Yoshio Kodama

Kodama Yoshio (Japanese: Shio Koto/echo Yoshio, Romanized: Kodama Yoshio; February 18, 1911 - January 17, 1984), a Japanese right-wing activist, self-proclaimed CIA agent, and consultant to the violent group Inagawa Kai. He served as the leader of the "Kodama Agency" in Shanghai during World War II. After the war, he got rich under the cover of the CIA during the Korean War. He donated money to establish the Liberal Democratic Party. He was the leader of Japan's underworld from the postwar period to the 1970s. He and Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka were both sentenced to death in the Lockheed political donation incident.