Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: NY
To: HQ
Document date: 12/6/63
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/6/2015

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-90008-10008

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 63-5327-3614

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

NY

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE: 12/06/1963

PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

JAMES RIDDLE HOFFA

RICHARD KAVNER

DOCUMENT TYPE:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

09/16/1997

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: TT

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JAMES RIDDLE HOFFA-, MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING

RENYTEL TWELVE FIVE SIXTY THREE.

NY TWO THREE ZERO FIVE- C ADVISED HOFFA TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED

HIM THIS DATE FROM MIAMI AND ASKED HIM TO ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY

FOR RUNNING THE INTERNATIONAL OFFICE IN WASHINGTON , DC., ON A FULL

TIME BASIS. INFORMANT DECLINED BECAUSE OF HIS HEALTH STATUS. WHEN ASKED

ABOUT THE CURRENT FRICTION, HOFFA STATED IT WAS COPIES MAD-COULD

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PROBABLY BE PATCHED UP

JOHN STRONG,

Potential Criminal Informant

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MESS ANTERNATTONAL VICE PRESIDENT, IBT, DICK

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GENERAL ORGANIZER FROM ST. LOUIS, PETE/SALSO, INTERNAIIONAL ORGANIZER,

AND LABRY STEINBERG, ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENT OF IBT, ALL TENDERED

Potential Criminal Informant

RESIENATIONS AS INTERNATIONAL OFFICLES OF IAT DOT WAS TOLD GIBBONS HOURS

REMAIN AS UNPAID VICE PRESIDENIC IN STULQUI AND OTHES WOULD GO BACK

ON SALARY WITH THEIR LOCAL UNIONS.

AFTER A CONFERENCE WITH

HOFFA, THEY WITHDREW THE IN IGNATIONS UNTIL AFTER KOFFA-S TRIALS

IN NASHVILLE. O- ROURKE; SAID SERIOUS

BIFFERNCES. HAD BEEN BULLDE

UP AND WERE CLIMAXED BY THE DEATH OF PRÉSIDENI KENNEPTEC LAT 19HAI, TIME

HOFFA MADE A STATEMENT TO THE EFFECT THAT THE PRESIDENT-S DEAZÉMAS

GOOD BECAUSE IT WOULD FINISH " LITTLE BROTHER BOBBY"

O-ROURKE e

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TOLD SOURCE GIBBONS AND STEINBERG RESENTED HOFFA-S ATTITUDE. GIBBONS

SUBSEQUENTLY SENT A TELEGRAM OF CONDOLENCES AND STEINBERG CLOSED THE

INTERNATIONAL OFFICES IN WASHINGTON, DC., OUT OF RESPECT FOR THE

PRESIDENT. BOTH OF THESE ACTIONS BROUGHI ON VIOLENT ARGUMENTS WITH HOFFA•

O-GROURKE TOLD THE SOURCE THAT GIBBONS AND THE OTHERS TOOK A FIRM

POSITION BUT BACKED DOWN SO HE IS NOT TAKING SIDES. AT PRESENT.

Potential Criminal Informant

PET SUBSEQUENTLY ADVISED THIS DATE THAT JOHN O-ROURKE TELEPHONICALN

CONTACTED HIM AND TOLD MIM THAT HAROLD GIBBONS, DICK KAUNER, PETE SAPSO,

VISA

LARRY STEINBERG, YUKI

REATHLEY AND FARGESON.

KEATHLEY, HAVE QUIT

THEIR JOBS AS MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL STAFF. O-ROURKE SAID

THESE RESIGNATIONS ARE FINAL. Q- ROURKE TOLD THE SOURCE THAT

HOFFA IS" ACTING LIKE A RAVING MADMAN", AND HE ANTICIPATES GIBBONS

TEAMSTERS UNION

AND THE OTHERS WILL BRING HOFFA UP ON CHARGES BEFORE THE (IBT) AND

ATTEMPT TO HAVE HOFFA DISMISSED AS GENERAL PRESIDENT OF THE IBT.

O- ROURKE DID NOT STATE HIS POSITION TO SOURCE OTHER THAN SAY HE IS " ON

THE FENCE AT THE PRESENT.

FOR INFORMATION OF BUREAU, SAM BARON IS IN REGULAR CONIACT WITH

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, ANDNY TWO THREE ZERO FIVE- C ADVISED HE

RECENTLY LEARNED THAT HAROLD GIBBONS IS REGULARLY CONTACTING BARON.

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