UNITED STATES PIVOTS TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY RISKS POSED BY CARIBBEAN CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT PROGRAMS

While the hue and cry over the war against Iran dominates the news, in Washington D.C., decision makers in government focus upon the National Security threat that the corrupt Citizenship by Investment (CBI/CIP) programs, operated by the five Eastern Caribbean states, present to America. In private briefings, senior American leaders have recently been advised on how these controversial programs started, how they have become fatally corrupted, and how they constitute a Clear and Present Danger to the National Security of the United States.

For those readers that are unfamiliar with the principal issue surrounding the CBI programs of the five East Caribbean states (Saint Kitts & Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia, Dominica and Grenada), it is appropriate here to restate it: A number of the programs have, in essence, been taken over by foreign companies controlled by the Peoples' Republic of China (PRC), which resulted in tens of thousands of passports, all from low-risk jurisdictions, being issued to dodgy Chinese nationals, all without any due diligence to ascertain their suitability.

We note that dual citizenship is technically illegal in the PRC, but the Government of China , which had a dark agenda for their use against the United States, tacitly permitted their use for illegal purposes. Many of those new passport holders used these identity documents to enter the United States, where they committed white collar crimes, industrial espionage, theft of valuable dual-use technology with national defense implication, and engaged in intelligence activities on behalf of the PRC, sal to the damage and detriment of our National Security.

Additionally, Iranian nationals, operating inside Iraq, and with the active cooperation of the CBI-issuing states, secured their passports, alleging on the documents that they were Iraqi citizens, and used those travel documents to enter the U.S. and engage in criminal, terrorist and espionage activities.

The briefings which we understand were conducted by experts in the field of economic citizenship & passports, as well as by retired senior U.S. law enforcement agents with first-hand experience in prior cases involving Chinese and Iranian abuse of CBI within the United States, have now alerted America's leadership to the problem at hand, and to the potential solutions available.

We understand that, after giving the subject thorough and complete consideration, affirmative and positive action will be taken to reign in the rogue states that have engaged in the illicit sale of passports that facilitate autocratic China's and Iran's actions against the National Security of the United States, and to suppress the future employment of these criminal identity tools against America and look forward to seeing the Department of State and Department of Justice in action.