Offbeat Oregon: World’s clumsiest drug smugglers also its most audacious, Part 1WRITER'S NOTE: In last month’s Offbeat Oregon column, we explored the unlikely origins and career of Yosuke Matsuoka, the foreign minister of Imperial Japan who was responsible for Japan’s military alliance with Nazi Germany. Based out of Portland, it was probably the most notorious smuggling ship on the West Coast. The risks, in opium smuggling, were much higher. We’ll talk about how things went for the gang after they diversified into opium smuggling in Part II of this article. John teaches at Oregon State University and writes about odd tidbits of Oregon history.