Tim's Motorcycles
John Young
jya at pipeline.com
Tue Dec 19 13:27:41 PST 2000
Motorcycle gangs as international crime threat
Excerpted from:
"International Crime Threat Assessment," December 15, 2000
<http://cryptome.org/piccs.rep.htm>http://cryptome.org/piccs.rep.htm (410K)
Mexican traffickers have also come to dominate methamphetamine
production and distribution in the United States, which had
been controlled by outlaw elements in US motorcycle gangs.
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US Crime Groups Abroad
Some US crime groups have established cells and networks in
foreign countries, and are engaged in a wide range of criminal
activities. In many cases, the US crime groups use their
overseas networks to acquire drugs and other illicit contraband
or to prey upon US businesses, as they do in the United States.
Law enforcement authorities in other countries also report that
US crime groups are involved in money laundering, extortion,
prostitution, drug trafficking, firearms smuggling, car theft,
street crimes, and contract murders.
The most notorious US crime groups operating overseas are
outlaw elements of motorcycle gangs, according to US law
enforcement agencies. Some of the approximately 900 motorcycle
gangs that have been identified as having outlaw elements by
US law enforcement have worldwide chapters and are expanding
into other countries at a significant rate. The increasing
overseas presence of US motorcycle gangs, together with their
criminal members' tendency to associate with other crime
groups to further their criminal ends, are causing increasing
concern among law enforcement authorities around the world.
Law enforcement authorities in countries where motorcycle
gangs have established themselves indicate that the
motorcycle gangs are extensively involved in organized crime
and have particularly bad reputations for violence, property
crimes, prostitution and extortion rackets, and trafficking
in drugs and firearms.
[The other US crime group abroad is La Cosa Nostra, second
to motorcycle gangs.]
"The assessment prepared by a US Government interagency working
group in support of and pursuant to the President's International
Crime Control Strategy. Representatives from the Central
Intelligence Agency; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Drug
Enforcement Administration; US Customs Service; US Secret Service;
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; National Drug Intelligence
Center; the Departments of State, the Treasury, Justice, and
Transportation; the Office of National Drug Control Policy; and
the National Security Council participated in the drafting the
assessment."
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