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i , ane ee Antes tenner i a ee t i ft gp a SSS pS penn, ! CAD Se e A te Made war ‘ aa a) * FD-302 (REV. FF-27-70) é 3 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION * 4/2/74 Bote of tronscription JERRY COHEN, Chief Counsel, United Farm Workers (UFW), Keene, Califormia, was contacted during the morning of Merch 28, 1974, and furnished the following information: On Thursday, March 21, 1974, he received a tele- phone call from a male individual who said "You will know me as FRED SCHWARTZ" and indicated he was from San Francisco, California. SCHWARTZ seid he had some valuable information to sell concerning break-ins of UFW offices, churches, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and certain individual residences. A meeting was scheduled for 3:00 p.m. March 25, 1974, at the Hilton Hotel Bar in Bakers- field, California, and SCHWARTZ told him to “come alone’. On Monday, March 25, 1974, at about 3:00 p.m. he met SCHWARTZ et the Hilton Bar in Bakersfield, he (COHEN) was accompanied by a friend, DAN LAVERY, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney who resides at 307 Jeffrey Street, Bakersfield. LAVERY was not introduced to SCHWARTZ as his friend, but merely preceeded him, COHEN, into the bar, to act as a witness. At this meeting SCHWARTZ had in his possession a file or folder approximately one inch thick which he said contained stolen UFW or UFW related documents. SCHWARTZ advised that these documents and papers were a sample of others that were accessible to him which were taken in connection with various "robberies" or "from inside” UFW by an informant, all at the direction of two Cali- fornia growers. SCHWARTZ made the statement that he repre- sented a man who is to be indicted on March 29, 1974, for fraud, no city or state mentioned, and he, SCHWARTZ, owed this man a favor. At times SCHWARTZ referred to the man as his client, the thief, and at other times he mentioned his clients, indicating more than one person. beterviewsed on 3 28 74 ine File # = Pa Ra\s y- — HEFT by aA Dote dictated 5 Thin document coniging neither recommendations nor conclveions of the FBI i ie the property of the FE end is loaned © your agency, Ho ond itt contents are pot to be ditttibuied euttida your ogenty.