under the military aid program. The photographic evidence came back to the CIA for interpretation. The station's Tibetan involvement remained r…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 51:47
United States relabeled
Kuomintang host_asserted
“of China, even though he was not. And his military was relabeled by the United States as a political party. And so any consternation about their militant attacks on mainland China and all of the other areas in Southeast Asia was an attack o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 35:35
Kuomintang kicked_out_of
Burma host_asserted
“American dependence on drug proxies can be traced to the CIA's decision in 49 and 50 to provide arms and logistical support for the KMT, both in China and then in 49 to Burma, which is where they got kicked out. That's where they went initi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 43:19
Chiang Kai-shek headed
Kuomintang host_asserted
“When Chiang Kai-shek got in charge of the KMT army and they began basically doing exactly the same thing inside of China, when Mao kicked him out, basically all they did was relocate him to Burma. And the Burmese government tolerated that b…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 1:41:46
Chiang Kai-shek headed
Kuomintang host_asserted
“And I'm going to define communism because it's important to understand what that means in relationship to Operation Gladio. In China, the communist element led by Mao was meeting resistance from a guy by the name of Chiang Kai-shek.…”
▶ Operation Gladio Vietnam Part 3 @ 4:47
CIA supplied_arms_to
Kuomintang host_asserted
“The deployment of KMT troops was important for the transportation of opium. Civil Air Transport supplied the KMT with weapons and transportation for opium, and on return flights, they brought weapons, all arranged through the Thailand secre…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 10:35
Shiro Ishii member_of
Kuomintang book_quoted
“now on trial in Tokyo, particularly during cross-examination of the commander of the Kuomintang Army from 1939 to 1944, of which Ishii's biological warfare group was assigned. In addition, there's a strong possibility that Soviet prosecutor…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 30:26
Chiang Kai-shek headed
Kuomintang host_asserted
“who was sick and tired of what was going on in this country. He rebelled, created the communist wave. And Chiang Kai-shek eventually gets kicked out with his army, which is the KMT army. And they move over to Burma, still growing opium, doi…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 1 @ 38:30
Chiang Kai-shek funded
Kuomintang host_asserted
“Yeah, I mean, there was a great movie made during World War II called The Flying Tigers, in which John Wayne played the lead. And they were great heroes because it, well, okay, Hallowell came to realize that Chiang Kai-shek was funding his …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio @ 48:33
Kuomintang trafficked
China host_asserted
“The Nationalist Army, which was still in China at that time, would send planes into Indonesia, into places like Burma and Laos, where there were poppy fields. Cultivate the poppies, refine them, and send them to China. Flying tigers, okay? …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio @ 49:04
CIA funded
Kuomintang book_quoted
“was Lucky Luciano and his longtime friend and accomplice Meyer Lansky. One of the best books on this is Operation Gladio by Paul Williams. He says this. But then how does he not say what Paul Williams also revealed in that book, which is th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 2:18
Chiang Kai-shek trafficked
Kuomintang book_quoted
“as chief of special operations for the OSS. And from the book Operation Gladio, he has a quote. Within Kunming, a town within the South China province of Yunnan, highly well-observed Chiang Kai-shek leader KMT sold opium to Chinese addicts.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 5:57
Paul Helliwell funded
Kuomintang book_quoted
“as chief of special operations for the OSS. And from the book Operation Gladio, he has a quote. Within Kunming, a town within the South China province of Yunnan, highly well-observed Chiang Kai-shek leader KMT sold opium to Chinese addicts.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 5:57
CIA funded
Kuomintang book_quoted
“and cocaine during and after the Vietnam conflict. Once you begin to see the pattern, you can't unsee it. Hi, Bridget. How does one fight Mao's communist forces in China? Sell opium to addicts in China in order to get money to buy guns and …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 9:55
Kuomintang supplied_arms_to
Permesta book_quoted
“were veterans of the CIA airlift to Dinh Ben Phu in Vietnam. When they landed to refuel in Thailand, Thai soldiers boarded the planes and started pulling apart the containers, a breach of security contained only with difficulty. Meanwhile, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 20:13
Kuomintang member_of
Permesta host_asserted
“So these backwoods rebels overnight had air capability to attack their government. Of course, they were all civil air transports. There were also Chinese nationalists, Polish people, and at least one Hungarian who had worked directly for th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 42:07
Kuomintang supplied_arms_to
Permesta host_asserted
“Bono, the security breach of either of those had been captured would be enormous. For that very reason, they were never permitted to fly over land. Nationalist Chinese helped with air services, staying to work with Permesta even after the C…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 44:48
Chiang Kai-shek headed
Kuomintang host_asserted
“However, as we know now, the OSS officers got outvoted and the U.S. decided to get in bed with the French. The big three powers at Potsdam divided Vietnam along the 16th parallel. Chinese forces aligned with General Chiang Kai-shek and the …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 41:50
CIA recruited
Kuomintang documented
“Three task force assembled, each to argue for a particular line of action. The rollback approach was subsumed in Solarium's Alternative C, designed to increase efforts to disturb and weaken the Soviet bloc, attacking the communist apparatus…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 53:45
CIA recruited
Kuomintang host_asserted
“Oh, okay. Yeah, so we brought the KMT guys in, we brought the Turks in, we brought in the Filipinos, and we were going to bring in some Guatemalans along with all of the Cuban exiles to create this battalion-size invading force. Yeah. It's …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 1:02:53
CIA supplied_arms_to
Kuomintang host_asserted
“Bono, the security breach of either of those had been captured would be enormous. For that very reason, they were never permitted to fly over land. Nationalist Chinese helped with air services, staying to work with Permesta even after the C…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 44:48
CIA funded
Kuomintang host_asserted
“Bono, the security breach of either of those had been captured would be enormous. For that very reason, they were never permitted to fly over land. Nationalist Chinese helped with air services, staying to work with Permesta even after the C…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 44:48
IG Farben supplied_arms_to
Kuomintang book_quoted
“Those two entities produced 95% of the explosives that would be used on the Nazi side in World War II. The post-World War II Kilgore Committee of the U.S. Senate heard detailed evidence from government officials to the effect that, quote, w…”
▶ Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler @ 8:13
Stahlwerk supplied_arms_to
Kuomintang book_quoted
“Those two entities produced 95% of the explosives that would be used on the Nazi side in World War II. The post-World War II Kilgore Committee of the U.S. Senate heard detailed evidence from government officials to the effect that, quote, w…”
▶ Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler @ 8:13
Fritz Thyssen member_of
Kuomintang book_quoted
“Owen Young, that brought Hitler to power. This is Hitler's banker saying that Young's plan is what resulted in Hitler being put in power. Fritz Thyssen claims that, quote, I turned to the National Socialist Party only after I became convinc…”
▶ Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler @ 25:04
Dawes Plan funded
Kuomintang book_quoted
“The proceeds, geared for the greater part of the United States from dollar investors, were utilized in the mid-1920s to create and consolidate ginormous chemical and steel combination or cartels, IG Farben and Stahlwerk. These cartels not o…”
▶ Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler @ 17:23
Young Plan funded
Kuomintang book_quoted
“Four years later, we have the Young Plan, who was part of the Dawes Plan. According to Hitler's financial guru, Schlott, and Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Thyssen, T-H-Y-S-S-E-N, it was the 1928 Young Plan, which followed the Dawes Plan…”
▶ Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler @ 24:36
D.C. McKernan supplied_arms_to
Kuomintang documented
“They put these minorities in charge of the majority with a small contingent of like French or Belgium military. And then they just open slaughtered them. And as long as they were killing each other, they were free to steal all the resources…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 30:10
People's Liberation Army carried_out_attack
Kuomintang documented
“Shortly before, Peking claimed the arrest of an astonishing 20,000 agents of U.S. military intelligence since the beginning of 1949. During the course of the 1950s, the People's Liberation Army mobilized more than 1.2 million men in central…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 31:34
Lucien Tronchet member_of
Kuomintang host_asserted
“September 1950, perhaps in hopes of harming an enemy like the Soviet Union, the CIA representative in Bern, James Kronthal, K-R-O-N-T-H-A-L, who himself was a Soviet agent, categorized him as a communist. And yet, as a member of the Sociali…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti-Communism #3 @ 11:08
Air America supplied_arms_to
Kuomintang host_asserted
“They provided air support to the KMT Army while it was temporarily located in Burma before they moved to Taiwan. And all of these airplanes were used to fly weapons one way and drugs the other. The pilots who flew these aircraft were basica…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy @ 14:13
Air America supplied_arms_to
Kuomintang book_quoted
“including C-47s and C-46s. The Civil Air Transport Fleet transported weapons to a contingency force of KMT, Chiang Kai-shek's paramilitary forces, in Burma. The planes were then loaded with drugs for the return trip to China. The pilots who…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 8:55
Nguyen Loc Hoa member_of
Kuomintang host_asserted
“was imprisoned in the 1940s by Ho Chi Minh because he was conspiring with the KMT army of Chiang Kai-shek against Northern Vietnamese people. And he is a Catholic priest. His real name is Nguyen Loc Hoa.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 45:55
Hjalmar Schacht member_of
Kuomintang host_asserted
“was a corporate executive at General Electric. And Heimar Schlott, who was Hitler's eventual banker, but Germany's big guy in the German banking industry, and a guy by the name of the first initial A, Vogler, and others.…”
▶ Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler @ 6:28
Kuomintang trafficked
China host_asserted
“who was sick and tired of what was going on in this country. He rebelled, created the communist wave. And Chiang Kai-shek eventually gets kicked out with his army, which is the KMT army. And they move over to Burma, still growing opium, doi…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 1 @ 38:30
Kuomintang headed
East Turkestan Republic host_asserted
“of the puppet Second East Turkestan Republic. Y'all, I ain't even going to believe this. The KMT. The KMT of Chiang Kai-shek. The KMT army of Chiang Kai-shek. And so when I'm looking at this, I'm like, are you effing kidding me? Are you kid…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Turkistan @ 17:23
IG Farben front_for
Kuomintang book_quoted
“More important, it was conscious of the fact that the German industry was under the control of the Nazis and was being directed to serve Germany's rearmament, and the firm mentioned most frequently was IG Farben. Further, the evidence prese…”
▶ Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler @ 14:33
Chiang Kai-shek headed
Kuomintang guest_asserted
“And his KMT army becomes the KMT political party.…”
▶ Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest) @ 57:33
Raymond Pierce founded
Kuomintang guest_asserted
“He was an OSS veteran who had parachuted to set up the KMT in Burma.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 50:00
Mentions (120)
▶ 8:13
Those two entities produced 95% of the explosives that would be used on the Nazi side in World War II. The post-World War II Kilgore Committee of the U.S. Senate heard detailed evidence from government officials to the effect that, quote, w…
▶ 14:33
More important, it was conscious of the fact that the German industry was under the control of the Nazis and was being directed to serve Germany's rearmament, and the firm mentioned most frequently was IG Farben. Further, the evidence prese…
▶ 25:04
Owen Young, that brought Hitler to power. This is Hitler's banker saying that Young's plan is what resulted in Hitler being put in power. Fritz Thyssen claims that, quote, I turned to the National Socialist Party only after I became convinc…
▶ 57:33
He's dealing opium there. Then when they get kicked out of Burma, they move him to an island called Formosa and then just change the name to Taiwan. And his KMT army becomes the KMT political party. He then kills all of the Formosans that w…
▶ 38:30
who was sick and tired of what was going on in this country. He rebelled, created the communist wave. And Chiang Kai-shek eventually gets kicked out with his army, which is the KMT army. And they move over to Burma, still growing opium, doi…
▶ 38:59
They get over to a recently deserted island after World War II by the Japanese called Formosa. And it's off the coast of China. Now, keep in mind, these are Chinese people. They were inside of China. They moved to Burma. Then they moved to …
▶ 39:29
to be an actual registered political party by the name of KMT. Didn't even change the name, didn't try to hide it. And Chiang Kai-shek becomes the president, prime minister, whatever you want to call it, of Taiwan. He remains in that positi…
▶ 2:07:17
But I read the Alfred McCoy book, too, and he kind of says that there's at least some indirect complicity, but it isn't necessarily that the CIA is directly using it to fund their operations. It's the Kuomintang and the Sicilian mob that wa…
▶ 15:47
When I came across C.B. Starr, the first thing I thought was he has to be connected to William Polly. He just has to. So I started doing some research on it. Starr's operation through companies like American International Assurance Company …
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CV Star was a significant figure within the circles that were associated with the China lobby. And the China lobby is the group behind the World Anti-Communist League. Just keep bringing it full circle here. This guy touches on just about e…
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the KMT army to power in China and consolidate a Western presence in Southeast Asia. So this is a financial backer of Chiang Kai-shek and his KMT army to get them back into China, which is why we went into Korea, why we went into Vietnam. A…
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kind of the China-Taiwan from a business kind of perspective. And during a very well laid out presentation, because of the absence of having looked into Operation Gladio, the drug trade, and all of that other stuff, did not highlight my are…
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had been a Japanese island. It's a Chinese island. It was occupied during World War II by the Japanese. And so under the guise of going on to Formosa to get the rest of the Japanese out, there are U.S. people present there. Well, they move …
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and the first several CIA chiefs, you find them also involved in other Operation Gladio destabilization efforts. So, for example, the first station chief in 1949 assigned to Formosa, now called Taiwan, was Raymond Pierce. He was an OSS vete…
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and other activity. Because I didn't know until I started doing this research that Taiwan wasn't just one island. It's seven. And the KMT was set up on all of those islands to launch after World War II and after they kicked Chiang Kai-shek …
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Supposedly, our history taught us that Chiang Kai-shek was the good guy fighting against the communists. And when you delve into Chiang Kai-shek's background, you find out that he was, at the time, with his KMT army, one of the largest worl…
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that Southeast Asia area to set Chiang Kai-shek up with his own air force. Claire Chennault basically just managed it and flew the airplanes around. It was William Polly that was at the heart of that whole initiative. So through that effort…
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There's one of these anti-communist leagues in every region. There was one in the Caribbean. There was one in Latin America. There was one in Europe. And this is the one that's in Asia. In addition to the fascist heritage of the KMT army, w…
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the trade of opium with the West Indies was for colonial purposes. It was just another way to placate, like when they wanted to go into China, they brought in and grew, they found local people that were treasonous bastards, convinced them l…
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Because of the timing of this and knowing that Bush had an intimate relationship with Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT army. And that had existed for decades. And so I find it very interesting that Bush is basically a spy in China posing…
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The Chiang Kai-shek guy has a really great idea. He's selling drugs in order to pay for covert operations in China. I think we need to do the same thing. So they set up an entire operation in China. Eventually, Chiang Kai-shek gets kicked o…
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And eventually there's an island off the coast of China called Formosa. And they set Chiang Kai-shek up there. And not just Taiwan, there's like eight little islands, one of which is a mile off the coast of China. So what you have is a Chin…
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that killed hundreds of thousands of their own people. They were all trained in a Taiwanese political warfare cadre to be assassins. That's all happened in Taiwan. And oh, by the way, when we set up Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek immediately decla…
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And the chairman of the league, a guy by the name of Ku Ching Kang, was a member of what? Oh, Chiang Kai-shek's KMT. You see how that all plays out? Because Reverend Moon and Chiang Kai-shek were the guys that created the World Anti-Communi…
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And he was one of many warlords fighting against Mao, all of which became even clearer after his forces. And here's where he calls them the G-U-O-M-I-N-D-A-N-G, which is not how you spell it. It's K-M-T, not G-M-D. Forced the Japanese from …
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As the KMT took over, food shortages and runaway inflation led to mounting frustrations of the workers and farmers. So in February 1947, thousands of people took to the street in protest. And this is not even actually correct. It wasn't ove…
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The KMT army began restricting movement and dictating to all of these people who had just been freed from enslavement by Japan. And they weren't having a U.S. installed government in charge of them. They just refused to pay attention to the…
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CIA. As Taiwan stabilized under the authoritarian rule of Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT carried out massacres, in the 1950s, Taiwan's potential for economic progress stability was hardly certain. Chiang Kai-shek's regime faced serious challen…
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talked about quote-unquote opening China to American capitalism, a project that would uplift Chinese and American people at once by making them partners. At the same time, a close economic relationship between the two countries promised rel…
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Who was actually occupying Tibet? If China fought boxer wars there to implement the opium of India into China, well, who do we know that was the opium dealer in China? Oh my God, that was Chiang Kai-shek. Well, don't you know that Chiang Ka…
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of the puppet Second East Turkestan Republic. Y'all, I ain't even going to believe this. The KMT. The KMT of Chiang Kai-shek. The KMT army of Chiang Kai-shek. And so when I'm looking at this, I'm like, are you effing kidding me? Are you kid…
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No separating what's going on over there from what we've been studying. So this National Liberation Movement was basically part of the KMT. And whether the KMT was fighting against the Muslims, which is in some areas, or...…
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They were fighting against what will soon be the communist Mao government because, again, what does the KMT do? The KMT basically are opium overlords. They're part of the corrupt exercising government capability, but they're a military forc…
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what they viewed as Mao taking over the government and implementing communism. However, at the time anyway, Mao's whole reason for stepping up to take over the country was because of the KMT nationalistic entity drugging all of the Chinese.…
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their version of the East Turkestan Republic and wanted sovereignty over it. And so there's some kind of quibbling back and forth. But in 1946, the Soviet Union withdrew its support and basically said, China, you can have it. And so at the …
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Xinjiang divided between KMT forces and the East Turkestan Republic secessionist. The communistic leadership persuaded both governments to surrender and accept the secession of the People's Republic of China government and negotiated the es…
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where they were forcing Indian opium into China to drug all the Chinese. But you're absolutely right on the actual Chiang Kai-shek of his, which the opium wars that the UK was involved in, referred to as the Boxer Rebellions, happened with …
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When Chiang Kai-shek got in charge of the KMT army and they began basically doing exactly the same thing inside of China, when Mao kicked him out, basically all they did was relocate him to Burma. And the Burmese government tolerated that b…
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And they kicked them, kicked Chiang Kai-shek out. And that's when the U.S. and William Pauly and the CIA and everybody else all got together and plopped him down in Taiwan and basically changed the KMT army that had been doing all of this t…
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and his predecessors, the KMT Army, for ease of conversation. And there is an entire conversation to be had around what prompted the communist uprising and the fight against Chiang Kai-shek. And depending on who you talk to, I'm just going …
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Formosa, they decide they're going to rename the island Formosa because Formosa is part of China. And they believe that if they change the name of it, that they can sell the fact that it's a brand new country to the people in America. And t…
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It was a staggering feat of self-preservation from a man whose U.S. officials had nicknamed the Prince of Death. Born in 1933 to a Chinese father and a mother from Burma. Growing up in the Burmese countryside, he had little education and ca…
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rapidly took over the expanding opium trade in the region. But this guy that we're talking about, his gang, gradually began exerting its own influence inside of Burma. This allowed the Burmese government, they thought, to have, because they…
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was imprisoned in the 1940s by Ho Chi Minh because he was conspiring with the KMT army of Chiang Kai-shek against Northern Vietnamese people. And he is a Catholic priest. His real name is Nguyen Loc Hoa.…
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Um, and he was not only just in Vietnam, but he also did a whole bunch of stuff in Laos. Um, and shortly after Chiang Kai-shek had fled to Thailand with his nationalist army, um, the, uh, this Catholic priest went to Laos to get out of the …
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He was being held accountable by the local Buddhist and people who he was trying to help the CIA and Chiang Kai-shek get assassinated. They were trying to hold him accountable. He wasn't being persecuted. So it says that Father Hoa had pers…
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However, as we know now, the OSS officers got outvoted and the U.S. decided to get in bed with the French. The big three powers at Potsdam divided Vietnam along the 16th parallel. Chinese forces aligned with General Chiang Kai-shek and the …
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changing the name to Taiwan and the creation of the KMT army into the main political, and for 40 years, the only political party allowed to exist in Taiwan because they lived under martial law under both Chiang Kai-shek and his son. So unde…
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the relocation of much of St. Kajsek's KMT military, or yeah, his army. So it says that the OSS officers established local espionage networks and roving patrol of fighters into organized guerrilla units and basically worked alongside the Br…
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And that they also had 10,000 other forces, which if you read other accounts is basically KMT army that was relocated there. And it says that they worked first to evict the Japanese from those locations and then were used in Burma as an occ…
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and a couple of other regions. Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the National Chinese Kuantan KMT, used the profits of criminal drug syndicates to finance his campaign against mainland China. Before the Chinese Revolution, OSS, the CIA's prede…
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In pre-revolutionary China, the ruling class had relied on the KMT and secretive yet powerful criminal and drug organizations to prevent social revolution. As Mao pointed out, these organizations possessed arms and because of their backward…
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and eventually the Crystal Triangle. After the Chinese Revolution, Chinese drug lords collaborated with the American-sponsored KMT, exiled in Taiwan to coordinate the Asian heroin trade, drawing upon the support of the China lobby in the U.…
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We are going to continue that tonight on the Alpha Warrior show because Bridget and I today found another facet of the legacy of what became the from the remnants of the Office of Public Safety. Shane Kyshek's dominance of the KMT had been …
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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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The deployment of KMT troops was important for the transportation of opium. Civil Air Transport supplied the KMT with weapons and transportation for opium, and on return flights, they brought weapons, all arranged through the Thailand secre…
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But he said his impression was that the phrase was common usage in the military before an inspection. I've had a lot of inspections in the military. I've never, ever said I was going to jail. Just saying. Colonel Pena, another Bay of Pigs v…
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put a stranglehold on his government. Egged on by the American advisors, the succeeding government of Sanakoi declared itself no longer bound by the provisions of the 1954 Geneva Agreement. They recognized the KMT nationalist Chinese govern…
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may refer to the flights of American reconnaissance aircraft that is corroborated by the revelation in the Pentagon Papers that civil air transport, along with the CIA and the Taiwanese KMT, was active in supporting the Tibetan operations o…
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that had began encroaching into China through multiple venues. And again, remember, when they say nationalist Chinese, they're talking about the KMT and Chiang Kai-shek's army that the CIA set up on Taiwan. By March, and in Burma at this po…
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i.e. Chiang Kai-shek's troops, were operating in Shan states of neighboring Burma, had crossed over into Laotian territory and were being supplied by an airlift of quote-unquote unknown planes, meaning CIA planes. Matters escalated in May w…
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intrigues in which one saw the role of not just the CIA, but also of the KMT, which is Chiang Kai-shek's army in Taiwan, the KMT troops in Laos, and their right-wing Laotian allies. I link these intrigues, as I still would today, to the fad…
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CIA, their proprietary Air America, the KMT, and its allies, which I bring together in Chapter 11, which is two chapters from now. We're on Chapter 9. As I mentioned in the introduction, I know of no more recent history of Laos or Indochina…
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and the CIA-KMT ploy of 1958, when, without doubt, the CIA encouraged Chiang, Chiang Kai-shek, to build up an offensive force on the offshore island again in spite of official U.S. advice. One such common feature was the activity of Chinese…
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Because he was an expert at using front companies to include creating front banks, like Castle Bank, to money launder. To label him just a lawyer is hilarious. Okay. General Claire Chenault, who sold civil air transport to the CIA in August…
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retained 60% ownership of the company owning Civil Air Transport Plant, which could then be used on drug missions. His subject being broadly defined by the interviews he conducted in 1971, he has little or nothing to say about the links bet…
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is the fact that without going back in time and looking at who set up Chiang and the KMT, you miss the connections even to the CIA from that perspective, because he would have never been able to be settled on Taiwan and to, for two years pr…
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Other statements scattered throughout McCoy's book sometimes suggest that the CIA and the Civil Air Transport Air America were only passively implicated with the drug traffickers or that involvement was at the agent level. The truth is that…
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for Special Warfare Activities, meaning covert operations, headed up a company called Western Enterprises, which just weirdly enough ended up in Taiwan, where all the drugs are, in Chiang Kai-shek. It served as a cover for launching the KMT…
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that were set up to attack mainland China and all of the other surrounding areas. Willis Byrd, B-I-R-D, who also was in the OSS in China with Paul Helliwell, headed a Bangkok quote-unquote trading company called Sea Supply. Sea Supply was s…
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more notable achievements, including support of the Chinese nationalists, i.e. Chiang Kai-shek, withdrawal from mainland China, airdrop support into the French area, mainly Dien Bien Phu, complete logistical and tactical air support for the…
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Civil Air Transport, Inc., the CIA proprietary, that supplied them with, all of the airlines actually, with pilots and other personnel like ground support, 60% of the capital and control of the Civil Air Transport was KMT, Chinese Nationali…
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who after the war was rumored to have been handling TV songs, multi-million dollar investments inside the United States. In the late 19th, because they were money laundering their money from the drugs into the United States. In the late 194…
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owned only 40% of the Taiwan version of civil air transport and thus could hardly be called to account when civil air patrol planes flew in support of operations conforming to Taiwan and KMT foreign policy were at odds with the official pol…
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any more than one can discern anything illegal in the fact that Air America's top operating personnel were also recruited from Pan Am. When, however, one looks beyond the Washington offices of Air America to the Asian field offices of the C…
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The most questionable of Civil Air Transport's activities was its sustained supply of arms and other material to the KMT's General Lee Me and his successors in Burma and North Thailand from 1949 to 1961. Lee Me is probably the most major op…
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for opium. So, although the British, by and large, resisted triad KMT offers to mobilize against the Chinese insurgency in Malaya, which really wasn't a Chinese insurgency, it was the indigenous people in Malaya fighting back, trying to get…
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Meanwhile, wealthy Chinese owners of the mines in the more exposed countryside found it expedient to subsidize a private army with strong KMT backing as a mobile armed force against any indigenous people fighting back. Basically, they set u…
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In Thailand, also, the farming of the opium franchise was used by the government as a means of controlling local Chinese populations, and the enormous profits from the opium traffic were traditionally a source of corruption in the governmen…
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Resistance showed every willingness to cooperate with the KMT Chinese in the campaigns against quote unquote communism, even though communism has nothing to do with this. At the same time, his police, which was funded completely by the Unit…
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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…
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So after 1952, Hung was a member of the KMT, Chiang Kai-shek's central committee. And in 1971, he was chairman of the Bank of Thailand. So you think he doesn't know all about the heroin trade into the United States? Every last bit of it. Th…
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became obvious in 1961 when Feng Chi, C-H-I-H, a member of the KMT Central Advisory Committee and Secretary General of the Free China Relief Agency, admitted responsibility for an unlisted civil air transport plane that had just been shot d…
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The Asian Pacific Anti-Communist League, which is the precursor to the World Anti-Communist League, of which the Free China Relief Agency at the same address was a member. So in other words, these are all CIA organizations, was itself an or…
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and the non-existent invasion of Laos reported by the Brook Club member John Alsop than with opium itself. It definitely had to do with the opium. The U.S. government itself commenting on the nearby rebellion of the same year in the state o…
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followed a crackdown in the summer of 1959 by the Burmese government after Pei Sengen and some 2,000 KMT troops had been driven out of Burma. In March of 1959, according to Bernard Fall, some of the nationalists, meaning Chiang Kai-shek's g…
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visited KMT, Chiang Kai-shek's camps, in Laos, Burma, and Thailand, as he had done in 1960. In August 1959, five days before the arrival of two civil air transport planes into the Laos capital, and 12 days before the alleged quote-unquote f…
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of the U.S. construction official and the pilots dabbling in all of this opium trade. They weren't dabbling. They were in charge of it. They sustained support by the proprietaries of the CIA. There was a couple other things I wanted to say.…
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who also, C.B. Starr, was in the OSS in China with Paul Helliwell, and had the help of the Philippines and other Asian capitals. Youngman's fellow directors of Starr's company have included John Woodbridge of Pan Am, Francis Randolph of J&W…
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His military was called the KMT, named after the area in which they were the warlords in China. They were all Chinese people, and Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese general. When he was defeated because he was supplying cocaine from India to the…
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of China, even though he was not. And his military was relabeled by the United States as a political party. And so any consternation about their militant attacks on mainland China and all of the other areas in Southeast Asia was an attack o…
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because this is what they were doing 70 years ago. And they haven't changed because no one went to jail. Engslinger was backed by a very powerful China lobby group, both inside and outside the government, powerful enough to suppress real in…
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American dependence on drug proxies can be traced to the CIA's decision in 49 and 50 to provide arms and logistical support for the KMT, both in China and then in 49 to Burma, which is where they got kicked out. That's where they went initi…
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and the exile of the KMT army to Taiwan. The U.S. drug proxies in Laos, including the Hmong, the Laotians, and former KMT armies were all major drug traffickers. The KMT army were also principal agents in building up the Laotian drug produc…
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in Cambodia. Millions with Pol Pot. By overthrowing their government, installing Pol Pot, millions died for oil. Okay, when the CIA began its covert involvement in Burma in 1950s, local opium production was in the order of 80 tons a year. T…
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that escalate to meet their own drug agenda. The whole history of the U.S. in the Far East since World War II has been involved from the beginning, as we well know, in a drug trafficking operation. And their initial proxy that they used was…
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Half of the units were already set up, and all he did was tell Alan Dulles how he did it. And so where China gets pulled into this is Paul Helliwell, who is part of this DIA and was an Air Force Army Corps colonel at the time, was Chiang Ka…
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And he goes, hey, you know what? You know that Gladio program that we wanted to set up, that stay behind unit? We could pay for it by selling opium. And Alan Dulles says, that's a great idea. OK, here's how we're going to do it. We're going…
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And then called the KMT army a political party. So if you attacked the day after they did all of this, if you attack the KMT army, that literally was protecting drug trafficking all over the world. And they deployed all over the world, by t…
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So if you attack the KMT, they're like, oh, my God, we're a democracy. You're attacking the democracy. Does that sound familiar? Right. Because that's what they did in Latin America. Was KMT replaced by PLA? Is this right before the PLA cam…
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Southeast Asia, fearing the loss of their opium sources and connections, had stimulated a phony war crisis in Laos. The author suspects that they did so in order to secure a new basis for drug operations in that country with the CIA airline…
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you know, it becomes Air America. It's a CIA front. This involved collusion with elements of the CIA, the military, and the Chiang Kai-shek, KMT elements. Lacking, he's saying, like a smoking gun, here it's written down that this happened. …
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And then they're getting from main China on Taiwan and they were having to start using resources to attack mainland China in order to secure the islands that the CIA had basically acquired to install the KMT. And the the conflict that was g…
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And then it became even more controversial, the creation of the civil air transport. And he just goes through here describing all of the chaos that ensues. And he says the CIA owned 40 percent of the civil air transport. The Taiwanese gover…
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The KMT did the distribution. The mafia did the distribution inside the United States, blah, blah, blah. And in 1959, that crisis was the first of a series that between 61 and 64 would lead to greater and greater involvement in Laos and Vie…
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false flag crisis. Clearly, it was a stimulus from the U.S. government that basically made all of this stuff happen. We now know that a plan for a KMT reinvasion of South China, a plan first authorized by Truman in 1951, continued to be sup…
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And this guy just says the same thing, which I surmised all along, that the whole Korean War was fought in order to reinsert Chiang Kai-shek into China so they could have control of China, like the entire mainland China. And then, of course…
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And we all know how that turns out. Perhaps the most vocal advocate of the plan from 1959 to 65 was the KMT-sponsored Asian People's Anti-Communist League, which turns into the World Anti-Communist League. Their members had a facility and t…
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and basically sponsored the airlift of the KMT opium camps from western Laos. And we've went all through that with our series on the World Anti-Communist League. But this is a quote for you. The KMT stake in the civil air transport airlift …
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A member of the KMT Central Advisory Committee and Secretary General of the Free China Relief Agency admitted responsibility for an unlisted civil air transport plane that had just been shot down over Thailand by the Burmese Air Force. The …
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invasion of 1959 suggests that the narcotics traffic, as well as the Taosan Lao activities, may have been the reason why the Civil Air Transport plane inaugural flights in that year into the opium growing areas of that province, unquote. Bu…
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along with the phony Laos crisis in 1959, would have gone unheeded had it not been for support from the CIA. A key role was played by the influential CIA ally Joseph Alsop, an old China hand and columnist whose inflammatory reports from Lao…
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airlift because, you know, the CIA always has their journalists there to document the outrage so they get whatever they want to manipulate the propaganda. We should not be surprised that the CIA and its friends took steps to protect and str…
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And therefore, you would have thought that there would have been a significant decrease, except for that's not what they wanted to have happen. But even before the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, there was support in Washington for stre…
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Under the program of the Office of Policy Coordination, OPC, which remember, that is Frank Wisner, which was originally in the State Department and then moves for the clandestine part of the CIA once it's set up, worked under private cover …
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space MI supply line. General Li Mai, who it's named after, army soon proved itself to be no threat for the new Chinese People's Republic. Its two attempted invasions in 1951 and 1952 were easily repulsed by their militia after advances of …
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Lee Mai and his army were so successful that Burma's total annual harvest of opium increased from fewer than 40 tons before World War II to between 300 and 400 tons by 1962. By the end of the 50s, Burma, Laos, and Thailand together had beco…
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Civil Air Transport supplied the troops with arms from another CIA proprietary, Sea Supply, and Sea Supply was set up by Paul Helliwell. At an OPC-built airbase in, I think that was Thailand, after delivering the arms to the KMT in Burma, a…
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were loading the KMT's opium for the return flight to Bangkok. One of these, a U.S.-China veteran by the name of Jack Killam, K-I-L-L-A-M, was murdered in 1951 after an opium deal went wrong. He was buried in an unmarked grave by CIA agent …
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Most of the KMT opium was sold to Thai police chief, who, by what McCoy calls a coincidence, was also the CIA's man in Thailand. So they were basically just doing this under the cover. It was the CIA the entire time, the entire network. How…