SAY RAY OFFERED 250G TO CONTROL PAPER

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000200760008-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 4, 1982
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? OLE APPEARED
ON PACE. g , NEW YORK DAILY NE',G
4 January 1982
SAT RAT O F322D 2300 . T - CONTROL PAP
Secretary of Labor. Raymond Donovan, a major put $250,000'on the table-at a meeting of our board of
backer of the defunct newspaper-The Tribr invested' directors; Safir said yesterday. "But that would have
about $350,000-in the New York tabloid in 1978 and given him ":control of the:-paper, and Buckley's
.tried to pump another $250,000 to gain control of the brother-in-law, Ray Learsy, - who was the major
former U.S: Sew James Ruckley it was learned was also--at-the meeting, but he didn't''say a word." 1
Donovan's dealings' withTheTrib and his relation-, Donovan's- money was rejected."
ship with Douglas LaChance,'.former. head. of_ the ': Safir, Buckley's:original campaign-=manager,'
newspaper deliverers union may come under-scru- folded the paper shortly-before the three dailies here
tiny by special- federal prosecutor Leon Silverman,-1.: were struck' in-the summer of 1978.- He insisted he
who will probe'allegations- of ?a union payoff by:..had no knowledge about what took place at the-Jan.
Donovan's company in a. separate: matter. -Donovan 10 meeting or-how Donovan had convinced LaChance.,
-asked for the probe following allegations that he was _ to call off the- stoppage by his_drivers.'
present when a payoff was. made to buy labor peace - "I had nothing to do with the talks because I was .'I
for the Schiavone Construction Co.:of Secaucus, N.J.- -busy at the paper,":said Safir. "Donovan was protec-
The Trib began publishing in Jan. 1978 and, after. ting his investment by meeting with LaChance_" - .
an initial sale of 250,000 copies, LaChance's drivers-. Also involved with the newspaper as board mem-
refused to distribute it. Donovan' called LaChance,. bers were William J. Casey, now director of the CIA,
and the two metier-the Hotel Algonquin bar. The day and former Secretary of the Treasury Ii