Thanks to a combination of high quality, availability, and minimal legal encumbrances, American firearms are sought and acquired by the Japanese. The distributors, and in this case the customers, of the product are primarily the yakuza. Americans have competition from various foreign producers, but they are by far the yakuza's largest single source of weaponry - providing one-third of all handguns seized between 1994 and 1998. This is twice the amount provided by the nearest rival source, China.
The United States is, in effect, arming the Japanese underworld.
Aum embarked on an extraordinary, six-year crime spree. The cult's law breaking knew no bounds: massive consumer fraud, land fraud, medical malpractice, extortion, drug dealing, firearms and explosives violations, manufacture of biological and chemical weapons, kidnapping, murder, and mass murder. Year after year this went on, nearly all of it within seventy miles of Tokyo. The response of Japanese law enforcement is a virtual case study on what not to do in fighting terrorism and organized crime. Leads were missed or
never followed up, witnesses and evidence ignored, and agencies refused to cooperate with each other. No action was taken, until one day Tokyo cops awoke
to find the world's busiest subway attacked with nerve gas at the height of
rush hour.
At regular intervals, for example, police have staged massive crackdowns on the yakuza, hauling in some 30,000 to 50,000 gangsters and associates each year. But while they make for impressive reading, the raids are mostly a form of harassment and, in particular, of publicity.
These raids assume an almost ritual air because most of the gangsters are released in a few days through lack of evidence of criminal acts or because their offenses were minor. The gangs usually receive warning before the huge raids, and that well before authorities arrive on the scene, virtually all contraband is concealed and the highest bosses have gone into hiding.
The raids end with a uniquely Japanese twist: so the police can save face, the gangsters generally leave behind a few guns for the officers to confiscate. In one publicized case in 1995, three police went so far as to buy local yakuza several guns which they could then confiscate.
The CIA was paying Corsican gangsters in France, particularly in the city of Marseille, to disrupt Communist strikes and help break the back of the French Communist Party. As was the case in Japan, much of France lay in ruins. Unemployment was high, wages low, and amid shortages of every kind, the black markets had become a way of life.
As the CIA funneled cash and arms to the French underworld, the Corsicans were put in a powerful enough position to establish Marseilles as the postwar heroin capital of the Western world and to cement a long-term partnership with Mafia drug distributors.
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