WATERFRONT LAWLESSNESS IN MACAO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004900590009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 31, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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to Lu~;;age carriers along the Macao waterfront are now large groins of racket-
ears who follow landing passengers and demand D aynents of from three to five
Macao dollars for each niece of luggage. If they do not get what they want,
they give the traveler a beating or take his lu.ggzge or money by force.
2, If the racketeers meet a person, who cannot carry his own lug ge, they
demand twenty to thirty Macao dollars apiece. On 30 March, a. Chinese
arriving from Macao on the SS HU M`: TN was forced to y V;.33OO fo. eleven
pieces of luggage. When luggage is unloaded on the viers from incoming
ships, the racketeers surround the baggage and denand high fees for
carrying it, letting neither the owner nor his relatives or friends
carry it away themselves.
3. The racketeers follow travelers to ticket-selling, offices and agencies
and demand commissions on the grounds that they brought the custor^er to
the agency. They have so intimidated the shinning con-nanies with threats
that those fires do not d .a,re protest to the Macao authorities.
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
latter of 18 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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