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Hells Angels

The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) is an international outlaw motorcycle club whose members typically ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles. In the United States and Canada, the Hells Angels are incorporated as the Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation. Common nicknames for the club are the "H.A.", "Red & White", "HAMC", and "81".[10] With a membership of over 6,000, and 467 charters in 59 countries, the HAMC is the largest "outlaw" motorcycle club in the world.[8][9][11]

For other uses, see Hells Angels (disambiguation).

Abbreviation

March 17, 1948 (1948-03-17)[3][4]

Otto Friedli[4]

Fontana, California,
United States[5]

Outlaw motorcycle club

Oakland, California,
United States[6]

Worldwide (467 charters in 59 countries)[7]

6,000[8][9]

Sonny Barger

hells-angels.com

Many police and international intelligence agencies, including the United States Department of Justice, the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada, the Australian Federal Police, and Europol, consider the club an organized crime syndicate.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18]

List of outlaw motorcycle clubs

Hunter S. Thompson (1999). . Modern Library. ISBN 978-0-679-60331-3.

Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

Yves Lavigne (2000). . Random House of Canada, Limited. ISBN 978-0-7704-2858-7.

Hell's Angels: Taking Care of Business

Valerie Smart (2001). . Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-0910-5.

The Original Hell's Angels: 303rd Bombardment Group of World War II

Paul Cherry (2005). . ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-55490-250-7.

The Biker Trials: Bringing Down the Hells Angels

Barker, Thomas (2007). Biker Gangs and Organized Crime. London: Routledge.  978-0323298704.

ISBN

Edward Winterhalder; Wil De Clercq (2008). . ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-55490-321-4.

The Assimilation: Rock Machine Become Bandidos: Bikers United Against the Hells Angels

Sonny Barger (2009). . HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-184736-3.

Hell's Angel: The Autobiography of Sonny Barger

Jerry Langton (2009). . John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-73994-5.

Fallen Angel: The Unlikely Rise of Walter Stadnick and the Canadian Hells Angels

William Marsden; Julian Sher (2010). . Knopf Canada. ISBN 978-0-307-37032-7.

Angels of Death: Inside the Bikers' Empire of Crime

Sher, Julian; Marsden, William (2010). . Knopf Canada. ISBN 978-0-307-36586-6.

The Road to Hell: How the Biker Gangs are Conquering Canada

Yves Lavigne (2011). Hells Angels: Into the Abyss. HarperCollins Publishers Limited.  978-1-4434-0411-2.

ISBN

Yves Lavigne (2011). Hell's Angels at War. HarperCollins Publishers Limited.  978-1-4434-0410-5.

ISBN

Carter F. Smith (2017). . Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1442275171.

Gangs and the Military: Gangsters, Bikers, and Terrorists with Military Training

– includes many chartered local charters, with links

Official website

at Curlie

Hells Angels

FBI file on Hell's Angels

– slideshow by Life magazine

Never-Seen: Hells Angels, 1965