 card number 8 my lovable fascist my lovable fascist Yakuza in the background let's see where this takes us card number 8 Wilbury and the Yakuza less well known than the CIA collusion with Corsican gangsters in France and the U.S. is the U.S. military's use of Yakuza gangs in Japan the Japanese equivalent of the Italian mafia Yakuza syndicates have controlled the rackets in Japan since the early 1900s long allied with the ultra nationalist right Yakuza thugs provide the muscle which suppressed the left and kept fascists in power during World War two after the war Japan was occupied by the allies under supreme command for the allied powers general Douglas MacArthur in 1946 MacArthur's G2 intelligence intelligence chief major general Charles Wilbury began paying Yakuza criminals to break communist legs leg strikes and infiltrate labor unions born out of wit within bench in Germany and called my beloved fascist by MacArthur Wilbury recruited Japan's former chief of military intelligence Lieutenant general says Cizu Arizu to help run his covert operations and succeeded in freeing many class a war criminals one of these men Yoshio Kodama served as a liaison between G2 and Yakuza gangs and later worked for the CIA for 25 years what the course seconds be what the course seconds be became to the heroin trade that Yakuza became to the Asian and family and fed amine market and monopoly they still hold and fed amines speed have been popular in Japan since World War two when the most well-known military users of and fed amines were kamikaze pilots today Yakuza have allied with Chinese triads in Hong Kong and Taiwan in global sales of heroin and speed together they now market a smokable and fed amine called ice common in Hawaii but still rare in the US mainland ice is cheaper and more potent than crack cocaine and could become the next drug epidemic car number eight my lovable fascist serious dose of history wow serious dose of history