Chinatown leaders under subpoena take a break during a grand jury session in a corridor of the Post
Chinatown leaders under subpoena take a break during a grand jury session in a corridor of the Post Office Building. One of them sits on records of his family association, which also were under subpoena. Mar. 1, 1956. Photo courtesy of San Francisco History Center. 1955: Everett Drumwright, US consul in Hong Kong, makes an unsubstantiated claim in his Foreign Service report that virtually all Chinese in America — all the way back to the days of the California gold rush — were/are illegal aliens capable of all manner of criminal activity such as narcotics trafficking, counterfeiting currency, illegally collecting Social Security and veteran’s benefits, issuing fake passports, and spying for China. He further reported that a network of Chinese sleepers who had infiltrated the US, were waiting on orders to sabotage and destroy America. 1956: Following Everett Drumwright’s report of the previous year, the US Attorney Lloyd Burke subpoenas 40 major Chinese American associations demanding a full accounting of income, membership and photographs within 24 hours. Chinatowns on both coasts are raided frequently and business are disrupted at a loss of $100,000 a week. A federal judge eventually rules in favor of the Chinese, calling the subpoena attack a “mass inquisition.” -- source link
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