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Joseph Tracy brook7 at sover.net
Fri Oct 16 01:01:55 CDT 2009


On Oct 16, 2009, at 2:27 AM, Richard Fiero wrote:

> Joseph Tracy wrote:
>> . . .The  big players in heroin and prostitution at this time are  
>> the Mob, the
>> KMT, and the police and governments that allow it. . . .
>
> "KMT" refers to Kuomintang, the long-time ruling party of Taiwan?

I think that is where P is pointing, not prostitution  as much,  
though there is a connection there and ultimately to the sex trade in  
the Golden Triangle area. The KMT seems to have been a major player  
in Golden triangle heroin production .  I trace some of this in my  
Fang post.



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