Originator: FBI
From: HQ
To: LA
Document date: 09/28/1961
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/1/2015

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-90044-10018

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

63-7145-2

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: HQ

TO:

LA

TITLE :

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

09/28/1961

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FRANK MATULA

JAMES RIDDLE HOFFA

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/05/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

AT

68262 Date: 109-22-2022

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9/28/61

Airtel

TO: SACS, Los Angeles

Seattle

From: Director, FBI (63-New)

JAKES RIDDLE HOFFA

FRANK J! MATULA, JR.

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION CONCERNING

(ACCOUNTING AND FRAUD SECTION)

(00: LOS ANGELES)

Reference is made to prior communications from

Los Angeles which set out Information received from informant

referred to as "Clip" and particularly to that which relates

to frank J. latula, Jr., an International Trustee of the

Teamsters Union.

The Bureau has opened a new case, captioned the

sane as this airtel, and the field should ldo. likewise.

A full and complete investigation of the allegations concerning

Matula

as set out in page 25 of the enclosure to los Angeles

airtel of 9/1/51 captioned "James Riddle Hoffa; S. George

Burris; First Berkeley Corporation of New York; Miscellaneous -

Information Concerning' (Accounting and Fraud Section)" should

be conducted.

MAILED 8

SEP 2 & 1961

COMM-FBI

Tolson

Belmont

Mohr

Callahan

Conrad

LoDeLoach .

Evans

Malone

Rosen

EFK: mp

(8)

Sullivan

T'avel

Trotter

Tele. Room.

52 OCT 3

Ingram

Gandy -

MAIL ROOM

196

set out on page as of the enclosure which was captionee

"Frank Matula."

"Frank Matula,

Teanster official, Los Angeles,

California,

and International Trustee of Teamster Union is in

about 20 real

estate

deals with Colonel John Gottlieb of

1 - Honollu (Infornation)

REG- 51

EX 100

63-113-2

F8 SEP 29 1961

TELETYPE UNIT

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Airtel to SACs, Los Angeles

Seattle

RE: JAMES RIDDLE HOFFA

63- New

Beverly Hills, California.

Matula on local probation and

used to be runner for Babe Mc Coy and Frank Brewster, former

Teamster officials.

Matula wants out of Teamsters, is

deathly afraid of being arrested and is ripe for intensified

interrogation."

"John B. Stevenson, former West Coast attorney for

Teamsters Union,

is close associate of Brewster and Dave Beck.

Stevenson now semi-retired and lives in Honolulu.

His office

in Los Angeles is run by attorney Charles K. Hackler whon

Hoffa does not respect..

Hackler pays Stevenson $400 monthly

although Stevenson does not work.

Stevenson holds approximately

80% of Matula's cash. Stevenson has a boat in Honoluly where

it is suspected that currency may be hidden."

The Bureau has not disseminated any of the information

quoted above to the Department. Therefore, it is desired.

that the informant be reinterviewed immediately to obtain

further specifics with respect to this information. Efforts

should be made to pin down the informant as to the sources

of his information on all of the above-mentioned points.

As soon as this has been done, Los Angeles should

incorporate all information given by the informant on these

points (both at the time he mentioned them originally and

upon subsequent recontacts) into a letterhead menorandum

suitable for dissemination to the Department.: The letterhead

memorandum should bear

the same caption. as this airtel and

should be forwarded to the Bureau by cover airtel.

The

identity of the informant should not be revealed

therein nor

should he be referred to as "Clip." The additional information

the informant furnishes also should be utilized as the basis

for further investigative leads in this case.

For the information of Los Angeles, the story told

by "Clip" concerning Matula as set out in Los Angeles airtels

of 9/13/61 and 9/20/61 (LA file 62-4945) is being made available

to the Department, in paraphrased form, by the Bureau.

Therefore,

Los Angeles's letterhead memorandum should not include or

make

any reference to this information.

A copy of the Bureau's

communication to the Department in this regard is being

forwarded

to Los Angeles separately.

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