Originator: FBI
From: LA
To: HQ
Document date: 09/13/1961
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

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AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90044-10085

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HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

CR 63-5327-1495

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DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

FRANK MATULA

JAMES RIDDLE HOFFA

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FD-36 (Rev: 12-13-56)

FBI

Date:

9/13/61

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AIRTEL

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TO :

FROM:

RE :

DIRECTOR, FBI. (63-5327)

SAC, LOS ANGELES (62-4945)

JAMES RIDDLE HOFFA

MISCELLANEOUS

INFORMATION CONCERNING

(ACCOUNTING AND FRAUD SECTION)

00: Detroit

on 9/13/61, CLIP was recontacted by SAs ALBERT A.

HUSTEDT (A) and LOGAN J. LANE, at which time he advised that

the following information under no circumstances should be

disseminated outside the Bureau as it would put his life in

Source said that he did not contact the

Agents at the time of the event discussed because he felt

he was in the position that could have jeopardized his life.

Source said that he is confident that similar circumstances

will take place in the future and perhaps he will be able

to obtain more complete details and relay the information

to the Los Angeles Office at the time it takes place.

Source

indicated that he will be talking to SAS LANE and HUSTEDT

many occasions in the future and stated flatly that he

will at not discuss any HOFFA matters with any other representatives

of the government, including the FBI..

statements made to date are sufficient to "get en kaited has

Source advised that on Friday, 9/8/61, at 1:15 p.m.,

ne entered Lennie's Restaurant on Beverly Drive.

Beverly

Hills,

California with PHIlAMATHEW

He immediately spotted

FRANK MATULA, sitting at a table with

an unknown woman.

Upon seeing source, MATULA got up and

walked over to source

talked to him.

He acted like he wanted to tell source

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LA 62-4945

something, so source left MATTHEW and went over in the corner

and talked to MATULA.

MATULA wanted to go outside; however,

source told him he could not inasmuch as he was with MATTHEW.

MATULA told source that he had just arrived at

Lennie's Restaurant a few minutes before the meeting, after

a trip from San Francisco. MATULA pointed to his right breast

coat.

man. "Pocket and stated,

"The bundle here is for the old

MATULA indicated he was going to deliver to HOFFA that

evening. Source estimates that MATULA had a million dollars

in cash

in his pocket.

When questioned as to how he arrived

at the million dollar figure, source stated that he has

carried as much as $500,000,

and he knows how much money

you can carry, in your pocket.

Source stated that the money

was probably in $100 bills and he estimated that MATULA had

a bulge in his pocket of approximately six inches.

Source was asked why MATULA would tell him that

he was carrying a "bundle" for HOFFA, and CLIP stated that

when he was active in the Teamsters Union, he and MATULA

often competed for the favor of HOFFA and source believes

that MATULA was trying to "show off" to source.

Source

stated that there is no question in his mind that MATULA

was carrying money to deliver to HOFFA and that the amount

being carried was around a million dollars. source did not

actually see money.

Source did not know the significance of the unknown

woman being with MATULA. He noted that MATULA takes great

pride in traveling with extremely good-looking women and that

the woman who was with MATULA at the restaurant did not

meet the standards of MATULA's usual female companions.

As a result,

source concluded that the woman was somenow

involved in

business being transacted by MATULA. Source

had never seen this woman before and had no idea who she

might be.

He furnished the following physical description

of this

unknown woman:

Race

Age

Height

Weight

Hair

White

28-32

5'2-4"

100 lbs.

Long, black, hung to the shoulders

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