HONG KONG CRIME BOSSES FLEE TO U.S.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100120141-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 141
• Publication Date: February 5, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2011/12/22 : CIA-RDP90-00965R000100120141-5
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WASHINGTON POST
5 February 1985
JACK ANDERSON
Hong Mpg Crime' ID"osses Flee to U.S.
ong Kong capitalists aren't the only ones who
are fleeing the British colony before it is
taken over by communist China in 1997. The
city's organized crime bosses are also packing up,
doubtless spurred by the spectacle of Peking's
policy of capital punishment for crimes that are all
in a day's work for underworld professionals.
The businessmen have been reluctant to transfer
their assets and operations to the United States,
ma my because taxes would be about three times
whai they're used to paying. Unfortunately, the
crime bosses, having no such -concerns, are moving
to our shores as fast as they can.
My associate. Donald Goldberg has obtained
several internal and confidential law-enforcement
reports that detail the crime lords' activities..
The Chinese crime gangs are known as "triads."
According to one Customs Service analysis, "Triads
are secret fraternal Chinese associations which
traditionally engage is gamma narcotitcs,
prostitution, loan sharking, rackets, protection and
anything else worthy of a a-?
Although eompmsed.af prawn crkao gals ,
"who without hesitation will use violence is fur'.' :