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To: Charles W. Colson From: Ken W. Clawson RE: What was learned in a conversation with James R. Hoffa. 1pg [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/28/1972
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Memo
To: Charles W. Colson From: Ken W.
Clawson RE: What was learned in a
conversation with James R. Hoffa. 1pg
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Page 1 of 1
THE WHITE HOUSE
HRH
DETERMINED TO BE AN
WASHINGTON
Administrative ARKING
E.O. 12005, Section S-102
August 28, 1972
By
Cmp
6-9-80
CONFIDENTIAL EYES ONLY
MEMORANDUM FOR:
CHARLES W. COLSON
FROM:
KEN W. CLAWSON
KC
Responding to your attached memo, I learned the following
in a conversation this afternoon with James R. Hoffa:
(1) Jimmy says he knows for sure that a book written
by Kennedyite Walter Sheridan will be published this fall
and is undoubtedly the book that is referred to in the
attached memo.
Sheridan, as you know, is the premier Hoffa hater, currently
living in the United States and undoubtedly dwells in a
negative manner on Hoffa's release from prison.
(2) More interesting to me, however, was the fact that
Hoffa is infuriated by comments that Sargent Shriver has
been making about him during Shriver's tour of the United
States. Hoffa tells me that Shriver will be speaking in
Philadelphia next month and that "my boys" will be ready
for him. Specifically, Hoffa told me that he will have
an operative with a bullhorn planted in Shriver's audience.
While Hoffa refused to tell me exactly -- "I don't want
to get you into any trouble" -- what the operative would
say, he did reveal that his man will make news, "that all
of you in Washington will hear about."
When I urged Jimmy to share this information with me,
he again refused on the grounds that "it could hurt the
President if you knew and it could hurt you too. 11
However, Hoffa said that Shriver is no stranger to Las
Vegas where Hoffa has nearly perfect intelligence, and that
Shriver's conduct in Las Vegas proves "he's no lilly."