U.S. Issues Report on Transnational Organized Crime

On December 15, 2000, the Clinton Administration and the National Security Council issued a 120-page report outlining transnational crime threats and its consequences for U.S. strategic interests. At the direction of the President and as part of the International Crime Control Strategy, which was released in May 1998, a U.S. Government interagency working group has prepared the following comprehensive assessment of the threat posed by international crime to Americans and their communities, U.S. businesses and financial institutions, and global security and stability…[more]