NYT-“Gold Bars and Tokyo Apartments: How Money Is Flowing Out of China.” It ain’t anywhere near like 1948.
Gold Rush, Shanghai, also known by other titles like Gold Rush. The Last Days of Kuomintang, Shanghai, is a black and white photograph taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1948.[1]
History and description
Cartier-Bresson went to China in December 1948, on assignment for Life magazine, initially for a short trip, but ended up staying for a much longer time, as he documented the historical events and the general environment as the Kuomintang government fell while the Chinese Communist Party was about to seize power and to proclaim what would become the People's Republic of China, in 1949.[2]
This is one of the most famous pictures out of the large amount that he took during this period. It was taken in Shanghai, on 23 December 1948, and documents what happened when the currency crashed and the Kuomintang decided to distribute 14 grams of gold by person. This resulted in thousands of people who waited in line to trade the gold for money, often suffocating to the point of death.[3]
The picture shows one of these events, it was entirely spontaneous, despite what might appear as a choreographed composition, and depicts a crowd of desperate customers, both men and women, pressing themselves as they try anxiously to reach the bank where they want to sell their gold. Cartier-Bresson waited carefully for the dramatic shape to take place and then captured it for posterity.[2][4]
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"French Connection" Heroin.
France was broke & couldn't finance its colonial war in Vietnam. The French Foreign Legion financed its Vietnam War by selling Heroin. The United States basically took over the French Colonial War in Vietnam in 1954.
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade Paperback – May 1, 2003
by Alfred W. McCoy (Author)
Daniel Joseph was the star witness in 32 arrests. Richard Legree of Coatesville PA was one of the 32 people arrested.
Richard Legree was called the “Biggest drug pusher in Chester County” by Bill Lamb.
Mr. Legree began serving his sentence at Graterford Prison. All of Chester County District Attorney Bill Lamb’s prosecution fell apart when Joseph was murdered while protected by federal marshals.
Informant’s Death Probed Reading Eagle June 23, 1977
“The shroud of mystery that surrounded the life of Reading drug informant Daniel Joseph shows no signs of lifting now that he is dead.
Joseph, also known as Danny Joe and Richard Ledwith, formerly of the Park Apartments, Eckert Avenue and Clymer Street was found dead Monday in a Richmond Va., apartment house where he was being housed by U.S. Marshals under the Federal Witness Protection Program.
The protective measures were deemed necessary, according to Chester County Dis. Atty. William H. Lamb because of threats against Joseph’s life ally friends of two narcotic agents he was scheduled to testify against and by friends of some of the 40 people arrested in April 1976 raids which resulted from his undercover work.
Dist. Atty. Lamb has charged that some of the threats came from unidentified members of the Reading Bureau of Police.
Police Chief Benard J. Dobinski this morning reiterated his displeasure with the allegation and again challenged the Chester County district attorney coproduce evidence of the charges.
“As far as I am concerned, until he comes to me with evidence to substantiate the charges I will continue to view them as asinine,” the chief said.
Yet the suspicious death of the informer, whose elusiveness led to the prosecution of Lawrence Palmer and Gordon Roberts, two Reading based agents with the state Bureau of Drug Control for withholding his whereabouts from Chester officials, was given rise to a new round of threat allegations.
Joesph, who was given the new identity of Jay Chapman by his federal watchdogs, was found dead in his LaMancha Appartment in Richmond, a syringe lying next to his body, Dist. Atty. Lamb reported.
According to Dist. Atty. Lamb, Joseph had been a heavy drug user for about five years but recently told hime that he was off heroin for about six months and was looking for a job.
A spokesman for the Richmond medical examiner’s office said an autopey has been completed buy no cause of death has been established pending additional lab work.
“It’s too early right now to speculate on the cause,” Dist. Atty. Lamb said, but we can’t rule out the possibility of murder, especially after the threats he received.”
Dist. Atty.Lamb had intended to use the witness to testify in the trial of Palmer and Robert but that testimony was made unnecessary by the drug agents’ guilty plea to one count of obstructing justice. Palmer and Roberts were sentenced to 23-months probation.
Dist. Atty. Lamb said his testimony was needed, however, in the trials of about 40 drug suspects arrested in the April 1976 raids and scheduled for trial in two weeks.
He sais Joseph’s death “ will have a material affect on around 15 to 20 cases still pending.
“We stand a very distinct possibility of losing them…” he said
Federal officials probing the death remained mum on the details, but promised full disclosure when circumstances permit.
According to Dist. Atty. Lamb, Joseph was not guarded around the clock by the U.S. marshals.
The last time the officials saw Joseph alive, he said, was on Thursday.
The district attorney said he asked David Marston, U.S. attorney for the eastern Pennsylvania, to investigate the death.”
Frank Lucas went direct to the Kuomintang in Laos. High grade white heroin transported by the U.S. Air Force some of it in fake bottoms of caskets of the dead returning from Vietnam.
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