Word: ku
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...managed to generate hopeful visions of bodies reaching out to one another across racial lines, from the stories of Brer Rabbit to the 1989 movie Driving Miss Daisy. The Commission on Inter-racial Cooperation was set up here in the 1920s--but at almost exactly the same time, the Ku Klux Klan was reorganized at nearby Stone Mountain...
...followed. And he notes that in several cases whites with ties to racist groups have been convicted and sent to prison. Indeed, last week a Baptist congregation in South Carolina opened a new front against the terrorists by filing a civil damage suit accusing the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of being responsible for torching their church...
With that, the sting was on. According to the 34-page criminal complaint filed in San Francisco's U.S. District Court last week, Hipple helped Ku smuggle in 20,000 machine-gun stands. Ku then told the agent to fax his weapons wish list to Ku's secretary, using code words: "apples" for automatic weapons; "Alpha Kings" for AK-47s; "poppers" for grenades. Later a Florida ATF agent was introduced to Ku as an arms dealer interested in machine guns. Eventually the undercover team negotiated an order for 2,000 AK-47s. They paid Ku and his associates...
...Ku made clear that he was acting as a middleman for Chinese arms dealers, including Robert Ma, head of U.S. sales for Poly Technologies, and Richard Chen, U.S. representative for Norinco. It was Ma, according to last week's complaint, who arranged for shipment of the rifles. They arrived in San Francisco aboard a Chinese freighter on March...
Once the transaction was completed, according to court papers, Ku reported that his contacts at Norinco were eager to continue. Customs agents say Ku offered a variety of larger arms, including surface-to-air missiles that he boasted "could take out a 747." Customs didn't have any more money to spend but delayed making arrests. "We were trying to lure the large business figures [in China] to the States," says Rollin Klink, head of Customs in San Francisco. Officials finally sprung the trap after learning that the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times were...