OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8

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0:00 Okay, we're going to get started, and we are on Chapter 8. It is of Gold Warrior. It's called Dirty Tricks, and we spent the first seven chapters kind of laying the groundwork for the ending of World War II.

0:41 pillaging of Asia by Japan. And now we're going to get into where I believe Operation Gladio lays over the top of the operations in the Asian theater, almost in an identical fashion as they did in Europe. And I'm interested to see if you guys share that thought with me.

1:14 Let me adjust my screen a little bit and we're going to jump right in. So basically it's the late 1940s and World War II is over. MacArthur moves into Japan and he's going to basically be in charge of

1:48 the transition of Japan post-nuclear bombs. So, in 1949, there is a corpse that is found along a railroad track, and it is so mangled that you can't tell whether it's a woman or a man, nothing about them. The watch that the person was wearing stopped at

2:23 12.20 a.m. So basically that was the only way they were able to identify the time of death. The victim was a 49-year-old man. His name was Simoyama Sadanori. S-A-D-A-N-O-R-I. He happened to be the president of the Japanese National Railroad. He had made the mistake of

2:56 getting rid of thousands of former soldiers who had been on the railroad's payroll. And the war was over. They didn't need it as a mechanism to pay soldiers under the table. For whatever reason, you may be doing that. So basically, he found out the hard way that these soldiers...

3:26 were on his payroll in return for kickbacks to basically their, there's a name in Japan that's, it's spelled Y-A-K-U-Z-A, Yakuza. And they're kind of a mixture of, it's like a mafia family. That's probably the best way to describe it.

4:01 By the time his murder made the newspaper, which all of the media at this time is controlled by General MacArthur, there is no free press in Japan right now. And it is actually blamed on the Japanese Communist Party, which basically doesn't even exist. So that's almost kind of the hilarity of it.

4:35 But people in America doesn't know that. So Japan was a fascist organization. They had basically like Italy. They had oligarchy, ran kind of family dominated large corporations and a fascist emperor. And between those people, they controlled everything. And then remember, Japan went all over Asia and basically conquered the entire Southeast Asia.

5:05 Korea, Vietnam, most of China, Malaysia, the Philippines. There's no communists there, okay? But somehow, under MacArthur's watch, from there being zero communists, they now have an outbreak of communism in Japan that is literally going to get blamed for everything. So how did they get there?

5:39 under the watchful eyes of the United States military, which is now occupying Japan. Sounds a little fishy to me. But remember, the whole Operation Gladio is you blame everything on the communists. So a few days later, a train is sabotaged and wrecks, and it causes the death of three people. Guess who did that? Communists. So they basically...

6:13 charged 20 workers who were trying to organize labor to be able to get a decent wage from these oligarchy companies. And the people who were advocating for better wages, you know, kind of like the left does now in the DNC, they were all labeled communists.

6:41 They sabotaged the train, killed some of the people that were actually involved in the labor organizers, and then they blame it on the labor organizers. That's really weird. Over the next 20 years, their fate became one of Japan's largest legal scandals ever because there's no communists there. So their case remained before the courts until 1970.

7:13 And this is like 1950, when the workers were exonerated and paid damages by the government for having been framed. Now, keep in mind, there's no Japanese government. This is MacArthur's troops that labeled these people as communist, framed them, and sent them to jail for something they didn't do. Because you have to have a communist boogeyman, even in Japan.

7:48 Many Japanese believe then and still today that Simayama's murder and the train wreck were both the work of American secret agents, helped by the Yakuza, because you have to have a boogeyman. The truth still is not known because all records of the U.S. occupation is sealed, classified, still today, from 1950.

8:22 Well, the actual occupation from 1945 on. All of it's classified. Shimoyama's corpse is a metaphor for many victims of a curious collusion between Washington and Tokyo during the six-year occupation. A collusion that continues to this day. The hysteria has not subsided even after the Soviet Union collapsed, the Berlin Wall crumbled, and...

8:55 China's Communist Party was opened and basically everybody deals with the CCP ran China. So you still have all of this fervor going on because at this point, there's too much money involved in ending any of it or declassifying the documents.

9:26 Discovery of the Santa Romana recoveries, which is the gold, the golden lily, it's referred to gold, suggests that anti-communist hysteria may not have been the only motivation behind the murders and collusion of the post-war years. Another factor is the great sums of money derived from this black gold, because they do not have any

9:57 need to account for any of it. This is all black ops gold, black ops money for black ops operations. America set up a secret political action fund in Japan that were used to influence the imperial family, the ruling elite, the underworld, and support the regime to keep it in power. Under the control of senior U.S. Army officers at MacArthur's headquarters, there were

10:28 bribed witnesses at the Tokyo war crime trials, there were people paid for the murder of liberal politicians and left-wing organizers. Left-wing meaning, you know, pro-worker or something like that. Also documented in another book called the Yamato Dynasty, Japan's right-wing leaders were fully aware of America's anti-communist

10:59 The author says fears, but it isn't fears, it's hype and cravings during this period. They responded to them with enthusiasm and cleverness. The democratization of Japan was reversed. It's government given back to indicted war criminals, specifically the group surrounding Kishi Nobosuke, last name N-O-B-O-S-U-K-E.

11:29 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 the black gold were put into the covert pipeline,

11:57 hidden all by the rubber stamp of national security under the CIA. Nobody had to keep track of the way it was spent, whether it was originally for a strategic purpose of Roosevelt or Truman. The funds fell into the hands of corrupt people, rising fears of communism.

12:18 at every turn, did keep citizens of both countries from questioning the deals that were being made between the two governments, which was the whole purpose of the communist scare. Because each and every time they invoke national security, say we can't tell you anything, it allows them to hide documents, and anyone protesting this was ridiculed as a Japan basher or terrorist or communist sympathizer.

12:53 Anyone who might reveal too much became a victim of assisted suicide. Japan and the rest of the world were flooded with news stories and other propaganda that created false impressions. And again, all of the press in Japan during this time that MacArthur was there was controlled. And even to get stories printed, you had to be on MacArthur's good side. So basically, they controlled everything.

13:28 Japan was always portrayed during this period of time as a poverty-stricken country, unable to pay reparations to victims like the POWs that they worked almost to death or the families of the ones they actually worked to death or terrorized and killed. It was obvious that Japan had plenty of money because they had

13:58 golden lily gold that they had stole from all the rest of the countries. So it now seems inescapable that the 1951 Japanese peace treaty was falsely contrived to buy Japan's cooperation during the Cold War. So it also was to Japan's elite's benefit because they weren't going to have to give up any of their war plunder and reparations.

14:30 to the people's family that they murdered. So our government got out of it, the use of all of this gold, by pretending that Japan was poor. And Japan's royal family and elite got to keep all of their wealth that they had tucked away. And so basically, as with all of these schemes, it was just us that got screwed.

15:04 So, in the treaty that was negotiated between Japan and the Allied powers, there was Article 14 added to the treaty, which is, this is a quote, it is recognized that Japan should pay reparations to the Allied powers for the damage and suffering caused by it during the war. Nevertheless, it is also recognized that the resources of Japan are not

15:34 presently sufficient. Therefore, the Allied powers waive all reparation claims of the Allied powers and their nationals arising out of any actions taken by Japan. From this, it became the dogma that individual victims could not expect compensation for their torture or brutalization.

16:02 as civilian slave laborers or as POWs from Mitsubishi, Mitsu, or Sumitomo, which were the three major companies that used them as slave labor. To this day, the State Department and the Justice Department shield the government of Japan and still invoke Article 14 of the 1951 Peace Treaty to block any attempt of the victims.

16:32 to get compensated from these immensely rich corporations that lost basically not a penny. In fact, Santa Romana recoveries demonstrate the treaty is invalid because it is based on lies and deceptions, meaning the Japanese government knew where 175 sites of gold and treasure was located and that they were not without resources.

17:04 The entire treaty is a lie. So this book actually references what we have already covered in other book reviews. The very first election that this money was used to influence was in 1948 in Italy. And that shows you that all of this stuff is one global network operating together.

17:38 Well, thank you, Oddheimer. I appreciate that. So in the post-war Italy, keep in mind, Italy was ran by Mussolini during the war. He is told by the king he has to go. He's out on the island, out of Skorzeny, brings him up to Hitler, and they're going to have an election once the Allied army takes over Italy.

18:10 And just like this liberal democratic party must be a worldwide entity because that's the party that everybody gets elected to that ends up being pro-NATO, pro-one world government. So it's the one that gets installed everywhere. Oh, so cool.

18:44 Ray and boys, thank you for your contribution and support. It'll buy me more books. Okay, so we have in post-war Italy, CIA agent James Jesus Angleton recovered Ethiopian treasure plundered by Mussolini's forces. And instead of returning it to the Ethiopian people,

19:14 It was appropriated by the CIA and used to finance pro-American and anti-communist candidates in Italy in 1948 elections. But again, I'm using the author's terms. These are not anti-communist candidates. These are candidates that didn't want to be part of NATO. They were nationalistic, to use a term that's way overused today. They cared about their country as opposed to all of Europe.

19:44 And we learned in our other book that over $5 million was used to affect the outcome of that election in 1948 dollars. That would be like a billion now. In addition, the agency raised a great deal of money in Europe from the sale of surplus U.S. war material and gave this money to the Vatican, earmarked explicitly for the war in Italy. So just for all you new people.

20:17 The Vatican Bank in 1942 was set up, which corresponds with the same date in 1942, not like on the date, but the year, in Germany that the werewolves was set up, the werewolf units. So keep that in mind. And the Vatican Bank was used to money launder a lot of the drug sales, weapon sales, and any other way that they were generating cash.

20:48 that money was laundered through the Vatican Bank until it got so immense that they had to start setting up other banks to use. So the Vatican Bank sheltered Harajito's assets and Nazi assets during the war. It is also one of the 42 countries to which Ray Klein said the recovered Golden Lily bullion was shipped during the 1945 to 1947.

21:21 It is also one of the banks named as having accounts in Santee's various names. And that's going to be very important when we get to him trying to recover it and how the banks, it's a big, complicated mess. And we're going to get to that. But keep that in mind. So Ray Klein is saying that recovered Golden Lily gold was shipped to the Vatican Bank and 42 other countries. Thank you, Sherry.

21:50 Appreciate the contribution. By the 1960s, Angleton was back in Washington running the counterintelligence staff of the CIA. The Gestapo, which had its own very, very secret slush fund that was also never audited, came under the CIA's control as well.

22:18 So because all of this money is covert money, none of it has to be accounted for. It can be used on anything. How it was used remains a secret today. Apparently, it can never, based on how this worked, you can never track who was bribed, coerced, paid off, or any way that it was used.

22:52 So covert actions like manipulating the Italian elections of 1948 was also a fallout of the Truman Doctrine that was set up, the backbone of every U.S. administration foreign policy since 1948, when President Truman declared America's commitment to global hegemony and made it clear that the Cold War would set the tone of the future U.S. foreign policy and military policy.

23:19 U.S. covert intervention occurred in Greece when Britain gave notice that her empty treasury compelled her to end all financial and military aid to the eastern end of the Mediterranean. She basically withdrew from her role. That's not exactly how that happened because we've read about that in Greece and Turkey. Britain got kicked out of Turkey. She didn't withdraw.

23:46 But as soon as she got kicked out, the U.S. tried to come back in. Greece was thrown into a civil war and Turkey was viewed as being vulnerable as well. Secretary of State Dean Atkinson called the rotten apple in the barrel syndrome.

24:07 later called the domino theory, when they were saying, if you let one country be communist, then they're all going to fall. That was just an excuse because we know now they had to create the communist threat. So Congress asked for $400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey. Quote, at the present moment, nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life.

24:37 One way of life is based upon the will of the majority and is distinguished by free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom of political oppression. The second way of life is based on the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority. It relies upon terror and oppression, a controlled press and radio, fixed elections, and the suppression of personal freedoms.

25:07 Now, we have to stop right there. The Secretary of State just articulated exactly word for word what they were doing, only in reverse. Dean Atkinson is on the side of the CIA. It is the CIA that is the minority forcing upon the majority of a country, and this country is Italy.

25:43 current time that we're talking about, but it goes on to be Turkey because they assassinated that guy that got elected president there and Greece. They assassinated that guy too. So they are imposing the will of the majority of the citizens of those countries. They relied on terror and oppression. They controlled the press because they killed journalists that tried to report the truth. They controlled the radios.

26:11 They fixed elections. I just told you they spent $5 million on the Italian election in 1948 and repress freedoms. But the way he presents it in the United States is you have to give me $400 million to fix all of this stuff or that's going to happen. It had already happened and it was them doing it. We can literally be lied to about everything. So Truman simultaneously that this was going on.

26:46 authorized the use of Axis war loot and other unvouchered funds to do precisely what I just described, to terrorize, oppress, steal freedoms, fix elections, and otherwise interfere with political life and sovereign nations to buy elections and undercut the rule of law, control the media, carry out assassinations, and impose our will on everybody. The man put in charge of the dirty

27:16 trick squad was Frank Wisner, W-I-S-N-E-R. He had essentially a free hand in Asia. CIA director Alan Dulles knew little about Asia. He spent his wartime in Europe. So he gave that part of the world basically to Wisner's Office of Policy Coordination.

27:41 Wisner basically ran that office in the State Department prior to the setup of the CIA, and then he came over with that office to the CIA after it was set up. This included a bunch of quote-unquote OSS China cowboys, and we talked about them in another book that we have reviewed called The China Lobby. Driven from China by the communist victory in 1949, the cowboys regrouped in Japan, Korea,

28:12 and Taiwan. Because remember, Taiwan is where the General Chiang, who's the largest drug dealer in all of the, why does it look like she's in an RV? Because I am in an RV. Mom, thank you, Minnesota mom, thank you for noticing. This is my mobile command post. I probably should have introduced that at the beginning of our session. You'll see me oftentimes in here. We do spend a lot of time.

28:43 traveling around. I also, when we have guests at our house, I sneak out to the RV in the pole barn and do my book reviews from here. So welcome to my mobile command post. So just for you that are new to the podcast, we have discovered and talked about it repeatedly that the opium general Chiang

29:09 that is chinese and he lived in china dealt drugs in china um basically to the west uh when mal takes over he gets kicked out and he and his army which is the kmt she's in her mobile home redneck hey i grew up in a mobile home don't be talking like that um they moved to burma and then

29:33 The Burmese government gets tired of being in the crosshairs with all of the killing of their citizens and stuff by the gangs affiliated with the drugs and the CIA's glommed all over them. So they kick Chiang out of there, too. He, at that point, goes to Formosa, which was the original name of Taiwan. He sets up his drug kingdom there and changes the name to Taiwan.

30:02 basically converts his KMT army into a political party, who, by the way, is still in charge of Taiwan today. So nothing that we've been told about Taiwan is true either. So there's an entire apparatus that was created around that drug trade that was basically referred to the American part of it as the China lobby, and it had to do with not only the OSS, but the CIA after that.

30:33 So Wisner was a pivotal figure in giving post-war U.S. covert operations a lot of money and doing a lot of really bad things. He had spent the war in the OSS in Cairo, Istanbul, and Bucharest, where he was also stationed in Germany immediately after the war.

31:03 Wisner came up with the idea of hiring all of the ex-Nazis, with Alan Dulles, of course, to create this anti-communist fifth column. His powerful friends, the Dulles brothers, George Kennan, Avril Harrison, Joe and Stuart Alsop, were so excited that Wisner's eccentric ideas for subversion

31:29 sabotage and assassinations that they basically got him the job at the CIA. So he hired all of these people under the guise of fighting communism and basically both Nazi and Japanese war criminals qualified for financial support under his program because basically as we

31:55 saw when we went through all of Germany and did several book reviews on what happened in the post-war where they hired all the Nazis back into the German government and into NATO and into the UN and into the United States and Egypt. And I mean, even Israel hired a few of them. So they're everywhere. They basically just took the entire.

32:18 except for the few they hung for show. They just threw the rest of them all over the world. They went as far as Malaysia, literally all over the world. And so Wisner funded his covert teams initially by siphoning off funds from the Marshall plan, but then eventually gets some of this

32:50 golden lily money, and then they really go to town. So at one point, Wisner is quoted as saying, we couldn't spend it all. There was no limit and nobody was accounting for any of it. So by 1952, after only four years on the job, he had set up 47 overseas stations with a staff of nearly 3,000 plus 3,000 people doing contracted CIA work.

33:19 His appropriated budget was $84 million. How big was his unofficial budget? Because that $84 million isn't going to buy you a whole lot based on what he was doing. So he hires a guy by the name of Desmond Fitzgerald, who he had worked with before in the OSS. And one of his favorite agents was Lansdell, who also had worked in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Indochina.

33:49 Thailand, Indonesia, and also in the Philippines. Because Lansdell, if you remember in the former chapter, was the guy that beheaded Napoleon Valianio. So they were all set to carry out assassinations and any other crimes that needed to be done with all of this money. So you have Wisner and Fitzgerald doing covert operations.

34:23 Never, never. And they had all kinds of screw ups and everything else. But Lansdell eventually was forced to retire from the CIA in 1963. At the same time, Wisner, the agency's Mad Hatter, suffered what was called a nervous breakdown and basically hastily retired. However, neither one of them actually retired at that point.

34:52 It was during the 1960s, like in the aftermath of in the lead up and aftermath of Kennedy's assassination, where they moved a lot of the old prose from the CIA into off the book.

35:10 operations. So they created a whole bunch of front companies and they put these people in those front companies like they retired and went into private business. But that business was a front company for them to continue doing operations. So like Angleton, political action funds were set up and the CIA post-war Japan was based on the stolen gold and other treasure.

35:39 Some of the treasure was recovered by Santo Romano, Romana. The rest was loot discovered and confiscated by the U.S. 8th Army in Japan, which kept as bullion, in the case of diamonds, converted into liquid assets. Takashida, a post-war student leader in the university law school with close ties to the CIA,

36:09 General MacArthur was the key figure in setting up a thing called the M Fund, like M as in MacArthur, Fund. MacArthur realized, as General Marshall did in Europe, that a substantial sum of money would be needed to restore the economy of Japan. General Marshall had to go to Congress to get money. General MacArthur found that the Imperial Army of Japan

36:36 had very large resources that were not on the books of the country. They had occupied Korea for nearly half a century. They had occupied a large portion of China for many years. Southeast Asia, the Philippines, all of these areas produced large amounts of resources. The army brought back to Japan, which is basically Golden Lily.

37:02 MacArthur set aside a substantial fund to be used for rebuilding the economy of Japan, but MacArthur also saw that some of that money needed to be used for other purposes that would not stand public scrutiny, like helping getting people elected. MacArthur decided that they would keep this fund confidential. According to an investigative journalist, the M Fund was published by Nike in...

37:31 I-K-E-I, Japan's most respected financial journal. Much of the cash derived from sale of confiscated stockpiles of diamonds, platinum, gold, silver, and other strategic materials, and the black market sale in Japan of U.S. foreign aid, like embezzling U.S. foreign aid. Other sources were proceeds from the sale of several

38:04 Zabatsu conglomerates that were broken up and sold into other entities like for Western foreign investment. Yeah, just like that. Because every one of these things is done for the international syndicate to get in and buy up resources. So there always has to be an end for them. The size of the M Fund at its inception is not known precisely.

38:31 However, it was estimated based on the accounting that had been done to be at least $2 billion. And then again, this is 1950. That's like probably a trillion dollars today. Longtime Tokyo correspondent Robert Whitting described it as, quote, a secret billion-dollar slush fund equivalent to nearly 10% of Japan's 1950.

39:01 He also said, quote, the Japanese government also sold on the black market great stockpiles of gold, silver and copper, which they had concealed in 1945 in anticipation of Japan's defeat, unquote. That's when they said they were broke. So they're sitting on a billion dollar slush fund and MacArthur and John Foster Dulles signed a treaty.

39:34 telling us that they were broke. And that's just in this one fund. We're going to find some more funds. Most of Japan's military supplies stockpiled for the final bloodbath defense of the homelands just vanished. Or, you know, was available for weapons trafficking. Articles about the M-Fund published by reputable Japanese weekly magazines.

40:06 said a lot of the money raised by the covert sale of these materials went to the high government officials and politicians. The magazine said 800,000 carats of diamonds stored in the Bank of Japan inexplicably shrank to only 160,000 carats. Even after the occupation ended, there were movement by the American side to deposit black money behind the scenes.

40:35 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 bars, platinum, radium, copper, other vital materials. In order to curry favor with MacArthur's men, Kodama turned...

41:06 the radium over to basically MacArthur. John Carroll states that at the war's end, Kodama had a good portion of his valuables transported to a vault of the imperial family in the imperial palace. Despite his lifelong involvement in murder, kidnapping, drugs, and extortion, Kodama is said to have been regarded by Emperor Hirohito as a patriot.

41:35 possibly because of the great sums that he generated for Golden Lily. This may explain why Japan's top gangster was permitted to hide some of his loot in the palace vaults. But it goes much deeper to include also narcotics. In the spring of 1945, Kodama made a quick trip to Taiwan. And who's in Taiwan? Chiang. To see that its many heroin factories were dismantled,

42:06 for return to Japan, along with remaining stocks of heroin and morphine. On his return, Kodama was assigned to be a special advisor to the emperor's uncle, who served as Japan's prime minister briefly at the start of the U.S. occupation. He had two to three of us counselors arrange a meeting and, secretly unknown to his cabinet ministers, visited General MacArthur.

42:37 Kadama provides no details of what transpired at that meeting. Kadama then spent two years in the Sugamo prison as an indicted war criminal, but was magically released in 1948 when he made a deal with General Willoughby to give the CIA $100 million, equal to $1 billion today. This payment bought Kadama his freedom from prison and from prosecution from any further war crimes.

43:07 The money was placed in one of the secret slush funds controlled by the CIA stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Japan. Kodama was put directly on the CIA's payroll at this point, and then he remained there for many years until his death in 1984. It was reported in the New York Times that Kodama had a working relationship with the CIA.

43:32 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? Because then Chiang goes into Taiwan and starts doing drugs out of there too. So it's interesting.

44:02 that it was a drug factory before and after the end of World War II, just depending on who's selling the drugs. China, who had collaborated with Japan in drug processing and distribution, which is Chiang, by the way, because it wasn't China under Mao, because he strictly forbade that, were given sanctuary and began operating from Japanese soil.

44:33 Two of the three major players soon died. So Nationalist China General Tai Li was assassinated in a plane crash, and Tai Li is who Chiang replaced. The Shanghai godfather, Yat-Shing,

45:00 died in Hong Kong of natural causes in 1951. So Kodama was left as the Asian top drug lord. But then Chiang says, hold my beer, because he comes up behind General Lee as the nationalist Chinese drug lord. U.S. propaganda

45:28 characterized Asia's drug trade as exclusively being generating out of China, the communist party. So doing the exact same thing that's going on right now, where are the drugs coming from? Because they're telling us today it's coming from communist China. Well, you know what they did in 1950? They said it was coming from communist China then too, when it absolutely was not generated from communist China at all. And I'm not saying Mao's a good guy.

45:58 He wasn't the drug lord. The drug lord was Kodama and Chiang. So the author goes on to say, in truth, it was dominated by Kodama in Japan and General Chiang through the KMT army that he ran based in the Golden Triangle, who were under the direct control of

46:29 the general's son, who was the KMT chief military intelligence guy. The two top KMT opium drug lords before Chiang took over was a guy by the name of General Tang, T-U-A-N, and General Li. So that kind of sums up the...

47:00 The situation, the drugs produced during the war by the Japanese government soon found their way onto the black market, either through direct diversion by American servicemen, through indirect diversion by the Taiwanese, which would be Chiang, and Korean middlemen set up to disperse drugs. Drawing on linkages with the Korean base in Japan,

47:28 You had several people that basically organized a network between Taiwan, Korea, and Japan. So it's inevitable that the political action funds that America set up in Japan would be diverted for use in not a good way. Americas were involved in diverting the funds, which benefited and was also abused.

47:58 Three underground funds were controlled by American officials during the occupation. One was called the M Fund that we've talked about. The other one is Yatsuya, Y-O-T-S-U-Y-A Fund. And the third one is called the Kenan Fund, K-E-E-N-A-N. According to one of the officials in Japan, the M Fund

48:28 was named after General William Frederick Marquat, M-A-R-Q-U-A-T, chief of the economic and scientific section. In theory, Marquat headed America's program to punish and reform Japanese businesses that had gouged people as war profiteers. In reality, the Marquat business business

48:57 was public relations headache was how to keep them, to be able to conceal the profits, which was basically by custom supposed to be shared with the imperial family. So this is another one of those dodging, if you will. It said, one of the historians explained it as,

49:29 Assume responsibility for nothing less than supervising all developments in finance, economics, labor and science, including the delusion, the disillusion of the Zabatsu holding companies and the promotion of economic deconcentration. Every major government, financial and economic institution reported to his section. So basically, he's going to be the.

49:56 head coordinator of like a fascist kind of coordination among businesses. And little has been written about Marquat, who usually is portrayed as an amicable nincompoop. Their words, not mine. Unfit for the job. Like Willoughby and Whitney, Marquat was one of MacArthur's inner circle boys.

50:26 whose chief quality was undying loyalty, not necessarily the smartest tack in the shop. So it says that he paid little attention to the jargon and basically he served as a butt boy, as did Willoughby. Marquardt was supposed to dissolve the banks and conglomerates that financed the Japanese war and profited from it. But of course, we know he didn't do that.

50:54 Despite purely cosmetic changes, the breakup and the sale of a few small businesses, while all of the biggest profiteers were left intact and received no punishment whatsoever. General Marquardt was also in charge of closing down and punishing the biological and chemical warfare service called Unit 731. But instead, the U.S. government secretly absorbed

51:24 Unit 731, moving most of the scientists, personnel, and documents to the U.S. Military Research Lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland. All information about its activities, including the biological warfare atrocities and horrific experiments, not only on the locals but on Americans as well, was withheld by Washington from the American and Japanese public. The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunals didn't even deal with it.

51:53 All of 731's records were held by the U.S. government and still classified as top secret. The M Fund was created to buy elections in Japan, but elsewhere as well, so that they could ensure the anti-communist always won or the pro-West guy. Japan was the most highly industrialized country in Asia. For its economy to thrive, there would be no need for

52:22 labor unions or leftist organizers or anything of the such. So, of course, we're not going to let any of those happen because we're free and democratic. This was the view of American conservatives who thought President Roosevelt was also a communist and believed that Britain should have allied itself with Germany and Japan and gone to war against Russia.

52:50 Unsurprisingly, there is a lot of those people around that immediately after the war said that they had fought with the wrong countries against the wrong enemy, meaning that it should have always been focused on the Soviet Union, which they started that, both Churchill and others started that.

53:19 conversation before the war even ended because their philosophy was we were going to be in perpetual wars from that point forward, which we basically have been. So the first big application of the end fund came in the late 1940s when a socialist government happened to win an election in Japan. The development that astounded, panicked and galvanized the MacArthur types and

53:53 They basically discredited the socialist cabinet and wanted to replace it with one that the Washington liked more. So later, when Tokyo considered establishing relationships with China, sums again were dispersed to get Japan back on the right track, and they elected a pro-Western prime minister.

54:21 Washington relaxed when Yoshida was elected because they had a lot to do with the election. During his period as prime minister, the M Fund was called the Yoshida Fund. After he ceased to be prime minister, it then reverted back to the M Fund. In a conversation in 1987, White House National Security Advisor Richard Allen said,

54:52 All my life, I've heard of this thing called the Yoshida Fund. I think that's the same thing as the M Fund, unquote. So the author actually says that there was two separate funds, the M Fund and the Yoshida Fund. This was set up to manipulate and steer Japan's underworld and to finance wet works, which is assassinations. General Willoughby, MacArthur's favorite.

55:28 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 speech. The concept of democracy was long

55:57 regarded by Japan's ruling elite as a poisonous idea that the West had. In Japan, even the mildest kind of dissent was not tolerated. The suppression of dissent became synonymous with anti-communist, which of course is what we've said all through Operation Gladio, right? Anything that they were going to suppress got labeled as

56:24 so that the anti-communist mantra could be thrown into the mix. That's how they basically justified isolating Castro. It's how they justified assassinating Lumumba and basically all of the duly elected people in South America. It was all, they're communists, we have to kill them.

56:54 I was just fascinated reading through this book at the similarities to what was happening in Europe and then realized as I got about halfway through this book, this is Operation Gladio, i.e. the Pacific Rim. So the one fund, the Yasuya Fund, was used to finance the Korean liaison office.

57:30 And basically it's where they kind of launched their counter insurgency spying capability. They use that fund for it. Yasuda. So that was kind of, it also says that area is an actual district in Japan.

58:01 where the gangsters, prostitutes, and bottom feeders all kind of hang out and where the black market thrives. So you would not find it at all surprised that they would name their black market fund after black market district in Japan. Kickbacks in post-war was given to the Mandarin Club, a casino and brothel.

58:31 that was ran by an American by the name of Ted Lewin, L-E-W-I-N, who was a pal of Kadama, funded by the Cannon Agency, which was Willoughby's dirtiest and wettest operation in Japan. So evidently, Cannon Agency is an assassin for hire organization. It was named for U.S. Army Colonel Y.

59:03 excuse me, J.Y. Cannon. This was the military version of Murder, Inc., a death squad. Jack Cannon arranged for the beatings and killings of student leaders, liberals, leftists, socialists, union leaders, scholars, journalists, and anyone who got in the way. Cannon worked closely with a guy by the name of Machi, M-A-C-H-I-I.

59:31 Kodama's Korean lieutenant who beheaded an ethnic Korean Yakuza leader. Jack Cannon initially worked for the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps, the CIC, which are basically the same guys that were doing kind of OSS-like operations in Europe. They kind of went hand in hand. Little rivalry between the two, but basically did the same job.

1:00:00 His job was to ferret out and murder dissidents. One of the interpreters that was employed by Willoughby, who once had helped Cannon blow open a safe, recalled that the colonel always behaved like a movie star gangster. Once the Cannon agency was set up, Jack Cannon became something.

1:00:27 that would have chilled the blood of most Americans. He is thought to have been behind the kidnapping of a prominent writer by the name of K.A.J.I. Also attributed to him is the torture, dismemberment, and murder of Semiyama, the railroad guy that we started off the chapter with. It is thought that it was Cannon's group that did that assassination. Whenever he needed

1:00:58 a hand, Cannon called on Machi's Korean gangs. He also was suspected of arranging plane crashes that took the lives of British and American diplomats and military officers who were doing any investigations into anything that he was doing. When the job was so wet and dirty that it became, that it needed to be completely divorced from Washington, Willoughby

1:01:27 bypassed cannon and brought in a murder squad called KATOH, the acronym for five Japanese army officers who did surgical assassinations for money. Willoughby was judged by the U.S. Army contemporaries to be incompetent, paranoid, and driven to cover up his misjudgments. Willoughby's activities still are kept secret by the U.S. government half a century later.

1:01:57 The Keenan Fund, by contrast, was controlled by a civilian by the name of Joseph Keenan, another MacArthur's intimate who was chief prosecutor in the Tokyo war crimes trials. Previously, Keenan had been the chief of the U.S. Justice Department's criminal division. Well, of course, you gotta get DOJ in this corrupt crap somehow. Keenan had been, um,

1:02:29 He had gotten a reputation as a gangbuster and also a heavy drinker. He's going to fit right in. So his appointment as the chief war crimes prosecutor in Tokyo was criticized because he wasn't even considered to be a good lawyer. But it didn't matter because they weren't going to prosecute anybody that should be prosecuted anyway. Just bring him in. Keenan's personal assistant.

1:02:59 was General Tanaka Takeyoshi, which is ridiculous because he was one of the bad guys. So he's going to help prosecute his fellow bad guys. You can't make this crap up. So Tanaka spent the late 1930s and 40s in Shanghai running covert operations.

1:03:34 He personally carried out many murders himself. And he's going to help prosecute the bad guys. You can't make this up. You can't make this up. So we mentioned Kenan had a severe drinking problem. He also really liked the ladies. So General Tanaka took charge of Kenan's date book and set him up with lots of brothel appointments.

1:04:06 And then when Keenan would pass out, this guy would get him home safely. So you see how that all worked? Anybody, and I say this all the time to people when people say, oh, we want Nuremberg 2.0. We never had a Nuremberg 1.0. It was all a scam. It was a scam in Japan too, as we just found out.

1:04:36 Unlike the broad mandates of the M Fund and the Yosutia Fund, the Kenan Fund had a very narrow and specific function. It was going to be used to bribe witnesses at the war crime trials, to grease the testimony, and basically to make a mockery of the war crimes tribunal, which dragged on for three years with a lot of horse trading done.

1:05:05 with the money from that fund. Although the tribunals were labeled as an international commission, the whole operation was carried out exclusively by MacArthur's inner circle. MacArthur invested himself in broad powers. The tribunal was kept under his sole exclusive authority. The tribunal shall not be bound by technical rules of evidence. That was actually said out loud. Accordingly,

1:05:33 MacArthur's men were able to control access to the defendants, to suborn whoever they wished, and to arrange omissions of evidence. Money changed hands secretly to assure scapegoats that their families would be cared for. In another book this author wrote called Yamato Dynasty, private papers of MacArthur's military secretary, Brigadier General Bonner Fellers.

1:06:03 F-E-L-L-E-R-S, revealed that he personally suborned witnesses, got them to falsely testify, and make sure that Emperor Haruhito was not brought to trial. MacArthur sent secret telegrams to Eisenhower saying that the investigations conducted by his organization could not support any criminal charges against Haruhito. Quote,

1:06:28 No specific or tangible evidence has been uncovered with regard to the emperor's exact activities, which might connect him in varying degrees with the political decisions of the Japanese empire during the last decade, unquote, which was a bold face lie. Documents we found in MacArthur's Memorial Norfolk, Virginia collection show that MacArthur and Bonner fellers conspired with former President Herbert Hoover.

1:06:58 to guarantee that Haruhito would escape punishment of any kind and that General Tojo would falsify his testimony to take all responsibility for the attack on Pearl Harbor. Intermediaries, including Admiral Yone, was paid large sums of money from the Kenan Fund to negotiate with Tojo and guarantee his perjury. General Fellers proudly described his meeting with Yone.

1:07:29 to set up the false testimony. During the war, incidentally, that admiral was the immediate supervisor of Rear Admiral Kodoma, who is now the guy orchestrating everything, who at works. The number of key witnesses who assisted died violently or under suspicious circumstances. Dang, that's like here.

1:07:56 Fellers and MacArthur intensely disliked Hirohito's close advisor and one-time prime minister, Prince Kono. One of the few statesmen who had tried to talk Hirohito into seeking an early peace, Fellers denounced the prince as a rat who quite prepared to sell anyone out to save himself, and who had even called his master, the emperor, a major war criminal.

1:08:26 Kono was blackballed by MacArthur's men and hounded to despair by a campaign of backbiting, disinformation, and innuendo. He was falsely informed that his name had been added to a list of war criminals and that he faced imminent arrest, imprisonment, and hanging. Prince Kono was found dead in his home under suspicious circumstances.

1:08:54 They said he would not submit to the indignity of a trial and the official ruling was suicide. But it appears to have been one of the first post-war episodes of assisted suicide. That's what this author says, or suicided, as we say in Hillary's case. Several authors have written books about the fact that he was murdered because he represented a danger to the plans of MacArthur to exonerate Hirohito.

1:09:30 Crucial witnesses also died conveniently before the trials began of the two princes that were responsible for many of the wartime atrocities. And several of their aides developed heart trouble and died. Bribes from the Kenan Fund were also used to prevent testimony from Japan's biological and chemical warfare program.

1:10:00 and the vast scale of looting carried out under the Operation Golden Lily. We now know that the U.S. government and allied governments browbeat POWs when they were liberated from Japan slave labor camps. They were bullied into signing secret oaths before they were allowed to go home, forced to swear that they would never reveal anything that they knew about the war looting or about the chemical or biological testing of Unit 731.

1:10:29 Even men who had been victims of the medical experimentation was forced to take this oath. At the time, they were told it was their patriotic duty to remain silent. Today, they realize that they were victimized by their own government when they had no interest in justice other than covering their butt. Willoughby also took on the job of falsifying the Japanese military history of the Pacific War.

1:10:56 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 historical documents basically

1:11:26 attribute those to other people. The monographs were then laundered of anything remotely sensitive, and once sanitized, they were published by the U.S. government, collectively titled Japanese Studies in World War II. So the reports prepared by Willoughby's office constitute the most important single Japanese source on Japanese operations in the Pacific and Asian theater. Willoughby

1:11:55 persuaded Kadama to write a memoir guaranteed to please his new American clients, disingenuously titled, I Was Defeated. In the English translation, it was published in 1951 by a CIA proprietary publishing corporation called Asian Publications. Listed as publishers was Harvey Fedukta, who did the editing, and Robert Booth, who did the bookkeeping.

1:12:24 In 1952, the same publishers gave birth to the English language translation of Colonel Zushi, a man who readers will recall had been charged by the British investigators with cannibalism. So, he was presented with a falsified copy in which he claimed he spent years after the war hiding from the Allies.

1:12:51 when in fact he was, like Kodama, an employee of General Willoughby's and the CIA. The purpose of these memoirs was to shift war blame away from certain politicians so they could be groomed for specific political careers post-war Japan. Kodama's memoir put the blame for the war exclusively on the senior officers of the Japanese Army and Navy, most of which were all dead. He portrayed as fanatical war-crazed monsters.

1:13:21 But, you know, the emperor was fine. And so were all the princes that blew up all those caves and buried all those people alive. They're all fine, too. Kadama provided funds from his own deep pocket to launch two post-war political parties headed by rightist, which basically fascist, which eventually merged into the Liberal Democratic Party.

1:13:50 which seemed to have all the fascists around the world in it. The political views expressed in his memoirs were designed for American audiences. The main purpose was to purge the occupation. The directive of the occupation forces should have been to eliminate those who had collaborated with the war aggression, and yet they didn't do any of that.

1:14:21 The Socialist Party leaders were basically asking for MacArthur and his staff to do something about how bad the corruption was getting. And of course, they kind of were just brushed off because all of the people that were corrupt was basically on the CIA's or MacArthur's payroll. So for three decades, Kadama worked closely with Harvey.

1:14:52 Fukuta, which was a publisher in Salt Lake City. Harvey Fukuta spent the war broadcasting anti-Japanese radio propaganda. In post-war Tokyo, he was chosen by Willoughby to be Kodama's full-time press secretary.

1:15:22 Their collaboration was so successful that Feduta was rewarded with his own CIA proprietary company, which was called Japan PR. So another front company. And Kodama was the source of the supplemental funds for the front company. Kodama spoke no English. Feduta and his personal interpreter worked.

1:15:52 as the interpreter between Kodama and Americans in basically all aspects of what happened in the aftermath of the war. When America ran short of tungsten, Kodama offered to sell some of the supply that he had from China. A deal Harvey Paduta discreetly negotiated with U.S. diplomat Eugene Doman, and in the late 1950s,

1:16:22 Paduta had set up the original meeting between Kodoma and Lockheed Aircraft Executives when Kodoma agreed to funnel bribes to induce the Japanese government officials to buy Lockheed airplanes. This climaxed into a major scandal in the 1970s when Kodoma's role as the bag man was revealed and U.S. officials and business executives was charged with corruption. And let me tell you, if you don't know about this deal,

1:16:53 Just do a search on Lockheed Japanese corruption. It is a crazy story. Why was Japan's most powerful crime lord kept on the federal payroll of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan? A payroll also reviewed by George H.W. Bush while serving as director of the CIA.

1:17:20 Kodoma also was Japan's most ardent anti-communist. And there's your answer. Yes, you're right. That is what we use for the light bulbs now. Knowledge of the Asian underworld made him an effective fixer at the time when Washington was alarmed by supposedly the threat of the Soviet Union and the Red China, but we know that's all made up. In August 1949,

1:17:55 Moscow treated, tested its own atomic bomb. In 49, China basically came into being as a communist entity. Eight months later, the Korean War broke out, which is nothing like what we've been told. And we're going to do a whole show on that. Kadama accompanied John Foster Dulles.

1:18:22 to negotiations in Seoul. The Dulles party included Kodama's protege, Makai, who was the boss of the Korean Yakuza in Japan. And there was an effort to do a FOIA on what Kodama and Machi did during this trip with Dulles.

1:18:52 But none of it has ever been disclosed. Another national security secret. MacArthur's Memorial Archive, we discovered a personal letter from Kodoma to General MacArthur offering to provide thousands of Japanese Army soldiers to fight alongside American soldiers in Korea. Korea and Japan. Sources in Korea and Japan.

1:19:23 Said the offer was accepted and these men joined the Allied forces on the peninsula. And again, we're going to have a whole different show on that. That's a crazy story. Peace treaty negotiations with Japan proceeded in secrecy. The San Francisco conference in April 1951 was when they had the treaty. John Foster Dulles was the responsible person as well as Dean Atkinson.

1:19:52 the guy we quoted earlier. And let's see. Kodoma also held private talks with Dulles to discuss the terms. Many countries were making demands for reparations, but Atkinson said he made it clear to other signatories that Japan could not pay monetary reparations, although it pretends to be a

1:20:21 treaty achieved by allies, it was actually written exclusively by John Foster Dulles and negotiated in secrets. Atkinson admitted in his memoirs, quote, to accomplish the treaty negotiations required a determination amounting to times as ruthlessness, unquote. So they basically lied. Americans and Europeans who toured Japan

1:20:52 immediately after the surrender were surprised that infrastructure factories, utilities, railroads were largely left intact. Thanks to selective American bombing, firebombing had destroyed tens of thousands of tinderbox homes of ordinary Japanese, but none of the vital infrastructure was damaged. None of it. Vast areas of poor people's residents, shops, factories were gutted.

1:21:22 But a good number of the homes of the wealthy, all left intact. And it kind of makes you wonder about the whole dropping of the atomic bombs. So was the petrifying aftermath of them what's going to be the shock? And that way they can leave all the businesses intact?

1:21:53 for them to be able to continue doing what they were doing. It's just a weird kind of dynamic because we do know that there was a selective bombing campaign in Europe based on who owned what. So huge sums of money are changing hands quickly just before the surrender.

1:22:17 In the first two weeks following the surrender, before the Allies set foot in Japan, the government in Tokyo gushed money in all directions. Records delivered by Japanese journalists in the 70s revealed that their government gave nearly 300 billion yen in war contracts and stockpiled materials so that the conglomerates realized 30%

1:22:44 off their entire war profits in the first four months after the surrender all outstanding military contracts were paid new contracts of all sorts were signed and paid in advance many of them never to be carried out so it's kind of like a money laundering operation going on here um Tanaka

1:23:06 who eventually goes on to be the prime minister, was given a multi-million dollar contract to move piston ring factories to Korea and was paid in full knowing the work was never going to be done. That's called money laundering. Tanaka was allowed to participate in a feeding frenzy in which the government threw money at well-placed individuals to get it out of the banks and into hiding. Tanaka was paid in script.

1:23:35 but he was told to fly immediately to Korea where a Japanese bank would swap it for gold bullion. He did this and brought the gold back to Japan aboard a Navy vessel. Once the Allies arrived and it became evident that they were not really interested in what was going on under their nose, the government money continued. Let's see. One of the authors said something in the neighborhood of 300 million tons of goods, diamonds, gold,

1:24:07 steel, rubber chemicals, oil, salt, drugs, titanium, valued at over 20 billion dollars in 1945 U.S. dollars or 200 billion in present value. The Allies themselves turned over 100 billion yen in stockpiles to the Japanese government. Clothing, food, medicine, distribution to the civilian population. Instead, these goods

1:24:35 They were intended for the civilian population. Instead, these goods vanished into the black market where gangsters made fortunes of selling them. Stocks of opium, heroin, morphine were among the medicines that also disappeared.

1:24:52 The other author noted that at the war's end, there was $264 billion in private bank accounts, much of which was hastily turned into goods through trade in the black market. These figures did not include any of the golden lily loot or the profit derived from heroin trafficking, which was about $3 billion a year. In the immediate wake of defeat, a great many individuals at the highest levels

1:25:20 displayed no concern at all for the good of society. They concentrated instead on enriching themselves and basically money laundering all of the money that they had in the system. Most ordinary Japanese worked two jobs to earn enough to buy a potato for a day. During the same period, Haruhito was earning $50 million a year just on interest in one Swiss bank account.

1:25:48 Washington told the world again and again that Japan was bankrupt, that their industries was destroyed, so Tokyo absolutely could not pay any compensation to the war veterans. The most enthusiastic user of wartime slave labor in Japan was Mitsui, Mitsubishi, and Sumitomo, S-U-M-I-T-O-M-O.

1:26:15 More than 100,000 Allied prisoners and internees became slave laborers in wretched conditions in their mines, steel plants, construction sites, factories in Japan and several other countries that they occupied at the time. Many died. Others were crippled. None of them were ever paid compensation. Most of the capital amassed

1:26:43 during Japan's colonial expansion from 1895 to 1945, survived in the American-occupied areas. The wartime elites followed the lead of their sovereign and devoted themselves to obscuring the wartime deeds. Strangely, nowhere in the official record of the U.S. occupation so far declassified is there any tally of Japan's national gold reserves. Plundered art

1:27:12 cultural objects, looted religious artifacts, personal jewelry, heirlooms, no tally of what was stolen from the safe deposit boxes, put in family burial vaults, stolen from the vaults, and from imperial tombs. It would make a mockery of the 1951 peace treaty of saying that they were broke.

1:27:37 if such an accounting was ever made available. But we know from the testimony of the one prince that had the little aid boy that went around with him everywhere, that there was an exact accounting of every single penny that they had all written down. And we'll get to that. John Foster Dulles manipulated the allies and

1:28:07 In Britain's first draft, Clause 39 read of the treaty that Japan shall pay reparations in the amount of 60 million in monetary gold over a period of three years. That, of course, then gets deleted out. And there's some other negotiations here. But the bottom line is all of the stuff that would have held them accountable got deleted from the treaty.

1:28:33 The British Treasury was not very happy with Washington as a result of them saying that Japan's had no money. They were quoted as saying, regard the payment of Japan's gold pot reparations as one of the points on which it's essential for us to be firm. So by April 1951, Dulles had a chance to react and is quoted as saying,

1:29:03 to modify our attitude so that we can agree with the U.S. and the gold can remain in Japan. Hold on, wait a minute. Oh, so the British Foreign Office asked for the authority to do that. It is now quite clear that even if we could get the gold away from the Japanese, and agreement on this is by no means certain, that there's no practical way of our obtaining our share of it.

1:29:35 The Britain's firm position was caving in under American pressure. The official British record goes on to say that they view the United States and the Japanese was that the gold should be left in Japan as an addition to foreign exchange resources to basically help her with recovery. But that's garbage. So it's more likely.

1:30:04 that Britain was holding out to get their share of some backdoor part of this gold fund. In the end, Britain capitulated and said, we agree that gold should not be mentioned in the treaty. So they most likely got their payoff. We know that from high-level CIA sources, that Britain's biggest financiers participated in setting up the Black Eagle Trust, which was the Nazis' part of it.

1:30:35 Numerous documents in the author's CD that they have all of the proof of this stuff that they are using to document this book in says that large quantities of gold bullion recovered by Santa Romana ended up in the big trading houses in the city of London. Bingo. They were just holding out for their cut.

1:31:01 In the final form, the 1951 peace treaty tried to prohibit any further efforts by private individuals to claim reparations. The treaty did provide limited recourse for a tiny group of businessmen and diplomats, like U.S. Ambassador Joseph Grew, who could recover personal possessions and property forfeited when they were trapped in Japan. If applicants failed to qualify within a tight deadline,

1:31:27 Basically, they forfeited all of their stuff to Japan. The treaty stated, except for otherwise provided in the present treaty, the allied powers waive all reparation claims of the other claims of the allied powers and their nationals arising out of any action by Japan. But it did say that should anybody ever be awarded.

1:31:58 reparations that everybody else had the ability to go in and ask for that as well. And one of the companies, and I believe it was England actually did after a long time do that, but the United States still will not allow anybody in the United States to do that. And of course we know that Germany set up the fund in 2000.

1:32:27 It was like a $5 billion fund to compensate slave laborers from the European sector. So also one last point. It is interesting during this time that Ambassador Foley's wife, so Ambassador Foley was involved in, let's see, a few months earlier, Clinton's ambassador to Japan was Thomas Foley.

1:32:59 So in 2000, um, the, uh, is when all of this stuff was coming up in Germany. So Thomas Foley is the ambassador in Japan and he basically rejected claims, um, of Jap, Japan's victims saying the peace treaty, um, basically put aside all these claims. Um, quote, one does.

1:33:31 wonder why all of this is taking place some 50 years after the war. All claims from World War II, including claims from nationals in the U.S. arising from actions taken by Japan, have already been settled. What was not said at the time is that Ambassador Foley's wife was a very high paid consultant to Sumitomo, one of the three companies that had slave labor camps.

1:34:01 Foley's denial of victim's right to sue was reinforced over and over by his deputy chief of mission, a guy by the name of Christopher Lafleur, L-A-F-L-E-U-R. And why not? Lafleur was the son-in-law of Kichi, K-I-I-C-H-I, one of the Japanese who took part in the secret negotiations.

1:34:31 with John Foster Dulles. So these people are basically, and he also was that Kichi guy was also involved in the M Fund. So these are the guys, they're like the Japanese watchdogs and screw everybody else. So I think that's just crazy, crazy crap. So that brings us to chapter nine. We will move on to.

1:35:01 There on Tuesday night, it's called Heart of Darkness, as if it could get any darker than it already is. But it does. Because, you know, every time something like that happens, it's kind of like hold my beer. I got something even worse. So let me go back through the comments real quick. Oh, gosh, I love you guys to death. Look at all of y'all. I love the fact that y'all communicate with each other here.

1:35:29 and, um, are sharing so much information. Um, absolutely love it. Um, so let's say we've got Missouri, we've got, um, redneck shark, um, brick layer. Love that. Um, what area, let's see, twin cities. Uh, this evil goes deep.

1:36:03 You're right. It does. So I will tell y'all that, um, some of my best friends live in Southern Minnesota and their daughter is actually living with us right now, going to a university down here in central Florida, love Minnesota. Um, and let's see, I live in Blaine when I retired from the army. Love that. Um,

1:36:33 We have to get the Colonel to interview on Red Pill 78. Tell him I'm there. You know, I've already been on a couple of the different Badlands shows. Love those guys over there. And I actually met Red Pill 78. I will probably be seeing him next weekend. We do have a Badlands fan club in Florida. And he and Stormy Patriot Joe.

1:37:01 and can con and Brian Cates and I all go. Um, and there was last time we had about 35 people. Um, we did it about a month and a half ago. It was a lot of fun. Um, so, uh, let's see what else Zach would be a great interview with a Colonel. Yep. So I already have, um, uh, his information. Um,

1:37:35 And I can definitely talk to him about that. I have no problem doing that because everybody needs to know about Operation Gladio. Let's see. Red Pill News. Great platform. Yeah. Minnesota. You need to go on his platform and tell him to invite me. Just kidding. Let's see what else we got here. People in Kansas. Evacuation orders.

1:38:17 Oh, a wildfire. I had not even heard that. Donnie Vision, thank you for bringing that up. Yeah, definitely need to keep those people in your prayers. Let's see. Tactical civics can educate us about our constitution. That's a good recommendation. Thanks for putting that in there. And what else we got? Should be paranoid. Nah, we're not paranoid.

1:39:01 I volunteer to be moderator. I already do it for a bunch of other channels. Moderating on Rumble is a complex subject, but it mostly involves being more of a producer, boot the bots, promote the channel, keep the host on track. Well, I guess we need to talk about that. I don't know that I have a big enough channel to do that, but I'm certainly open to it.

1:39:32 Um, let's see. Yeah. Y'all are going to love the, um, show that alpha and I, we just recorded it a couple hours ago for this Wednesday night. I think you'll all, um, really like that. Um, okay. Well, I'm glad Lucy was here for most of the, um, she can come back and catch up. Let's see what else we got. Stingray. I love your thought.

1:40:10 Joe Biden is more confused than Michelle Obama's gynecologist. That's hilarious. Oh, and I see Bridget's here and Tara. Let's see what else. Yeah, I'm not buying into all the hope, the craziness about the solar eclipse. People are like off the charts.

1:40:36 I know Alpha was going to do a show tonight, live stream about all the different theories that are out there. It's just crazy. All right. What else we got? Thank you again for everybody that contributed. I really appreciate it. I have a separate savings account for books. It's funny because just about every.

1:41:00 uh package that comes to us from amazon is books and my husband will come in and throw it on the table hey you have some more books even when it's not books it's a joke i buy books all the time um just so that i can screen them for having um them to present to you guys so we can keep all this on track um all right what else we got on here uh y'all talking about your class graduations everything i love it

1:41:36 Where are the Gladio glasses modeled after Boone's glasses? So I didn't realize that Boone Cutler wore those glasses. We definitely need to get a 3D printer and print me up some Gladio glasses. And my cousin up in Indiana does have a 3D printer. So I'm going to have to figure this out because I definitely need my Gladio glasses. We need a t-shirt.

1:42:05 Um, and yeah, you're right. Uh, trauma mama, I have bought, um, several books from a books. Um, most of the books that I've been buying recently aren't available a lot of places, um, because they're a very unique to this subject and they're very hard to track down. And they're also very expensive because a lot of them are out of print. Um, and

1:42:32 While you can get them on archive.org, I don't feel like I can, it takes me way too long to prep to do that. Because basically what I do for prepping is I write in the margins of the books, the additional research that I do. So just so that you guys know how much effort we put into this. The book I read all the way through.

1:42:58 As I'm reading, I highlight, I circle all of the names and companies because I always go back and do more research into them. If I find anything in addition to the person that's relevant to the story or the company, I write in all of the margins all over the books, which drives my daughter crazy. I don't care. I prefer to have hardback books because I find them easier to...

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Operation Gladio operated_in Japan host_asserted ▶ 0:41

“pillaging of Asia by Japan. And now we're going to get into where I believe Operation Gladio lays over the top of the operations in the Asian theater, almost in an identical fashion as they did in Eur…”

Douglas MacArthur controlled Japan documented ▶ 1:14

“Let me adjust my screen a little bit and we're going to jump right in. So basically it's the late 1940s and World War II is over. MacArthur moves into Japan and he's going to basically be in charge of…”

Simoyama Sadanori headed Japanese National Railroad documented ▶ 2:23

“12.20 a.m. So basically that was the only way they were able to identify the time of death. The victim was a 49-year-old man. His name was Simoyama Sadanori. S-A-D-A-N-O-R-I. He happened to be the pre…”

Simoyama Sadanori did_business_with Yakuza host_asserted ▶ 3:26

“were on his payroll in return for kickbacks to basically their, there's a name in Japan that's, it's spelled Y-A-K-U-Z-A, Yakuza. And they're kind of a mixture of, it's like a mafia family. That's pro…”

Douglas MacArthur controlled Japanese Communist Party host_asserted ▶ 4:01

“By the time his murder made the newspaper, which all of the media at this time is controlled by General MacArthur, there is no free press in Japan right now. And it is actually blamed on the Japanese …”

United States occupied Japan documented ▶ 5:39

“under the watchful eyes of the United States military, which is now occupying Japan. Sounds a little fishy to me. But remember, the whole Operation Gladio is you blame everything on the communists. So…”

Douglas MacArthur framed Japanese Communist Party host_asserted ▶ 7:13

“And this is like 1950, when the workers were exonerated and paid damages by the government for having been framed. Now, keep in mind, there's no Japanese government. This is MacArthur's troops that la…”

United States colluded_with Japan host_asserted ▶ 8:22

“Well, the actual occupation from 1945 on. All of it's classified. Shimoyama's corpse is a metaphor for many victims of a curious collusion between Washington and Tokyo during the six-year occupation. …”

United States funded Japan host_asserted ▶ 9:57

“need to account for any of it. This is all black ops gold, black ops money for black ops operations. America set up a secret political action fund in Japan that were used to influence the imperial fam…”

Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) funded Yoshio Kodama book_quoted ▶ 11:29

“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 fund…”

United States backed Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) book_quoted ▶ 11:29

CIA appropriated Ethiopia host_asserted ▶ 18:44

“Ray and boys, thank you for your contribution and support. It'll buy me more books. Okay, so we have in post-war Italy, CIA agent James Jesus Angleton recovered Ethiopian treasure plundered by Mussoli…”

CIA financed_via Italy host_asserted ▶ 19:14

“It was appropriated by the CIA and used to finance pro-American and anti-communist candidates in Italy in 1948 elections. But again, I'm using the author's terms. These are not anti-communist candidat…”

Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for CIA host_asserted ▶ 20:17

“The Vatican Bank in 1942 was set up, which corresponds with the same date in 1942, not like on the date, but the year, in Germany that the werewolves was set up, the werewolf units. So keep that in mi…”

Ray Cline claimed Institute for the Works of Religion book_quoted ▶ 20:48

“that money was laundered through the Vatican Bank until it got so immense that they had to start setting up other banks to use. So the Vatican Bank sheltered Harajito's assets and Nazi assets during t…”

CIA controlled Gestapo host_asserted ▶ 21:50

“Appreciate the contribution. By the 1960s, Angleton was back in Washington running the counterintelligence staff of the CIA. The Gestapo, which had its own very, very secret slush fund that was also n…”

United States intervened_in Greece host_asserted ▶ 23:19

“U.S. covert intervention occurred in Greece when Britain gave notice that her empty treasury compelled her to end all financial and military aid to the eastern end of the Mediterranean. She basically …”

United States intervened_in Turkey host_asserted ▶ 23:46

“But as soon as she got kicked out, the U.S. tried to come back in. Greece was thrown into a civil war and Turkey was viewed as being vulnerable as well. Secretary of State Dean Atkinson called the rot…”

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted ▶ 27:16

“trick squad was Frank Wisner, W-I-S-N-E-R. He had essentially a free hand in Asia. CIA director Alan Dulles knew little about Asia. He spent his wartime in Europe. So he gave that part of the world ba…”

Chiang Kai-shek moved_to Burma host_asserted ▶ 29:09

“that is chinese and he lived in china dealt drugs in china um basically to the west uh when mal takes over he gets kicked out and he and his army which is the kmt she's in her mobile home redneck hey …”

Chiang Kai-shek trafficked Formosa host_asserted ▶ 29:33

“The Burmese government gets tired of being in the crosshairs with all of the killing of their citizens and stuff by the gangs affiliated with the drugs and the CIA's glommed all over them. So they kic…”

Chiang Kai-shek moved_to Formosa host_asserted ▶ 29:33

Frank Wisner funded CIA host_asserted ▶ 32:18

“except for the few they hung for show. They just threw the rest of them all over the world. They went as far as Malaysia, literally all over the world. And so Wisner funded his covert teams initially …”

Frank Wisner recruited William J. Lansdale host_asserted ▶ 33:19

“His appropriated budget was $84 million. How big was his unofficial budget? Because that $84 million isn't going to buy you a whole lot based on what he was doing. So he hires a guy by the name of Des…”

Frank Wisner recruited Desmond Fitzgerald host_asserted ▶ 33:19

William J. Lansdale assassinated Napoleon Valianio host_asserted ▶ 33:49

“Thailand, Indonesia, and also in the Philippines. Because Lansdell, if you remember in the former chapter, was the guy that beheaded Napoleon Valianio. So they were all set to carry out assassinations…”

M-Fund financed_via Imperial Army of Japan host_asserted ▶ 36:09

“General MacArthur was the key figure in setting up a thing called the M Fund, like M as in MacArthur, Fund. MacArthur realized, as General Marshall did in Europe, that a substantial sum of money would…”

Douglas MacArthur founded M-Fund host_asserted ▶ 36:09

Yoshio Kodama did_business_with Douglas MacArthur book_quoted ▶ 40:35

“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 incl…”

M-Fund funded Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 40:35

Yoshio Kodama trafficked Japan book_quoted ▶ 43:32

“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 Kor…”

Chiang Kai-shek trafficked Formosa book_quoted ▶ 43:32

Chiang Kai-shek succeeded Tai Li book_quoted ▶ 44:33

“Two of the three major players soon died. So Nationalist China General Tai Li was assassinated in a plane crash, and Tai Li is who Chiang replaced. The Shanghai godfather, Yat-Shing,…”

Chiang Kai-shek trafficked Golden Triangle book_quoted ▶ 45:58

“He wasn't the drug lord. The drug lord was Kodama and Chiang. So the author goes on to say, in truth, it was dominated by Kodama in Japan and General Chiang through the KMT army that he ran based in t…”

M-Fund named_after William Frederick Marquat book_quoted ▶ 48:28

“was named after General William Frederick Marquat, M-A-R-Q-U-A-T, chief of the economic and scientific section. In theory, Marquat headed America's program to punish and reform Japanese businesses tha…”

William Frederick Marquat headed M-Fund book_quoted ▶ 48:28

William Frederick Marquat member_of Douglas MacArthur book_quoted ▶ 49:56

“head coordinator of like a fascist kind of coordination among businesses. And little has been written about Marquat, who usually is portrayed as an amicable nincompoop. Their words, not mine. Unfit fo…”

United States covered_up Unit 731 book_quoted ▶ 51:24

“Unit 731, moving most of the scientists, personnel, and documents to the U.S. Military Research Lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland. All information about its activities, including the biological warfare at…”

M-Fund funded Japan book_quoted ▶ 51:53

“All of 731's records were held by the U.S. government and still classified as top secret. The M Fund was created to buy elections in Japan, but elsewhere as well, so that they could ensure the anti-co…”

Charles Willoughby headed M-Fund book_quoted ▶ 54:52

“All my life, I've heard of this thing called the Yoshida Fund. I think that's the same thing as the M Fund, unquote. So the author actually says that there was two separate funds, the M Fund and the Y…”

Charles Willoughby did_business_with Yoshio Kodama book_quoted ▶ 55:28

“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, do…”

Yatsuya Fund funded Korea book_quoted ▶ 56:54

“I was just fascinated reading through this book at the similarities to what was happening in Europe and then realized as I got about halfway through this book, this is Operation Gladio, i.e. the Pacif…”

Cannon Agency funded_by Charles Willoughby book_quoted ▶ 58:31

“that was ran by an American by the name of Ted Lewin, L-E-W-I-N, who was a pal of Kadama, funded by the Cannon Agency, which was Willoughby's dirtiest and wettest operation in Japan. So evidently, Can…”

Jack Cannon headed Cannon Agency book_quoted ▶ 58:31

Jack Cannon did_business_with Mahachi book_quoted ▶ 59:03

“excuse me, J.Y. Cannon. This was the military version of Murder, Inc., a death squad. Jack Cannon arranged for the beatings and killings of student leaders, liberals, leftists, socialists, union leade…”

Jack Cannon member_of Counterintelligence Corps book_quoted ▶ 59:31

“Kodama's Korean lieutenant who beheaded an ethnic Korean Yakuza leader. Jack Cannon initially worked for the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps, the CIC, which are basically the same guys that were d…”

Jack Cannon assassinated Semiyama book_quoted ▶ 1:00:27

“that would have chilled the blood of most Americans. He is thought to have been behind the kidnapping of a prominent writer by the name of K.A.J.I. Also attributed to him is the torture, dismemberment…”

Charles Willoughby recruited KATOH book_quoted ▶ 1:01:27

“bypassed cannon and brought in a murder squad called KATOH, the acronym for five Japanese army officers who did surgical assassinations for money. Willoughby was judged by the U.S. Army contemporaries…”

Joseph Keenan headed Kenan Fund book_quoted ▶ 1:01:57

“The Keenan Fund, by contrast, was controlled by a civilian by the name of Joseph Keenan, another MacArthur's intimate who was chief prosecutor in the Tokyo war crimes trials. Previously, Keenan had be…”

Joseph Keenan member_of Douglas MacArthur book_quoted ▶ 1:01:57

Tanaka Takeyoshi member_of Joseph Keenan book_quoted ▶ 1:02:29

“He had gotten a reputation as a gangbuster and also a heavy drinker. He's going to fit right in. So his appointment as the chief war crimes prosecutor in Tokyo was criticized because he wasn't even co…”

Kenan Fund funded Tokyo War Crimes Tribunals book_quoted ▶ 1:04:36

“Unlike the broad mandates of the M Fund and the Yosutia Fund, the Kenan Fund had a very narrow and specific function. It was going to be used to bribe witnesses at the war crime trials, to grease the …”

Douglas MacArthur covered_up Hirohito book_quoted ▶ 1:06:03

“F-E-L-L-E-R-S, revealed that he personally suborned witnesses, got them to falsely testify, and make sure that Emperor Haruhito was not brought to trial. MacArthur sent secret telegrams to Eisenhower …”

Douglas MacArthur did_business_with Herbert Hoover book_quoted ▶ 1:06:28

“No specific or tangible evidence has been uncovered with regard to the emperor's exact activities, which might connect him in varying degrees with the political decisions of the Japanese empire during…”

Kenan Fund paid Admiral Yone book_quoted ▶ 1:06:58

“to guarantee that Haruhito would escape punishment of any kind and that General Tojo would falsify his testimony to take all responsibility for the attack on Pearl Harbor. Intermediaries, including Ad…”

Admiral Yone did_business_with Hideki Tojo book_quoted ▶ 1:06:58

Douglas MacArthur assassinated Prince Konoe book_quoted ▶ 1:08:54

“They said he would not submit to the indignity of a trial and the official ruling was suicide. But it appears to have been one of the first post-war episodes of assisted suicide. That's what this auth…”

Kenan Fund funded Unit 731 book_quoted ▶ 1:09:30

“Crucial witnesses also died conveniently before the trials began of the two princes that were responsible for many of the wartime atrocities. And several of their aides developed heart trouble and die…”

Charles Willoughby covered_up Japan book_quoted ▶ 1:10:29

“Even men who had been victims of the medical experimentation was forced to take this oath. At the time, they were told it was their patriotic duty to remain silent. Today, they realize that they were …”

Yoshio Kodama member_of Charles Willoughby book_quoted ▶ 1:10:56

“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 mass…”

Seishiro Itagaki member_of Charles Willoughby book_quoted ▶ 1:10:56

Ivy Li funded Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) book_quoted ▶ 1:13:21

“But, you know, the emperor was fine. And so were all the princes that blew up all those caves and buried all those people alive. They're all fine, too. Kadama provided funds from his own deep pocket t…”

Charles Willoughby appointed Harvey Fukuda book_quoted ▶ 1:14:52

“Fukuta, which was a publisher in Salt Lake City. Harvey Fukuta spent the war broadcasting anti-Japanese radio propaganda. In post-war Tokyo, he was chosen by Willoughby to be Kodama's full-time press …”

Ivy Li funded Japan PR book_quoted ▶ 1:15:22

“Their collaboration was so successful that Feduta was rewarded with his own CIA proprietary company, which was called Japan PR. So another front company. And Kodama was the source of the supplemental …”

Harvey Fukuda did_business_with Eugene Dolman book_quoted ▶ 1:15:52

“as the interpreter between Kodama and Americans in basically all aspects of what happened in the aftermath of the war. When America ran short of tungsten, Kodama offered to sell some of the supply tha…”

Ivy Li paid Lockheed book_quoted ▶ 1:16:22

“Paduta had set up the original meeting between Kodoma and Lockheed Aircraft Executives when Kodoma agreed to funnel bribes to induce the Japanese government officials to buy Lockheed airplanes. This c…”

Harvey Fukuda did_business_with Lockheed book_quoted ▶ 1:16:22

Ivy Li did_business_with John Foster Dulles book_quoted ▶ 1:17:55

“Moscow treated, tested its own atomic bomb. In 49, China basically came into being as a communist entity. Eight months later, the Korean War broke out, which is nothing like what we've been told. And …”

Makai member_of John Foster Dulles book_quoted ▶ 1:18:22

“to negotiations in Seoul. The Dulles party included Kodama's protege, Makai, who was the boss of the Korean Yakuza in Japan. And there was an effort to do a FOIA on what Kodama and Machi did during th…”

Ivy Li did_business_with Douglas MacArthur book_quoted ▶ 1:18:52

“But none of it has ever been disclosed. Another national security secret. MacArthur's Memorial Archive, we discovered a personal letter from Kodoma to General MacArthur offering to provide thousands o…”

John Foster Dulles did_business_with Dean Acheson book_quoted ▶ 1:19:23

“Said the offer was accepted and these men joined the Allied forces on the peninsula. And again, we're going to have a whole different show on that. That's a crazy story. Peace treaty negotiations with…”

Ivy Li did_business_with John Foster Dulles book_quoted ▶ 1:19:52

“the guy we quoted earlier. And let's see. Kodoma also held private talks with Dulles to discuss the terms. Many countries were making demands for reparations, but Atkinson said he made it clear to oth…”

Tanaka Takeyoshi laundered_money_for Japan book_quoted ▶ 1:23:06

“who eventually goes on to be the prime minister, was given a multi-million dollar contract to move piston ring factories to Korea and was paid in full knowing the work was never going to be done. That…”

Japan trafficked United States book_quoted ▶ 1:24:35

“They were intended for the civilian population. Instead, these goods vanished into the black market where gangsters made fortunes of selling them. Stocks of opium, heroin, morphine were among the medi…”

Mitsui did_business_with Japan book_quoted ▶ 1:25:48

“Washington told the world again and again that Japan was bankrupt, that their industries was destroyed, so Tokyo absolutely could not pay any compensation to the war veterans. The most enthusiastic us…”

Mitsubishi did_business_with Japan book_quoted ▶ 1:25:48

Sumitomo did_business_with Japan book_quoted ▶ 1:25:48

United Kingdom funded Black Eagle Trust book_quoted ▶ 1:30:04

“that Britain was holding out to get their share of some backdoor part of this gold fund. In the end, Britain capitulated and said, we agree that gold should not be mentioned in the treaty. So they mos…”

Santa Romana did_business_with United Kingdom book_quoted ▶ 1:30:35

“Numerous documents in the author's CD that they have all of the proof of this stuff that they are using to document this book in says that large quantities of gold bullion recovered by Santa Romana en…”

Thomas Foley did_business_with Sumitomo book_quoted ▶ 1:33:31

“wonder why all of this is taking place some 50 years after the war. All claims from World War II, including claims from nationals in the U.S. arising from actions taken by Japan, have already been set…”

Christopher Lasch relationship_with Nobusuke Kishi book_quoted ▶ 1:34:01

“Foley's denial of victim's right to sue was reinforced over and over by his deputy chief of mission, a guy by the name of Christopher Lafleur, L-A-F-L-E-U-R. And why not? Lafleur was the son-in-law of…”

Nobusuke Kishi did_business_with John Foster Dulles book_quoted ▶ 1:34:01