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Article: Hoffa Investigation Derailed by Top Brass, FBI Records Show.
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- Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI)
- Article date:
- December 4, 2002
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Dec. 4--Federal investigators accused U.S. Justice Department superiors of derailing the last, best chance of solving the Jimmy Hoffa disappearance in 1978 by refusing to force former President Richard Nixon and Teamsters Union President Frank Fitzsimmons to testify before a Detroit grand jury, newly obtained FBI records show.
Agents said they thought the Nixon White House, with Fitzsimmons' help, had solicited $1 million from the Teamsters to buy the silence of Watergate burglars, the records reveal.
FBI agents and prosecutors hoped Nixon's testimony could be used against Fitzsimmons to force him to reveal how Hoffa disappeared in 1975, or risk going to ...