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UNION LE- OER CORPORATION

M- NC I-<ESTER , N. H. 03105

ARE- COO£ l i o 0 l f > 4 3 2

Mr. Beranrd Fensterwald

4036 North 27th Street

Arlington, Va.

Dear Bud:

Nl:W H MPSHI RE SUNDAY NEWS

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WILLIAM LOEB

PRU IDEioiT ANO P UBLI6H£R

January 3, 1968

I am enclosing a cl ip from our Sunday News edition of Dec. 29

which you will be interested in no doubt. I t r ied to word the story

so as noy to hurt the release you wil l be handing out.

By the way, before you leave your present position i f there i s

any information on Walter Sheridan I would l ike to get some dope from

i t . I plan to do a series o ~ s tori es on Sheridan and hi s activi t i e s

as soon as possible. This is one guy I wish to unmask i f possible.

Also, I was wondering about one item, you mentioned you had a

couple of affidavits concerning some menbers of Congress who had ac

cepted donations for making speeches on the floor for the Teamsters.

Is there any chance of seeing these affidavits or do they have to be

l e f t in the fi les? I f Kennedy is going to take over your c o ~ i t t e e Ihate to think what he would do with these items.

I hope to be in vlashington either this coming week or the next.

At tha t time I will bring thesx tapes on the CI down with me for you

to hear. The name of the person who made the tapes wi l l be on t hem so

we can check her out a t that time. The n ~ ~ e is Dr. Setna Rogers and i t

was her mother who works in the decoding section of the Hungarian and

Rumanian section.

Hope you had a nice holiday and maybe '6 9 will t reat us a l l a

l i t t l e better .

Best regards,

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'While workin g in the Watergate Democ rat ic headquarters in Washington , Lewis discovered a t ape recordingwhich app arently belonged to Walte.r Sheridan, a campaign consulta nt who shared an office wi th Frank Ma.nkiewicz.

Sheridan was a forme r me.mber of the J ustice Depar tment's Criminal Justice Division who p ar ticipa t ed inthe prosecution of Jimmy Ho ffa on charges of jury tamperin g.

Sheridan says the is a conversation be tween

Arthur Eagap, a reporter for the Manchester Union Lea der , and Edward Grady Par tin , a former teamste r officialwhose testimony was pivitol in Hoffa's conviction .

When Bobby Lewis listened to the tape he said h e heard

Eagan implicating the President, John Mitchell and othersin a scheme to help Partin avoid conviction in a fed eralindictment.

This reporter has listened to the tape and it confirms

Lewis' story. Eagan now claims the tape was compiledfrom several conversations.

Bobby Lewis had no way of deterrning if the chargeswe re true so he began a year-long trek distributing copiesof the tape like falling autumn leaves to lit erally hundredsof news reporters.

Most reporters felt tha t Eagan 's charges were hot air .But, there is a story. Perhaps not in the tape, but in thecharges and counter-<:harges that keep recurring when

the story of the tape is investigated.The story revolves around the conviction of Jimmy

Hoffa on charges of jury tampering. The justice Depart

ment under the direction of Bobby Kennedy was engaging in a series of cases against Hoffa when Edward GradyPartin, a former Teamster official from Louisiana, stepped forward and said that in one trial Hoffa tried to in fluence jurors. Walter Sheridan was a member of theJustice Department's Hoffa strike force for the jury tampering trial.

Partin, however, was also allegedly involved in ac tivities that later resulted in a fedetal indictment against him.Arthur Eagan, in the course of covering the story of

Partin's indictment, became convinced that Partin hadcommittee perjury in the testimony which convictedHoffa.

Eagan says Partin was coached on his courtroom testimony by employees of the Justice Department, indu<imgWalter Sheridan. There is no doubt that Bobby Ke nnedyand the justice Department were extremely eager to obtain

a conviction against Hoffa.Sheridan denies everything and charges Eagan with try

ing to influence Partin to change his test imony so that

Hoffa might be released f rom jail.Sheridan observes that the M:mchester Union Leader

was the recipient of a S2 million loan fr om the TeamstersUnion pension fund . The loan apparentl y went to cover

heavy debts. Sheridan feds Eagan's stories stem from this

rela tionship be tween th e Teamsters and th e newspaper.Eagan claims Partin was shielded from convictio n o nth e federal ind ic tment in return for his Hoffa testimony .Partin was never convicted of the charge .

None of this material is particularly new. These storieshave been circulating for years with repeated charges anddenials fro m all involved. But now the Watetgate panel isstirring up th ese earlier stories, becmse into thtS mterplayover Hoffa's release and the Teamsters comes the 1972 reelection campaign.

Testimony before the Watergate committee is now beginning to link together some of the same figures in theearlier controversy.

Two weeks ago Arthur Eagan appeared before th eWate rgate committee to testify about the transcript of theLewis tape , as well as information gleaned from othertapes in Sheridan 's possession which appeared in a bookSheridan wrote about the Hoffa case.

Most importantly, the committee was interested instories Eagan had published concerning CREEP and theTeamsters .

Although Eagan testified in a secret session, ja ck Anderson revealed parts of his testimony in a Friday, Nov .23 column. While Eagan will not comment about his testimony, he claims Anderson may have actual transcriptsfrom the committee.

According to Anderson, Eagan testified that Teamster vice presidents and other Teamster bigwigs were ordered to kick in $1,000 each toward a $175 ,000 warchest for President Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign.

ln its Nov . 26 issue, Newsweek magazine quotes j immyHo ffa as saying he, too , had heard of the $175,000 figureand added he fel t the Teamste rs Union had contributedfar mo re t o the re-election camp aign than was officiallyrep orted.

Hoffa further said th at friends of the Teamsters in LasVegas, who had borrowed money from the union, werealso approached to fund the re election war chest . According to Eagan's testimony, those friends were Las Vegascasinos.

One reason Hoffa may be substantiating these char ges

is revealed ·in further testimony by Eagan. According tothe Union Leader reporter, the original documents detailing Hoffa's prison commutation by Nixon containedno mention of restrictions on Ho ffa 's future role withinthe Teamster s.

It should be noted that the Teamsters during the lastfew years have been engaged in a power struggle betweenthose officials still loyal to Hoffa, and those owing allegiance to the present union leadership.

When the final commutation papers were released, theycontained a provision barring Hoffa from working with

the Teamsters untill980 . f his is true, the White Howedouble-crossed Hoffa while publicly reaping the politicalbenefits from his release. Bitterness over these allegeddirty tricks  could account for Hoffa's willingness to

talk.

Stories floating around Capitol Hill imply that theTeamsters and their friends may have provided over$500,000 to the White: House in return for Hoffa's release - and the provision preventing him from returningto lead the Teamsters.

Whatever pDrtion of this bizarre story is finallyproven to be true depends on the ability of the Watergatecommittee and their investigators to pierce the almostimpenetrable wall of silence thrown up by most of theparticipants in the sordid tale:

The story leads off in manv directions. What ties it

all together is the struggle over Hoffa, Arthur Eagan andthe Watergate scandal.

The National Lawyers Guild is looking into the charges__in_connection with a proposed suit-asking that the 197 2

elections be declared invalid. The y have already had longconversations witil Bobby Lewis.

The story is indeed complex, many of the charges maynot be substantiated. But as one person involved in the

Waterga te investigation said , there is something thereand we are lo oking in to it.

Ch i p Berlet Is Washington co rrespond llnt for Co l lege Press Service.This story was wr it ten especially for T he Dally Rag and Is co py -r ite 19 73   b y Co ll ege Press Service.

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:• -   i r tTRANSCRIPT OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATION

AND EDWARD GRADY PARTIN (P) ON M Y 19, 1971, RECORDED BY WAL ER

SP.ERIDAi-1 S)

E: Hel lo .

P: ~ +-i 'S. Eagan?

E: Yes, Ed, how you doing?

P: Well , I don t know, what s going on?

E: Chr i s t , I was beginning to t h ink you were dead. Couldn t f ind

you.

P: Well , you know, I was gape looking fo r my boy. He got a little

a little binge .

E: Ahh, he did?

P: Yeah.

E: You have those problems too , huh?

P: Yeah. .·E: I guess we a l l do with our k ids , God damn it no mat te r how hard

we t r y , it ge ts screwed up somehow.

P: Look, I w a ~ wonder ing, you know, you t o l d me in abdut 20 days

. t he y r e gonna, · t he y r e going to ask fo r a cont inuance on t ha t th ing .

E: Yeh.

E Yeah I know· llul Lhcy r c ~ L L l l not r n o v _ l n t on 1 t., uon L worr ·y , J.L c

not gonna e;o to t r ia l. Now t h i s we know. Hey, a , vJhat I v1as

t r y ing to reach you fo r , .Ed, · I d o n t know who the h e l l i s doing

it but a Nick Morrisey from the , a , J o in t Council Ten here in Mass.

P: Uh huh.

E:.came up to a n ~ h e s t e r Monday with a couple men and they were

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pre t ty dis turbed .

P: bou t what?

E: A Vice Pres ident on the Execut ive Board , a B il l McCartney, one o f

those who has re fused to s ign a reso l ut ion backing Jimmy [Hoffa ]

r Oh, I see, I don   t know him.

E: Yeah, well , he has been pu t t ing out a l l over the Teamsters Counci l..

tha t you, Mike Epste in , Walter Sher idan, and Teddy Kennedy met

somewhere Monday and had a meet i·ng and made an agreement t h a t

Teddy s gonna ge t you out o f the th ing -in But te .

P: I haven L even seen o r heard o r . . .

E : I know, I know, but t h i s . i s being put a l l over the , a l l over the

Jo in t Council . · So Nick c a l l e d me and a , and a couple o f guys in

St . Lou i s ca l l ed me , a guy from Det ro i t ca l l ed me and I sa i d ,

look, i t   s not t rue , d o n t worry about it, it s not t rue .

P: I walked back in t h i s house about 4 o c l o c k t h i s af te rnoon .

E: Yeah , wel l , a , you t a lked to Audy·[Murphy]?

p: NL •·

E: Well , he was looking fo r you.

:P: I t r i ed to c a l l him .

P: ou see, I t r i ed to c a l l him and Da l ton LSmit.;h] both> b oth Saturday

and Sunday .

E: Yeah .

P: I c o u l d n t ge t e i t h e r one o f them.

E: Yeah, they were t ry ing to ge t you too . I know Audy was, I d o n t

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know about Dalton.

P: Uh huh.

E: But uh, it uh however, what I was gonna say, he c a l l e d me

l a s t night a t quar t e r to twe lve , and I t o ld him , Nope, I s a i d ;

I th ink he went up to the auto races in Alabama, and I sa id I

th ink h e s probably still up there .

P: See , what happened was, a , one ot my bes t f r i ends , Buddy B ry a n t s a ,

brother got k i l l ed .

E Yeah.

P: Something in a auto , in a car wreck up t he re .

E: Yeah, oh boy.

P: They j u s t bur ied him yes terday.

E: Yeah , we ll you see , everybody s been pu t t ing out a l l kinds o f ru -

mors, a , I a l so to ld Audy about another one · t ha t , a , came to me,

a , some guy by the name o f Greenspun

P Vlho

E: in Las, Greenspun in Las Vegas, who s a l l s ewed up fa r an a f f a da v i t

tomorrow in Las Vegas and t ha t he was going to hand: d e l i v e r to

Jack Anderson so Jack could have the scoop on it and a l l t h a t

horse sh i t .

P: Green , what was his nam.e?

E: Greenspun.

P: I never heard o f him.

E: No, a , Audy - - I never did e i t h e r , Audy sa id he s some kind o f a

e d i to r o f the paper in Las Vegas. I t o ld him, n o p ~ I sa id t h e r e s

no such th ing going on.

P:See, wel l , 1 j u s t came in , my boy , wh t happened was they got , t h ey.

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wanted him to cut his hai r , he got in an r g u m e n ~ over tha t

t h ing , then he got in t rouble wi th ·a speedin t i c k e t ~E: Ha, ha, ha.

P: so he takes off Monday, and we c a n t f ind him nowhere.

E: You haven t found him yet?

P: No, and then, a ,

E: Oh, sh i t .

P: Then B ar re t t s bro the r got k i l l ed .

E: ow old was he?

P: Sixteen .

E: Ahh . . . h e l l , h e l l come home.

P: And I v e been everywhere in the world.

E: Yeah, well , I wouldn t doubt he might be s t a y i ~ r igh t the re in

Baton Rouge w i t ~ one of h i s f r i e nds and

P: No, we had. a l l the r e l a t ives looking fo r him.

E: Oh yeah?

P: They cou ldn t f ind him .

. E: I ll be damned. Well, I hope the he l l you can f ind ,h im.

P: I t r i ed , when it f i ~ s t came up I t r i e d to get hold of Dalton and

t e l l him I d be out of pocket .

E: Yeah.

P: 1\nd, a , I haven t to ld , I wi5h you d c a l l up those fel lowo and t o l l

them I haven t even, I never saw, a

E: No, I v e al ready t o ld him t ha t . I v e a l ready t o ld h i ~ , put the

sca r f on t h i s . Chr i s t , a l l these people are d o ~ n g ~ s br ing out

these rumors, t ry ing to c rea te dissent ion among everybody.

P: ~ v e seen, a , Teddy Kennedy one t ime in my l i f e , t h a t s

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.E: Yeah.

P: when he was speaking a t the AFL-CIO convent ion .

E: Yeah, wel l , shi-t on a l l of them, t h a t s the way I look a t it

Inc identa l ly , I have a m e s ~ g e from the man [Hoffa] for you.

P: Uh huh.

E He wanted to , he was brought out Saturday night to me cause I

went up . to Lewisburg with Browny ' and he saw him Saturday and he

a l s o saw him aga in Sunday.

P Urn hmm.

E And Ole Jim t o l d me he wa'nted to tell you Thank you. It seems

t ha t when t ha t order , a , · running h i s sent ences , a , concur ren t ly

P Urn hmm .

E: o r consecut ively , r a the r

P Yeah.

E: from Josephine and she was pre t ty bad of f , I guess , Tuesday. So

then , a , when she found out what you had done and · a f t e r I t a lke d

to Judge Wilson, it bo l s t e red her up a he l l of a l o t , and she

c a l l e d , a , Jim and the doc to r to ld Jim on the phoner - h e s a l lowed

to c a l l her from the p r i son once a day

P: Oh, t h a t s good.

E: and she, a , she to ld him t ha t she wanted ~ i m to run .aga in .

P h huh .

E: · S( then when Br·u my cau c ou t , he , he [ l lo f l a] t o ld we t..hal, he

to l d Browny to t e l l me to give you a m e s s ~ c and says th a nkG

very much, h e l l remember you when he ge ts out . So I d o n t

•know any more than t h a t , a , I know t ha t Judge Wilson has ordered

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the Jus t ice Department to take care of i t . I was ther e when

it happened and he, a, said tha t nOthing you o r J ud ge Daniels ,

are not to be s ub je c t to in t i midation by anybody. This is what

he inst ructed th i s guy Bower s . And he said yo u are to receive no

harassment or in t imida t i on f r om anybody.

P: You see when , a, what posi t ion I m in . I ve got to have tha t

continuance next week.

E: Yeah, a l l r igh t , who do you want?

P: Well, the thing i s , i f it s not going to court I don  t need one

but I don t

E: But I me an , j u ~ t a, wh o   do you want to t a lk to anyway?

P : Well , r e l l ~ no one , you know, i t it s not go ing to court . . .

E: Yeah .

·P : I l..on  t need i t .

E We re not going to worry about the Houston, t:f Ei-rtt;.-..:. t h a t s ou t the

window and th i s other thing [ in Bu t t e ] wil l be out the window too

because they   ve already t ransfe r red Judge Murray up here to

Boston. He  l l be here · and , and, a , presiding over the grand jury

for the next 180 days .

P: Oh, I see .·

E: And some guy by the nam e of Edward Harrigan i s handl ing it up here

Boston, and, a , and j. t w a ~ put ou t o the w:Lre the ot.;hcr· cia.v

that u d ~ e Murray would be here for 180 days .

P: : Do I know who it i s?

E: He came up here, a , well , i t d be a week ago T h u r s d ~ y . . . we l l , a

week ago tomorrow . .·.

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P : Hmm .

E: t ha t he came up ... and h e l l be here fo r 180 days, he -announced

it to the press , and it went out on t he wire tha t h e l l be up

here for 180 days. So he c a n t be here and in But te too .

P: Do you thirik he might put it in , what h e s got over t he re of f

and take i t of f from But te , do you?

E: No, I d o n t th ink s o , I d o n t t h in k so , no. We ve got peop l e

working on t h i s l i k e crazy down in Washington: . .

P : rn hmm.

E: and t he bo3s [Wil l iam Loeb] was down in Washington yes te rday .

He s going back down aga in Fr iday morning.

P: Did you, when w i l l you be t a lk ing to him again?

E: Gee, I don t know, he was gonna c a l l me but he   h a s n t ca l l ed me .

•t o l me he was _going to be s tay ing a t the Deseret [ s i c ] Inn

because he s got a couple o f f i gh t e r s , I guess , going t on igh t

in some kind o f a bout down t he re or something. Or a t l e a s t

t h i s i s what he i nd ica ted . He t o l d

P: But what I want to know i s about when he  ll be back ., . so I d o n t

know when to c a l l him.

E: Well , why d o n t you c a l l him a t t he Desere t Inn?

P: I wonder what t ime I ... a f t e r the f i gh t , I suppose .

.· .o Yeah, I d o n t · l<n0\ 1 what; t:Lm0 l.;hcy t ~ c t over .

: About 10 or 11 o c   o ~It/ Yeah, somet imc around t he re . Because he was want inc; to kn ow if

we were going to meet in Dal las . I t o ld him , Jees , I d o n t know ,

I h av en t been ab le to · ge t a hold o f Ed. Because Audy .was hoping

we could ge t toge ther in Les t e r May s of f ice .

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P: Oh, I see. You see , I v e been th inking , I t r i ed to ge t to him

fo r two days.

E: Yeah, well Judge Wilson i s gonna s tand for no shenanigans. He

ins t ruc ted both s ides r i gh t the re , and, or , a , the re were u the r

people there , the , a , U. S. Marshal l was t he re , the cour t c l e rk

was there , the proba t ion o f f i c e r was the re , a , Bowers was t he r e ,

Anderson was t he re , Matt Loke [?] and, a , he to ld both s ides

to immediately check i n to t h i s , he sa id , a , o ~ Brown to do it

And, a , so I . t o ld him t ha t , I t o ld him you were being harassed

andeverything

e lse bySheridan

andEpste in

and he sa idI

w ~ n ts tand for tha t from anybody in. my cour t , and he to ld Bowers to

·make damn sure tha t you weren t harassed r in t imidated and he

wou ldn t s tand still for it

P: I wonder who s pu t t i n t ha t rumor out about ·me ge t t ing t oge the r

with a l l those people and makin a degl .

E: I d o n t know. Now, Dick Morrisey got it from t h i s William

McCartney. Now William McCartney i s one of the Vice Pres iden t s

who was down in Hollywood, Flor ida a t the Execut ive Board..

P: Do you know how many went agains t him the re?

E: As f a r as I can see , a, . Fitzsimmons, a , i s making pr iva t e deals .

Nobody r ea l l y went a g a i n s ~ him a t the Hollywood meeting .

. p: . Oh .I nee

But a ~ i t z s i r n r r t o n s s cnaking pr iva te d e a l ~ with each ind iv idua l

guy so tha t the other d o e sn t know what the he l l he s doing, see?

P: rn hmm

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Board

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because he pul l jE: NoN a Morrisey shook up the whole Execut ive

a f a s t one. He pul led the whole meeting of the Jo i n t Counci l in

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Boston.

P: m hmm

E: And t ha t by a unanimous vote a l l the members voted to suppo r t

Hoffa for pres ident , in or out of the pr ison .

P: Oh, I see .

E: So t h i s shook up the wh ol e goddam convention. They didn ' t know

whether to 3hi t or go blind , you know? So when they ca l l ed me , a ,

some guy by the name of Daley ca l l ed me from HollywooC., Flor i da . . .

P: Urn hmm .

E: and he sa id do you th ink Ed Par t in i s t e l l i ng you the t r u t ~ and

I said , yes I d ~ I sa id I m pos i t ive he ' s t e l l i ng me the tru th .

Hell , he sa id 11 God damn it, then I th ink I ' ll go along with Hoffa .

P: Well I ll be d arned.

E: And , h e saic. l , Ch r i s t , he said , a , i f Pa r t i n ' s te l l in g the t ru th , he

sa id , w e ~ l l swi ng a l l in behind him . So th i s i s as much as I know .

And I know t hey ' r e try i ng to make , a , tha t Fitzsimmons · i s t ry ing to

make pr iva te deals to get himself e l ec ted .

P: See , I haven ' t t ~ l k e d to anyone ·a t a l l , because I have seen what

. .he has to ld me i s conf ident i a l , unt i l the t r i a l in ~ o u s t o n I

wouldn ' t say noth in ' .

E: Yep , yep .

P : I ' been dodEj_ng the a t torney [ G i l e J . n ~ h o u s in New O r J c a n ~ , you

know , j u : ; t .in GiJ; ;c , a , J (;) caL led :.t cuup.l.c u l Li.111 •:::, IHJI. 1 di<i11

• t

E:vcn c a l l h .im bac k .

·E : Yep , wel l he ' s been, a -h e ' s been clucking rne becau::;e I CQ l lccl him

the othe r day a nd I c o ~ d n get to h im , I t a lked t ~ a BUY by the

name ·or Car r i e r , and, a , he s one of Gi l einghouse ' s as s i s t an t s .

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P : U  hmm.

E: And I sa id what i s the s t a tus o f the t r i a l ? Well , _ ~ ·s a id , I

don  t th ink y o u r e any f r i end o f ours . Well , I says , why?

P: Hmm

E: Well , · he says, Chr i s t , you ask for pro t e c t i on fo r a man w e r ~ t ry ing

to prosecute . I s a id , you c o u l d n t give him protec t ion from

Sher idan and Epste in , could you? - · so I sa id , we had to t ake the

s t eps . . .

P: Hmm

E: and I sa id we went to the Pres ident of the United St a t e s . Now

you t ake your ord e r s from him Well , he says , I d o n t t h i n k I

want to discuss anyth ing more with you _ and he hung up the phone .

P: Well , I ll be darned.

E: But t hey re , t h e y r e r e a l l y b u l l s h i t , b ~ c ~ u s e we went to Nixon and

asked fo r it.

P: Well , I does Judge Murray seem to be a l l r igh t? .

E: Hah?

P: Does Judge Murray seem to be a l l r i gh t ?

E: I t h ink he i s . I t h ink he   s a l l r i gh t . I th ink h e s , I t h ink

h e l l be good. I d o n t . th ink you ve , I d o n t th ink you ve got

to worry there . I mean a ~ o t of p e o ~ l e wonder why the h e l l I went

out -to Btlttc, ~ o n t a n a Hell , I don   t l<nuw wh_y t h 8 l1C JJ. I wr:n t

t i Jcrc c l t h 0 r , uul it uoesn ' t mlllce l lny d l f l urunt;c ru; ; . l ly whc1 ·c: Lhu

h 2ll it i s , you know, one th ing s a11ot-her. But a t · · t.._ , , r -ne I 1 rs -

·.t ime in , a , I th ink in seven year s , you re s i t t i ng r i g h t plunk in

the d r iv e r s sea t as f a r as these people a re concerned.

P: Well , he, he i s ·over in , a , Boston?

E: Yep, yep. I , a , in fac t I can send you the , .a

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P: No, I don ' t want t ha t .

E . I> I ~ o t the t e l e ... , hov1 I lmev1 h was here i s when I v1as in on

t he , a , wire room watching t he t e l e t y p e s tu f f come in and Ihappened to see it. That ' s the only way I ' d have known he was

t he re r i gh t off the ba t . I ' d o f probably known it in a day o r two,

but he announced it down the re to th e press in , a , Boston t h a t

he was the re for 180 days.

P: Hmm .

E: So t ha t was it.

P: Well , you ve got someone t h a t   s gonna kind o ' be involved ip it

you know, or something . . .

E: Oh don ' t worry, we ' r e gonna keep our eyes r i gh t open. We ' r e not

l e t t i n g any grass grow under our fee t . I mean , you d be su rp r i s e d

how j u s t much; . . You c a n ' t imagine how much work . has been done on

t h i s th ing , pressur ing everybody , and I mean pressure , too .

Because the boss . sent a f l a t - a s s e d l e t t e r to , a , John Mitche l l

and t o ld him t ha t Nixon p o l i t i c a l l y i s in t roub l e and he neecs

s uppor t . And he says I own the bigr,;est newspaper in the s ta t e a nd

we have the f i r s t pre s ide n t i a l primary.

P: Um hmrn.

E l ovJ, he s a id , · i f you expect me to suppor t Nixon, 2_y God , he sa id ,

I expec t s o m t h i n ~ in r e tu rn . And, a , I ' v e never seen t he boss l ay

t on t he l i n e l : ikc t ha t lo anyl>od.v. nut l>oy he < : n l a , llc ~ ; u

sen t a l e t t e r to a fe l low by t he name of Peterson down in J u s t i c e .

P: Uh huh .

E : Je su s , he reamed h i s ass

P: What was the r e a c t i o n you got from Nixon? Do you know offhand?

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E: Yes, I lmO\v t ha t Nixon, a - - you remember t ha t· day I t o ld you v e

handed t he s t u f f to Nixon a t q u a r t e r pas t twelve? ·

P : Urn hmm.

E: Well , I d i d n  t f ind it out but t h a t guy Larry Dickerson t he r e in

Baton ...

S: Come in  

E: Rouge found it out . . . ·

P: Hmm .

E: t ha t the White House had t e l e ty p ed over to J us t i c e eve ry th ing th t

we had turned over to them in the White House a t two o c l o c k ,

it was in J us t i c e by two o c l o c k with orde rs from Nixon t ' t ake

ca r e of t h i s a t once .

P Well I 1ll be darned .

E: I didn ' t fin t h i s ou t , I didn ' t know anything about it . You can

ve r i fy t ha t from Larry Dickerson .

P: Hmm

E: Because he s the one who ca l l ed me to ask me what the h e l l we

d id t o , to a s t a r t such an upheaval . So I exp la ined what we had

done . . .

P: Yes.

E: with the people , our people in the White House. He . s a id , Jeez , you

guys r e a l l y pul l ed a f a s t one. So I asked him, I says , how the

h e l l <.lid y ou ( ' jnd i t out '? 011, h e ~ ; a y : ; 1 1 ~ u t r 1· .kn<l :; up j11

Ju::;tic.:e, too .

P: Yeah, he r;ot \- /hitley up the re too , hwm, y e h.

E: Oh, i s t h a t who it i s?

P: Yeah.

E:Oh, w l l then , he would know, see , b

ecause the l e t t e rf r o

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th e White House to , a , J us t i c e anda a , then Whitley wo u l d know .

Tha t 1 s the guy who   s been g iv ing ou a l l the f r i c t i on.; huh?

P: We l l, he and Gileingh ouse .

E Yeah , yeah . Well , Gile inghouse i s a r e a l bu l l s h i t t e rup , I  ll

w

1 you , heh , heh , heh, we r e a lly t.,.is t ed h is goddam t a i l

P : You gonna be i n town a f t e r I c a l l Audy in the morn ing?

E: Yeah, I l l be in the of f i c e in th e mo r ning.

P: Al l r i gh t , t h en I ll ca l l .you in t he mornin g . · What s the t ime

dif ference?

E: I th ink t h e r e ' s only an hou r d i f f erence betwe en , a , you n d ~ a ,

Veg as· ·

P: 0 . K. v/ell I apprec ia t e it. I wan t you to ge·t a , a d ouble c h eck

on t ha t th ing if yo u woul d . .I f you don   t mind ; I   d apprec ia t e i t,

though .

E: Sure , I  l l work on it , Ed.

P: I v e , · I   ve go t to g e t t h e a t t o r n e y to do some t hi ng or e i t he r . . .

E: Yep.

P: And, a , yo u know .

E: Yeah.

P : Don   t s ay anything, I don   t want t o s a y anythin g a t a l l. Thes e

people   ll be over t he re .

E : Ye p, O. K.

P : CauGc.: n u tJo dy cJ. oc w:i ll t ry l . l, , I me an :it ll a: i u lJ c .i n Frl cl   ty .

E: Yeah, a l l r i gh t .

P : Al l r i g h t , I l l t a l k to y ou in the morning.

E : O.K ., I   l l be a t the of f i c e .

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P: Olcee-dokee.

E: Okee-dokee.

P: All r i gh t .

EBye-bye.

S: [ c l ea r s th roa t ]

P: Did t come out a l l r i gh t ?

S : Well I th ink so, I haven t checked for tha t (c lears t h roa t ] , wait

ju s t a second.

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PARTIN n ~ c - . i n ca l l ed the Cuban D:lbassy in x i c o City . ~ 1 I R i \ B A J ,to ld: PAKL'lN t ha t he still hnd no nows for t h e l a t t e r . Duringt h i s ; couvC;rs::ttion, :\IIRAB \L (who a s not in h is of f i c e ) askadPARTIN i the ~ b a s s y · had PARTUt' s address, and P ~ f . T I N sa id hsdid pot know whether h is wife ha-1 l e f t it w i th MIRABAL or not •(Note : Dur ing tho 14 January c o ~ v e r s a t i o n , M i a ~ B A L ind ica tedhe did have PARTIN's address . ) \·/hen :UIR..-\3AL asked P A R T ~ togive ; him h i s address, PARTIN did not ~ a u t to g ive it over the

phone. He sa id he prefer red to c a l l IIF-\D l.L again as he d idno t t a n t them c h e c k i n ~ my mai l o r anyth ing . PARTIN of fe red

to send h i s wife to ~ a x i c o aga in o ~ to ~ o h i r ~ e l f . .I\ 3 . . As t 25 February 1971 t h i s Off' i c e is unaware o f any

s u b s ~ q u e n t contact b a t · ~ e e n PARTir{ and the CUban Da.bassy or

Consula te in Mexico City .

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·ALLEGED 1 ; T ~ : l TO INFLUENCE

../ TES l  I MONY OF EDWf.RD GHADyCpARTINSA EDWARD J . CARNEY, JR .

CH R CTER F C SE_____ '___ ..

New Or l ea ns r epo r t o f SA EDWAHD J . C A R N E Y ~ JR . ,8 / 29 / 68 .

Bureuu l e t t e r to New O rl ea ns1 9/ 5 / 68.

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TJ10y l i lce to a s s e J . ~ t t ha t c e r t a in th ings arc CIA covers ,

o r CIA, th i s , t ha t and the o ther , and Shaw i s supposed to

to h a v ~ a par t in - in a ~ Afr ica l company t ha t was : a CIAf _on t , you lenow.

~ h , i s t ha t r i gh t ?

Y'eh.

I d i d n ' t know about t ha t .

Th a t ' s p ~ r t of the , pa r t of the pu b l ic r ecords , i t ~ inthe paper .

.In the New Orleans paper?

No, it was in t ha t , i n t ha t paper and I th ink it got in

. the New O r l e ~ \ i : . S pape r , I 'm not su re . Wait a minute, honey,I 11 be the re in j u s t a minu.t e . · ·

Sam, your w ife ' s gonna whip you.

rrell, it s j u s t 1 if I am on the phone more than f ive minutesmore, I deserve a whipping.

This uh, you know, t h i s whole th ing . From, uh, the wholeth ing i s t o t a l l y confus in g . And l i ke I say, I l i ke to coverthe s t o r i e s tha t are, well , not comple te ly cut and ctried.But , cu t and dr ied enough. You g o t ~ u r s e l f a newsmaker:O.K.

Right .

The riewsmaker sa ys something.

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EDWARD GRADY PARTIN Bus i ness Agent 9 l oca l 5• r e a m s t ~ r s Union Baton Rouge , Lou  ana 9 vo lun ta r i l y a p p e a r ~ da t t he FBI Of f i c e in New Or lea.ns , lDu is ian.a and madeava :i.lab lr t he fo l lowi ng desc:t•ibed tape r<ecording: ·

Tape m.de by GEORGE WYATF and JIORRI.S B R O W N L E E ~ a ,coJinv.ersation t hat WYATT and BROWNL BE d wi th one ERNEST . ENDY )  L f

o r .ARDY, on June 25p 1968 . ·· -· -\ - · ..  _. ..

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Port1ons of telephone conversat ions bet:weenpar t ic ipants not i n t i f i but bel ieved to

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J.DENT i F IC. ' T\ON OF PARTJCI.Pl :.NT.S

1. Par t c pan t s n o ~ iden t i f i e r l 1 b l 1 e v ~ d ~ ~be GEORGE WYATT, MORRIS BPOWNLEE : an:l F . H ~ EimNDY o r HARDY

(Pages 221 - 233)

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' : ' :1 r e: }) . : ; cos ;l et : : c,

~ f h a t s '"i1a t they t e l l :me .

Aint none 6f them ronna bea t me.

(One ;ive ac a e\3rtain ar.:ount of

to 1 ~ 1 8 .

When t ~ e y t e l l me ~ 1 e ymoney, t h ~ y one. give i ·t

' 1 ' 1 ' } 1 " ' " ' . ~ .i J. ;_'__ T 0 r.lC ( 1. l l ' O'l,•1·10\ - • •· -1:: ,  )H il l i t ?

I don ' t klwii ~ o u g ~ and I d on ' t (i lJ.e g ibJ.c )

t:1cy' J.l &ivc i t ; to me. Cause I a §_one be l o o ~ ~ i n g out fo r

you, you knoH? I k n o ~ ~ 11hcrc I su.nd i f ' I don  t ge t it to

yot , you b 1 o i·Jl'lat I ' n te .l cin g a b o ~ t ?

That  l l give ne and Mor r i s -

This i s ny insurance to :no':/ tha t I m f one get it to you .

I f I don ' t ge t i t ; , they ' s so·mehody eJ.se be t te r be lo oi-: l nt,

ou'c .

rl.·1- .... ·r r cl r· e-'- l 1 S' <.<. v t· . l ' ou'c, · t ~ 1 a t 1 d get us out of th e s t a t e s , too,

'J.'hat'd t:e'c us a l l out of the s t a t e s . l ' light nor,.,, t ha t ' s

what I need . I ' 8 hur t in g .

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IDENTIFICATION FORM--- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY FBI

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ALLEGED EFFORTS 1'0 INFLUE «:E ITESTIMONY O.F EDWARD GRADY PARTIN

I .George owen W t t appeared in tbe ofifice o f the.  i'cderal ureau.of-'lnvest_i _ t -ron, New Orleans, · touis1au,on September 4, 1968, and rnt•bed tbe followlat · ·intormation : · ·

tfr. a t t advised that he was vis l t t s a t tberesidence o f Jim ~ ~ Port Way Aeres, BroWDSv111e, Tezas,on Labor Day, Septe er 2, 1968. Wyatt s ta ted \that J l a ·Ness is an old ·famll friend and tbat ·N•as, b* ( lits beena long-time friend t bls tatb•r , W)'att·u a kaown Ne8asince Wyatt 's cb i l dbood d • . ·. · · . 1

Wya·t t contacted Ness prbaarily because he badheard that Jack S. Martin and Raymond Rutz bad ~ D tryingto convince Ness that Ness a ~ o u l d come to L o u i s ~ o a andfurnish an affidavit to the effoc t tba t ·Wyatt becaae ·involved in: troubles witb · law entorcement ·asenoiea ·onmany occasions whi le Wyatt was a yo ns• boy.

Wyatt stated tbat he knows J as anindividua l who bas assisted both the Lou iana naborM a n a ~ e m e n t COJMtission of Inquiry (LMCI) an Team•ters · LocalNumber 5, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in an lnvestipt lve · · · · ·.capacity. ·Wy•tt s ta ted tbat· be krl01tti Ra,aODcl·· Rtd.J( ,t f :. bean · investigator for tlie L J I C I ·'· · .· · ' · · · · \

Ness informed Wyatt that Martin and Rulz bavebeen telephonica l ly contacting Ness a t bls residf DCe t r

the paftt several weeks and that in these telepboae conversat ions, Yartin has in icated that be and Rulz pos. eae al e t te r proving t ha t i-1 i s invol ved in the assassinationof President John F . Ke ~ . J l y . . ax.d tbat th·ie vetaent ·

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ALLEGED ll"IN)R.TS TO .INFLUE CBTESTIMONY OF ttDWABD GRADY PARTIN

Ness, accordlng to Wyatt, also .advrJartin in his telephone ca l l s b 's wade cl•i s an FBI Agent. On one occnsio · Martin abed ·theNew Orleans telepho-ne nUlllber __§2j · ~ 0 . .Ness, s ta t ingthat this num.ber was ·tho offiee of OSter. ·xar t ininstructed Ness to ca l l Oster to J ~ a k e rrancements relat iveto when Ness would come to New Orleans o u ~ n i a h anatf idav1t; further, that nrr.angemeJlts 'would ~ · ude uponthe arr ival t Ness a t Oster·•s o.ff'lce to bave l tar t in .·Ruiz, and a ruprosentat1ve frOJt . tbe otf ice of\ Orleans Parishl ) is t r ie t Attorney Jim Garrison. litartin a l legedly to ld .Ness tbat i f Ness would not come to New Orleans, tben he

should ca l l O.ster's ofl ico and arrao.gementa W9Uld be made:for Ruiz., l tart in, and a representative 'f l Oi l Garrison's ·of t tee to come to Ness' residence in Drownavi t lo , 70xas,:fo1· the p u : J : p o ~ e o f o b t i ~ i n g o . ~ ~ ~ i ~ a frpi .  ~ ~ ~ · . .

Wyatt s ta ted that be can or:aly assume that Martin ' sreference to a representat ive lrom Garrison's f t f ice 1sexplained by Wyatt's suspicion tba t Martin bas\ been and iecurrently an employee of GarrisoD'a office .

Wyatt, while a t the ~ r o s s res ence on Labor .Oay,-called the residence of .Jnck Sart in in w Orl*ana, telephonenumber 9 4 3 0 8 1 3 ~ ond cha1•ged the telepbo c a l l to W yat t s

personal pbono ;l n New Orleans, nuaber I W:yattident i f ied Hess' telephoDe nuaber as 7 E l ~ 9.

When Martin aaswered tbe telephone a t t , withoutcomment, put Ness on the l ine, and W7att therea te r l is tenedin on tbc c o n v e ~ · s a tiofi by put t ing bis ear close1

\ to therece iver held by 1-less. Wyntt board Martin t e l l Ness tbat

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ALLEGED EFFORTS TO IlU'LUENCETESTIIIOKY OF EDWARD GRADY PARTIN

Wyatt stated be was bringing tbe abovo informationto the attention of the FBI because be fe l t that Martinand. nuiz were possibly impersonating t b e m s e l v ~ s • s lBl

Agents in connection Yitb tba i r te-lephone calil

s to Ness.Wyatt sta ted that in his judgment Martin undoubtedly

is not only working for District Attorney Jim ~ a r r l a o n ,but is also working for the oft iee o the Loulalana StateAttorney Ge.neral and tbr.tt be Wyatt i s eouY1lke4 thatMartin retained this association with tbe oft1ee· of theState Attorney General even during tbe period ltbat t inwas workillg with WJa t t and Teaaatera Local JJaber 5 lDBaton Rouge, Louisiana . I

Wyatt advised that J 1m llesa i s 69 years ot age.and i s. a re t i red pipe f i t te r . I

lfo investigation i s contemplated in couect1oawi th t be abo-l'e matter •

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t;fo-rJfG7

The brazen attempt to spring

Hoffa with a 1 million bribe

case of

by S NDY

SMITH

the hea rt o f every c c e ~ s f u lgangste r  s operation is the Fix

- the work ing arra ngeme nt with

key police a nd elec ted officials and

bus iness and union executives. It

guara ntees the racketeers room to

swing and a certa in am o unt of ac

ceptance in · ·respectable  c i r c l eFor sheer audacity and :-.weep. few

Fixes the Mob has ever undertaken

co uld top a plo t ju st nO\\ unfo ld

ing in New Or leans, w iH:re the

Cosa Nostra is rul ed over by Car

los Marce llo opposile pagt•). Its

hoped- for objective i > Iibert) f6r

...lames Ho iTa. the impriso neuof the Teamsters Union.

Li FE

Th o ugh the governor did no t know

it, Yo ung ha d so me curi o us co n

o uts ide orthe execut ive s ui te.

One of these was Marcello. about

wh ose empire yo u will read more

in next week s instalmen t.

l n Ja nuary, Young up a

meet ing with Part in a t the req uest

of still a nothe r man of innucnce

in o u i ~ i a n a politics,   _ t i mJ?Ublic re latio ns specia list   -ar o unu o perator na mt:d D  A itg nSmith.

Members of Smi th  s fam ily are

\ e1l-pla cc u in Hi s

brother./\. D Smith . is a me mber

or the t a t : board of education.

His Mr s. Frances Pecora, is

a n ollici:ir Bf th e insura nce

m m i s ~ i j Mr s. Peco ra i:-. al  othe wife of ,,fio Pecora. fo rmer

operator o r t h ~ , ; n - · < w n e ~o\\ n an d C.lunt ry Motel in New

Or lean:..

try becau se there s al,,ays lo ts of

Tcamsteoffered

from Lc

cello, at

- an aid

tempt to

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the union. 'om.: 1111hc \l oh .

inboth

-dropp.:d

$2 mill ionin t

na p r i n g - H o T a fund late ' ' ' year.The money wa:-. placed at the di;.po:.al of Cosa Nostra mobster,,

and it \ a ~ to be payable to anyo newho could wreck the gO\ ·ernment 'ju ry-tampering ca\ c on which I lot fa had been conv1ctcJ.

. J n due co urse. ~ • ., ,

mide a\ a iable to Marc, ·llo to do

the jo b. The chief government it

nes > in the tr ial .   hich plm:ein 19 4 in Chatt anooga . had been

_ E d\\ard Grady Partin. leader of aTcam<,ter local in Baton Rouge.

La . As the Mob , aw it , Partinwas a lo1 1cal target for a Fix. I f hecould u ; d e d somch'O\\ torecant hi:. own testimony, or to

taint'' it by c la1ming that wiretaps had been agam ;,t HorTa ,the conviction would ~ ; u r c l y be re

versed. B} last Januar) the Mob

might have assumed that Partin

already had bee n so ftened up . Ac r i e of dynamite e.xplo:.ions had

wrcd,cd construction site s, trucksand oi l-dri lling rigs of co mpan ieswhose employes were members of

Partin's union. Partin go t themes

sage a ll right, but ignored it.Then another pitch was made to

Partin,JJ was arranged by Aubrey

ioung, 4), who for years had been

an a ide and confidant of Louisi

ana Governor John J. McKeithen.

I h e lllc'CIIIIg \\ i l l l l' <lrtln 1\)ll l\

place <It \oun g \ in Batonl{__o ugc. Sm it h \\a;, there when Par

tin a rri\cd .

' •f Ml\ I on had told me he ' 'ant

"ed to sec if he cou ld straighten o utPartin 's testimony to heir Hoffa,

Young ha ' since told L111. \-\henI saw \\hat th e) \ \CIT talkingahout

the pa rl or. I o o ~ a \ \ a l ~ hcc:wo,c I didn ' t wa nt an) part of it.1\l'tcr the meeting. 0'1\lton told

me t hat he couldn't buuge Par

tin; that Partin a i d h i ~ t e ~ t i m o n\1 true. 

ar li n confirmed to I 111 that

t h i ~ inJec t was the u b j e c t of the

c o n v e r ~ a o n . and has audcd t h c ~ cdetaib of the inducements he says

were held out to him : The initia lo ffer for th e changing or testimo ny was $25,000 a yea r for 10

years. Me turned it do11 n. The n t ~was hiked unt il it reached an overa ll total of $1 million. St ill Part111

re fused. When Smith gave it up asa bad job and went away. Partin

ca lled the Ju stice Department.

A short time la ter, Young. who

had been drinking heavi ly, ughtsanctuary for th ree days in the

Io'Wn and Co unt ry Motel. whichis Marce llo 's rackets headqua rters.

Qung has offered this explana

tion: I go to the Town and Co1.111-

}1\Hl \ l I '   ' l l l l : \ \ U U . .... ..... t

M t a l ~ to him . I kno\\ I didn't.

because th ere \\ US a s tate policeman \1 ith me all the time ..

Meanwhile . e ~ p o n ~ c to Par

t i n · call. t he Ju,tice Department

began a n i m e ~ t i g a t i o n into th ebribery a ttemp t. You ng returned

to the capitol at Bahlll Rouge.When the governo r a ' ~ e d him to

explain his a b ~ c n c e . Young blurted out the o r y o t' the au empted

hrihcr)o nf Partin . Furious. Mc

Keithen threatened to lire :1im.

Young ~ i g n c d .A., to what ha-. happened to the

$2 million . Ma rcello. o l coursen · t talking. And Holl'a remain -,

in reJeral pri son

This is a fair e\amplc of the

int r icate forces involveJ in a par

ticular sort of Fi:\. But a r i ,

doc. n't have to enta il an e\cha nge

of money. It ca n be a c c o m p l iby putt ing in rear. th rough means

as unsubtle as a crack over the

head. an arm broken by t\\isting.

an im plied disclosure of famil yskeletons, a hoa rse voice on the

phone, a timely murder. t can bea e c o m p h e d by campaign · 'con

tributio ns or by outnght bribes.I t can be attained through employ

me nt of public relations co unsels

who stress things like the good

name of a city or the amount of

money donated to charity by Mob

entcrpri'c .pa rer • It

charm. ' ' •of I--cy nh l•

ab nut tl11

peop le ~ < l i lmcasura bllike a , ~ ·

wh ose t.t •.\ hi l, -cl

no thing haYet if Jl ,c

his c1y th l

politica l never) ef for

rational ill

much wor-.

tion in con•

dend ofth

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some Marcello henchmen, but

that. says the district attornev. j ,

a coincidence without signitica.m:c.

l l doesn't mean anything."' Gar

rison told LIFE. becaus; 1 ha1c:

no connection with Marcello . Idon ' t have to worry about thin  '

like that. I v cleaned up the rad

ets in this town."'

Garriso n says he knows Maru·l lo 's bookmaking brother Sa mm1- ·· rve seen h i ~ at the c11 Or

leans Athletic Club and Moran 'Restaurant--- but deni.:s l,.no11 111;:

that he is a bookie. Also anwm his acquaintances is Marrl• 1\l.tr;

no. a Marcello lieutenant 11 h

mo ved from New r l e a n ~ It' th'Sands Hotel in Las Vegas I0

ago. When Garriso n g o e ~ to L.J '

Vegas. he is the guest ;r he SanJ ,and Marino makes the arran , c ·

ments.Three times since 196J. the

1

-

'lands has paid Garrison's hotel

htl l. On his last visit in March

th.: tab was signed by Marino him

'c lf. Garrison was also granted a'\.000 credit in the cashier's cage.

11 htrh meant he could gamble up toth.tt amount without putting his

•11 n money on the table. At that

t11ne tho : Sands operated one of four

I · \'.:gas gambling ha lls con

. r . llt:d by Cosa Nostra Bosses.Ci.rrri.,on contends that he didn't

-rttthk •• nd that Mar ino gave him

:k ,,,·drt ~ · ~ h e could cash checks.

I k unable. he told LI FE, to see

• ' ' I thrn   11 n•n_ wi th a prosecutor

.,,.,-l,•;rdrng at a Mob-controlled

' ' ' ' · lie >ard he fdt it was cus'• • a r ~ ft, r cas inos to pick up the1 ··•.1 ta h' Lf public ollicials. 1111. • narvc- thi s is my first pub-

•'11"'- but I don't see what's.,, , •ng ll  thit . hesaid. l imagine

· D. ould hav e a good credit

CONTINUED


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