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That no clear line can be drawn between big business and capitalist governments emerges particularly clearly from the Japanese side of the Lockheed saga.
Lockheed's man in Tokyo, Yoshio Kodama, made a name for himself during the Second Impetalist War by his operation of plunder and intelligence gathering in Japanese-occupied China.
After the war (he was imprisoned for a while but never tried for his war crimes) he returned to Japan with vast stores of cash, diamonds and platinum, some of But nothing could be further from the truth.
The CIA had detailed reports of the Lockheed bribes as early as the late 1950s, but somehow 'forgot' to pass them on to the State Department.
It is not surprising that they knew, for Kodama had received US funds for secret political projects in the Far East several times since the end of the war.
In fact in the early 1950s he was paid 150,000 dollars to smuggle tungsten out of China on a Taiwanese warship and deliver it to American authorities in Tokyo.
On that occasion, it seems, the buyers got stung - Kodama claimed that the ship sank en route, but kept the commission.
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