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vier 1 ices Airtel to SAC, Sacramento NOTE: This is the matter involving alleged plot to assassinate Cesar Chavez, well-known California group labor organizer, At the request of CRD, Department, we are conducting a limited investigation. CRD requested we obtain tapes and other material in possession of one Jerry Cohen, Chief Counsel, United Farm Workers (UFW) of which Chavez is the leader. Tapes and materials obtained by our Sacramento Office and have been furnished to CRD for their review. Only one copy of ten cassette tapes available and pursuant to CRD, they were furnished directly to CRD along with 274 pages of typed and written material. Tapes and written material obtained from Jacques Levy, a free-lance writer who interviewed one Larry Shears, the original source of the plot against Chavez. Levy's interview with Shears was taped and later partially transcribed on 374 pages. Based on Levy's interview with Shears, various --~-officials of United Auto Workers (UAW) and UFW contacted our WFO and requested an investigation, Results of interviews with these officials furnished CRD which subsequently requested a limited investigation, namely, to obtain the aforementioned tapes and written materials available in this matter, Tapes sent to CRD directly at their request and not reviewed Ly Bureau. Copy of written materials (374 pages) which appear to be a transcription of aforementioned tapes was reviewed, The 374 pages basically reflect interview that Levy, Cohen and his associates had with Shears, a former informant for Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division (ATFD), U, S, Treasury Department during December, 1971, as a result of Shears revelations to a local television station, Delano, California, area during August,°1971. Shears revealed to the TV station that a plot was underway to kill Chavez aad that ATFD, and local authorities were aware of it but took no action, The transcription of the interview of Shears by Levy included conversations Shears taped of individuals he alleged were involved in the plot and also his telephonic contact with several agents of ATFD and local and state authorities (police). The transcription is a rambling, disjointed account of Shears’ contact with ATFD and his associates, Levy's efforts to pin down Shears : for concrete evidence were fruitless, The tape recordings Shears made of F conversations he had with several individuals he alleged were involved in the a plot were worthless as no mention or admission by these individuals were made. ‘ Shears only reply to Levy when this point was raised was "the implication is there". or "these guys talk in a different language not easily understood by the average person," Shears' allegations concerning the plot appear to be a complete fabrication and obviously the result of refusal by ATFD to pay him any additional money unless he could produce additional information of the plot against Chavez. Shears, in the transcription, alludes to having contact with an FBI Agent (Bakersfield, California) in a ¥6gi@ manner; however, in view of the _ unreliability and unpredictability of Shears, Sacramento being instructed to wa SH resolve the reference to Agent ae J Dinmaiad Ms) we tet rete, LT eg ae re por oe: 5 , ra mote le oe eat Row Ted: