WIDER TEAMSTER FUND PROBE SOUGHT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400090010-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 27, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 21, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

Teamster'. Fund Probe'.Soug
The indictment r e I .ii r n e d
i7June 4 contains 27 counts of
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arty, r r a n h u. Meuse(,
representing'the fund, said the
new request for suhpenas
(conies after 22 previous sum.
f monings of records in the last
!two years. He contended the
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They Include real estate com- tro for the ransome of prison-
panics, resorts, hotels, manu- ers from ? the''hhortlVe Day 'of
fueturers, a distillery, transport I'-gs invasion in 1961.
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P !o: ,AU G 21 1963
Tuesday its3:e'3te=. District
Court here to authorize the fed-
eral grand jury to broaden its
probe of the teamster union's
pension funds.
Judge Bernard M. Decker
Set Sept. 9 for it hearing before
(Chief Judge William J. Camp-
ibell on a government request
to subpena records on 32 loans
made from the hege fund.
The grand jury already has
Indicted James R. Hoffa, presi-
put $1,000,000 of $20,000,000 Government attorneys are to conipanics, it newspaper and
in pension-fund loans to their appear Sep t.4 in court either three. irisurance companies--in:
own uses. to request Immediate proceed- chiding two in Chicago,
Haifa is a trustee of the no on tt t June 4th indictment, Attorney James B. Donovan
funds, now said to be worth delay of trial until coment of New York and another law?,
$_40,000,000. Offices of the or yer, Walter H. Moses, request-
funrs, covering the Central tion of a Nashville (Tenn.) trial ed the court's permission to ap-
States and Southeast and South- of Hoffa and others on charges pear in defense of the fund"
west areas, are at 29 C, Mad- of tampering with a jury.- Donovan is the negotiator.
icon. The 32 companies on which who arranged the exchange of
S p e c i a l Asst. U.S. Ally. records are now sought re- CIA a "cnt Francis G. Powers
Charles Z. Smith asked that ceivca loans in excess of $30,- or ussrut spy Rudolph Abel
suhpenas for loan records be 000,000 from the pension and later ne'otiated with Cu.
sent to Francis J. Murtha; exec- funds, government lawyers said, ban priniee N -mister . i e as-
dent of the International Broth utive secretary of the fund,
erhood of Teamsters, and seven Stanford Clinton, attorney for
(i, ussociatec on c'a'ges of having 1 the fund, and Morris Lieber-