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[Joseph Tracy]

On Oct 16, 2009, at 11:34 PM, Richard Fiero wrote:

> Joseph Tracy wrote:
>> . . .
>> Interestingly the KMT was a major player in opium distribution which
>> after after retreating to Taiwan was shifted from Sichuan &Yunnan to
>> Burma where they had a stronghold from fighting Japan In Burma. This
>  . . .
> I think we know that the Kuomintang was fascist, killed 10M people  
> and split to Taiwan with the treasury. Eisenhower referred to  
> Chiang Kai-shek as "cash-my-check." The evidence supporting the  
> assertions in the indicated post is entirely missing.

Sorry. I read it in several sources so assumed it to be reliable. A  
Kuomintang Golden Triangle  search will turn up plenty.  Or  
Kuomintang opium. The CIF(Chinese irregular forces) a breakoff  of  
KMT was also a major player. The trouble with this stuff is that much  
of the information comes from ex CIA, ex trafficers,  ex military and  
writers interested in the great game.  Drugs, the U.S., and Khun Sa   
by Francis W. Belanger;  Opium: A History By Martin Booth

The following passage is from The politics of heroin in Southeast  
Asia ( Harper &Row)
by Alfred W McCoy     -McCoy (born June 8, 1945) is a historian and a  
Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He  
earned his B.A. from Columbia College[1], and his Ph.D in  
Southeastern Asian history from Yale University. The CIA bought up a  
bunch of copies.
"The precipitous collapse of the Nationalist Chinese (Kuomintang, or  
KMT) government in 1949 convinced the Truman administration that it  
had to stem “the southward flow of communism” into Southeast Asia. In  
1950 the Defense Department extended military aid to the French in  
Indochina. In that same year, the CIA began regrouping those remnants  
of the defeated Kuomintang army in the Burmese Shan States for a  
projected invasion of southern China. Although the KMT army was to  
fail in its military operations, it succeeded in monopolizing and  
expanding the Shan States’ opium trade.
… With CIA support, the KMT remained in Burma until 1961, when a  
Burmese army offensive drove them into Laos and Thailand. By this  
time, however, the Kuomintang had already used their control over the  
tribal populations to expand Shan State opium production by almost  
1,000 percent-from less than 40 tons after World War 11 to an  
estimated three hundred to four hundred tons by 1962. From bases in  
northern Thailand the KMT have continued to send huge mule caravans  
into the Shan States to bring out the opium harvest. Today [1972],  
over twenty years after the CIA first began supporting KMT troops in  
the Golden Triangle region, these KMT caravans control almost a third  
of the world’s total illicit opium supply and have a growing share of  
Southeast Asia’s thriving heroin business.


> P has pulled this Chinese trick a couple three times.
> Once in AtD pg 336-339 in Dally's White Slavery acting job. Pg 338  
> "'Mock Duck's boys,' Katie whispered. 'The real article. Not like  
> the play-actors you'll be playing with.'"
> This may have been inspired by Herbert Asbury's "Barbary  
> Coast" (1933 Garden City Publishing) which is essential reading for  
> AtD if one doesn't know that a "deadfall" is an establishment where  
> drinking and gambling take place.
> "Barbary Coast" about San Francisco's Chinatown 1875-1910, pg 166:  
> "Many of the places where opium was smoked, or was supposed to be  
> smoked, were fakes, tourist-shockers conducted by the professional  
> guides to the quarter, who were licensed by the city and were  
> organized as the Chinatown Guides Association.  These abodes of  
> synthetic sin were invariably in dank and dreary cellars, dangerous  
> underground passages.  In many of these dimly lighted ways evil- 
> looking Chinamen, in the employ of the guides, slunk back and  
> forth, carrying knives and hatchets and providing atmosphere and  
> local color. . . . This fancy persisted until the district was  
> destroyed in 1906 [earthquake].  While it lay in ruins, the whole  
> area was carefully explored and mapped. Not a single underground  
> passage was discovered, and few cellars larger or deeper than are  
> commonly found under dwellings and business houses."