Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DIRECTOR, FBI
To: SAC, LA
Document date: 09/15/1961
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/6/2015

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER:

RECORD SERIES :

FBI

124-10302-10300

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

63-7112-1

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

DIRECTOR, FBI

TO :

SAC, LA

TITLE:

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

09/15/1961

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RK, EMP, MED, ASSOC, TEAMSTERS UNION, BUSS

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS : 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 12/16/1997

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

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9/15/61

AIRTEL

Tolson

Belmont

Mohr

Callahan

Conrad

DeLoach

Evans

Malone

Rosen

Sullivan

Tavel

Trotter

Tele. Room

Ingram

Gandy

TO:

SACS, LOS ANGELES

ST .

LOUIS

MINNEAPOLIS

FROM:

- PIRECTOR, FBI (63-294

JAMES /RIDOLE HOTTA; EARL SCHLIE

EARL SCHEID AUTO PAINT SHOPS; ANTHONY DORIA

FRANK A. HATFIELD; DICKCSAVNER

MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING

ACCOUNTING AND FRAUD SECTION)

(00:LA)

ReLhairtel 9/1/51, captioned "JAMES RIDDLE HOFFA; $. GEORGE

BURRIS; FIRST BERKELEY CORPORATION OF NEW YORK; MISCELLANBOUS -

INFORMATION CONCERNING (ACCOUNTING AND FRAUD SECTION)," urfile

62-5003, Bufile 03-6609, and particularly to page 2 of the enclosure

thereto captioned "EARL SCHEIB" and re page 4 o1 LAtel dated 8/31/61,

in the same case, which set out infornation received by Los Angeles

from an informant referred to therein as "Clip," as set out below:

The informant advised that Anthony Doria who formerly Was

associated with the United Automobile Workers of America,

American

Federation of Labor (AIL), organized the employees of Barl Scheib

Auto Paint Shops, a nationwide autonobile painting concern,

that union at an unstated date in the past.

into

This labor contract

reportedly wass transterred later to an independent union which

Doria represented after Doria was ousted by the AFl.

Anthony

Doria allegedly has been and still is working for Hoffa, even

hough Dorie purportedly represents an independent union.

The informant related that Scheib's labor contract is now

being taken over by Local 495, Teamsters Union, Los Angeles,

California, of which Frank

Hatfield is the Secretary. Hatfield

was said to be under Hoffa's control and agreeable to signing any

contract Hotta tells him to signo

This transier to Local 495 of

Schelb's labor

contract allegedly

was engineered by Dick Kavner,

711

EFK: eem

19221

MCT - 17

ANOTE: The informant

¡Ithis case is Meyer "Mike"

Singer, a former Teamsters linnibificial

in LOS

Angeles and formerly a close

associate of Hoffa's.

TELETYPE UNIT

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AIRTEL TO SACS, LA, SI, VE

RE: : JAMES RIDDLE HOFFA, EARL SCHEIB, etc.

63-new

an international organizer for the Teamsters Union.

Kavner was

reported to be a

sick man who wants to leave the Teamsters Union

but Hoffa does not trust lavner and will not let him go.

Kavner

reportedly is in Mayo Clinic at the present time and the source

feels that Kavner may be "ripe" for intensilied inquiry.

According to the informant Earl Scheib has been paying

Doria regularly during the life of a

"sweetheart" contract.

reportedly spends every day at the race track and every night

Scheib

getting drunk at the Del Monico Restaurant, 828 South Robertson

Boulevard, Los Angeles; which Scheib also owns. Scheib allegedly

loses a lot of money gambling and the informant believes that payofis

to Doria may be covered in this fashion.

The Bureau has opened a new case, captioned the same

as this airtel, with los Angeles as origin and the field should do

likewise®

A full and complete investigation concerning all of the

afore-mentioned items should be initiated immediately.

LoS Angeles should immediately reinterview the informant

to obtain further specifics concerning all of the above mentioned

matters with particular emphasis on ascertaining, 11 possible,

his sources and any evidence that might zerist which will establish

that these allegations are true.

The additional information the

informant furnishes concerning this matter should be incorporated

Into & letterhead nemorandum suitable for dissemination to the

Criminal Division, which should be forwarded to the Bureau by cover

airtel.

The identity of the informant should be concealed therein

and; of course, he should not be referred to as "Clip."

additional information given by the informant also should be utilized

as the basis for further avenues of investigation in this case

and appropriate leads based thereon should be set

out and covered

Immediately.

As

stated above the investigation in this case should be

completo and thorough in all respects

The field should conduct

all logical investigation to determine the veracity of this

infornation..

It is pointed out that through imaginative and

probative

investigation it may be possible to develop violations of Section 186,

Title 29, U, S Code on the part of Schelb, Doria and Hatfield,

or possibly Hoffa, if it can be established that he has shared

in

any payoff made by scheib to a union official

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