The History of Terrorism
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Governors of the East India Company
1600-1874 East India Company (EIC, HEIC or the John Company)
East India Company - Goods Sold
The Opium/Drug Trade
Opium
Parents
The Opium/Drug Trade
Children
...Chinese first became opium addicts, then graduated to morphine and then to heroin.
1793 Charter Act of 1793
1858 Treaty of Tientsin
1874-1898 ...Then heroin first refined from opium in 1874 by chemists at Bayer Pharmaceutical in Germany and launched by Bayer as a patent medicine in 1898 showed promise as a treatment for morphine addicts. ...
1930?-1933? ...By the early 1930s opium was taking a backseat to its more powerful products morphine and heroin. The evolution was gradual. ...
1930s Mitsui processed Manchurian opium into heroin in the 1930s
1932 Aristotle Onassis was selling Turkish tobacco known as opium in Argentine. He worked out a deal with Joseph Kennedy Sr and Eugene Meyer and Meyer Lansky. They imported bootleg liquor in the United States.
1937 The Japanese and Kuomintang tranformed manchuria and are responsible for 90% of the world's illegal narcotics and turned emperor Puyi into an addict.
1942 Once the OSS was set up Donovan became highly involved with opium and heroin.
1942-1945 Operation Underworld
1967 Opium War
1967-1988 In 1967, Khun Sa became an opium warlard, today he controls 80% of the world production.
2016 The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World (book)
2021 Corbett Report - Episode 404 - A Brief History of Hopium
2021 Military - The US Military Couldn't Stop the Heroin Trade from Funding the Taliban. But Synthetic Opioid Producers Might.
90% of world supply of heroin comes from Afghanistan
Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN)
Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia)
History of opium
Khun Sa ("Opium King")
Narcotics
Norman (poppy)
Opioid epidemic
Opium by country
Opium traders
Puyi
The firm focused on Opium and by the 1820s, Cushing was known as the most influential of all the foreigners in Canton, having struck up a close relationship with the merchant Houqua, who at his death in 1843 was said to be the richest man in the world.
Together they moved opium and heroin out of the Golden Triangle, bypassing old French channels of the Unione Corse which had gone through Laos and Vietnam.