SMUGGLING TRADE FROM HONG KONG TO COMMUNIST CHINA VIA MACAO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008900230003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 23, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. In Augum t; 1951 two to thre e huncl, rea tvati o f strategU mn t aI inclvAing
steel and. munitions, were being shApped each night to Colonnt China from
Hong Kong ,via Macao? No rubber weAl being shipped.
This trade waebincarriedinTibfk-gf.; oumed by a thhe adqw.vterri5in
Hong Kong,, Members of this pool include P?, 4L, Lobo?1 erue"go1ear.;c0
-and a number of Chinese busines.amen, among whom are owner of the
Central Hotel'. in Macao and the owner of a Hong YoKke,
3. Hong Kong police. ad.officials have been secretly coopl!ra'jng with thia trade
Any attempt to use 'routes other thv, thrive -prearranged results in. a, veil-.
publiciZeid. seizure of the shipment
4? Shipments.. are not made elrectly to CammuMgt China bause, ewing to
difficulties in making remittances, the ahlRperz would. hayt to wait for
their money, Iv...Macao Leto arranges remittances by setting up separate
letters of' credit, Ac.colants are 't td in the Benk (Una or the abine
CcamercW ?Bk in Hong Kong and are transferred to F1'a,ao the fl..ro ef
raivisible, trensferable, irrevocatle, lette:rs of ,oledlt Yith the pool.it
;virtual cotArol oT financing transactions and typarting goods, an;; persoa
atteppting to work autside.the pOO1 meets with itavperable di o
that hi this trade more good now reach CommnnAst China
than were carried- by .the Isbrandtsen shpft whete. they operate& into Shanghai.
The. Tsbrandteen trade was estimated at 20,000 tons a purr zn,CL enabled the
Coimuniete to boast that they et their promise to give the city econOmic
secarityo. .
.An indidation.or the value of this trade is. the ramor that- an Americen
bas1W8man in -ffoug ItOmg. Tint offered US $2,000 merely for the name of a
ship proceeding, directly from Portugal to Macao armA in a pc sition, to pick
up certain cargo..
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Comment. P.J Lobo is the Chief of the Economic
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references to hit smuggli., iviti
The Hong Kong Dollar Direc.tory for
Sr. 4as-itannger of Folasco IACIA.. Ltd? 20
H. Waage? Jr., F. Volasoo and J. Nolasco are
certain whether the above report reforil to Uolaoo
Commmt, reports more fully on police
tYis trade.
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