Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LA
To: HQ
Document date: 04/27/1962
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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I Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

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Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER : 124-90008-10017

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 63-5327-2384

Document Information

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FBI

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LA

TO: HQ

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DATE:

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04/27/1962

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JAMES RIDDLE HOFFA

RICHARD KAVNER

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

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RE:

DIRECTOR, FBI (63-5327)

SAC, LOS ANGELES (137-2561)

JAMES RIDDLE HOFFA

MISCELLANEOUS. - INFORMATION

CONCERNING

(ACCOUNTING AND FRAUD SECTION)

Re: Bureau airtel to New York and Los Angeles,

3/30/62.

on 4/26/62, LA 4350-C advised that at the present

time, informant has the following business interests in

Honolulu:

(1) Informant holds 30,000 shares of stock in

Waikiki Savings and Loan Assocation, which assocration was

Formed within the last nine months by PHILIP & MATHEW..

President and

Chairman of the Board of ailer noire corp.

which is a holding company located in Beverly Hills, California.

Informant and MATHEW are very close personal friends.

Waikiki Savings and Loan Association opened for

business in December, 1961, and has its office in the Unity

House, 1956 Ala Moana, Honolulu. This association is

chartered by the State of Hawaii, and with the exception

of MATHEW, all of the officers and directors of this

association are residents of Hawa11.

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According to the informant

Unity House is a

building owned as a co-op by the local Teamsters Unions,

the local Culinary Unions,

and the local Plasterers Unions

in Hawaii.

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According to Informant, in December, 1961, Walkiki

Savings and Loan Association entered into an agreement with

the various unions who are members of Unity House, where

Waikiki Savings and Loan Association issued one share of

stock of the association to each member of the various unions

at Unity House, and the Unions agreed to open a $5 account in

the name of each member of the unions.

Under the agreement,

the individual members had complete control of their share

of stock, and their $5 account.

Informant noted that many of

the members have either sold their stock, and/or closed out

their account since December, 1961. Informant does not know

exactly how many shares of Waikiki Savings and Loan stock are were

aisbursed in this manner, but believes the figure to total

between 6,500 shares and

8,500 shares.

Informant stated that prior to this distribution,

the legal problems connected with such disbursement was discussed

with various attorneys, and it was their opinion that the

disbursement was entirely legal.

Informant said that no Teamsters money was involved

in the setting up of Waikiki Savings and Loan Association, and

that the Teamsters Union has absolutely nothing to do with

the ownership and/or management of Walkiki Savings and Loan

Association.

Informant noted that some of the Teamsters

locals located in Honolulu might have deposits in this

association, however, he has no definite information on this

point.

Informant said the only Teamster official who

has any stock in Waikiki Savings and Loan Association is

RICHARD KANER, a Teamster international organizer from St.

KABNER was an original subscriber to 500

stock was sold at $1.50 per share.

Informant stated that

at the present time,

Waikiki Savings and Loan Association 1

a closed corporation; however, plans are under way to make &

public offering of stock which

will take place in approximately

one year.

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DATE: 11-14-2017

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(2) Informant advised that some time ago, MATHEW

purchased a block of Ewa Plantation stock, and that informant

Joined MATHEW in this venture.

According to informant,

Castle and Cooke, one of the big five in Honolulu, presently

own 51 per cent of Ewa Plantation stock.

Informant said that

some

time ago, MATHEW made a complete study of wa Plantation

stock, and noted that the stockwas selling for approximately

$20 per share. It was MATHEW's opinion that the stock should

be selling at

on the Boar

the stock, they also had control of all of the Board of

Directors of Ewa Plantation, and according to MATHEW, were

able to run the company for their own benefit.

Subsequently, MATHEW began purchasing Ewa

Plantation stock, and

at the present

time, MATHEW and

his friends, who include the informant, own approximately

44 per cent

of the stock, and at the next meeting of the

stockholders, MATHEW's group intends to obtain two seats

on the Board

of Directors.

Informant stated that MATHEW hasbbeen having

and has offered to sell

share, or purchase all of the stock presently owned by Castle

and Cooke for $50 per share. Informant believes that this

situation will be cleared up within the next three months,

and that either Castle and Cooke will buy the stock controlled

by MATHEW, or MATHEW will buy Castle and Cooke's stock.

in this situation, and that MATHEW 1s a shrewd enough

operator to be able to see that Castle and Cooke was

deliberately depressing the 'Ewa Plantation stock, and is a

big enough man in the financial world to take advantage of

such

a situation.

(3) Informant stated that he maintains two

offices in the Unity House in Honolulu, out of which he 1s

engaged in an import business, buying merchandise from Japan.

Informant stated that he has just started this business

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within the last two or three months, and that at the present

time,

he is not making any money from this operation.

Informant

plans to expand this business venture in the near future.

Informant stated that other than the above, he has

no other business interests in Hawail.

Inasmuch as the information furnished above

deals directly with the informant's business interests in

Hawaii, and none of the information indicates any possible

criminal violation, it is recommended that under no

circumstances should any of this information be disseminated

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