Releasedumiter“the ait FF. Kennedy Beeaseination Records Collection Act of 1993 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 or JFK Assassination System 5/27/201 Identification Form Date: I Agency Information AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : . RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : FBI 124-10336-10319 DE ELSUR 92-470-1446 a Document Information v9.1 2 Docld: 32314671 Page 1 ‘ ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: DE TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 06/26/1963 PAGES: 2 SUBJECTS : { JAMES RIDDLE HOFFA, ELSUR § { DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified | RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW:: 08/27/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : AT | i it i ‘| | i i { r I é
a= ér the Jo . Kennedy f8seaseination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 Us¢ 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 se? ror = = [- 6/26/63 AIRTEL . AERMAIL 70; DIRECTOR, FBI (63-5327) yr vous SAC, DETROIT (92-470) JAMES REDDLE HOFFA MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCEE (ACCOUNTING AND FRAUD SECTION) ReBuairtel 6/24/63... At the time of contact with DE 370=-C om 6/10/63, the informant made the comsents set forth in the LEM and made the additional comment, "Thie ig for your personal information and not for your files,” informant indicating that he was making these comments for the personal information of SA PALMER M. SA WEE attempted to determine from the informant whether he had personal knowledge of this decision, whether it was speculation om his part or whether he had obtaimed the information from another source, Jnformant answered that SA WES should mark his worde and he will see that the infomation is correct. Informant refused to be amy more specific, SA WEE has not been instructed to recontact DE S7O-C as it is mot considered prudent to do so at the present time in view of the informant's comments at the time he furnished this information om 6/10/63, RNING In regard to the probable reliability of this information, DE 370=C is considered to have personal knowledge concerning some activities of HOFFA and the Teamsters Union. The following is furnished for the additional information of the Bureau; however, due to the sensitive mature of the below= listed informant, care should be utilized in the 270 io of the information: QA? ike $= Bureau SEARCHED T)~ Detroit SERIALIZED . INDEXED | | Docld: 32314671 Page 2?
eTohn F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 oy DE 92-470 DE 925-Cxadvised on 6/13/63, that SYLVIA PARIS and CHARLES "CHUCK" O'BRIEN were discussing FITZSIMMONS, presumably FRANK FITZSIMONS, and CHUCK made the comment, "They don’t eave about Hoffa. They don’t care if Hoffa lives or dies." PARIS commented that it was too bad what O°BRIEN did as | ghe imagined that floored “him” (presumably HOFFA) as . O'BRIEN was “all set up to have his job." She alse stated, ‘Whoever takes Jimmy Hoffa's place should fire them ail." in the past DE 919-C¢ has indicated that O'BRIEN was in line for the presidency of the Teamsters Union, Local 299, Detroit, and that if he was convicted in the customs case presently pending against him in Detroit, along with SAM FINAZZO and TOM PARISI, O°BRIEN’s chances at the presidency would be yold as the charges felony and he could then no longer ! be a union officer. | in view of the above, it appears that the comments of DE 370-C, as set forth in the LYM enclosed with Detroit [ airtel ef 6/20/63, may relate only to HOFFA not being | a candidate for re-election to the presidency of Teamsters Union Local 299, rather than to the presidency of the | tnternationals | . . Detroit recommends that, UACB, efforts be made to discreetly 7 clarify this matter during the next regular contact with BE 370-C and the LEM resubmitted if more specific information t is obtained, . _ ] : [ ‘ \ , “ | ; | : “ { i 5 Docld: 32314671 Page 3