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Form DJ~ : (eo A, . ” 4 . * unirep states cot | 3NMENT {| SEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Memorandum to —_; Director pate: MAR 281974 “Federal Bureau of Investigation JSP:WLG:ljr J. Stanley Pottinger FROM :Assistant Attorney General DJ 144-11E-NEW Civil Rights Division R JO SUBJECT: 3 « R\ Unknota nited Farm / Worker U Jerry Counsel-Complainant A i: Rights a¢ CIVIY RIGHTS re PROC, 37 “MAR.29 1974 On Wednesday, March 27, 1974, this Division was contacted telephonically by Jerry Cohen, counsel in California for the United Farm Workers Union (tel. 805-822-5571). Cohen related that he had been ~~ contacted by a person who provided the fictitious name of "Fred Schwartz". Schwartz purported to have infor- mation that three people had at numerous times over the past several years broken into various United Farm Worker Union offices in ‘California, as well as the offices of other organizations assisting the UFWU and their activities, including SNCC and the Saul Alinsky j Organization. Cohen received the impression that Schwartz was an attorney and was representing one of the persons responsible for the break-ins. Schwartz wanted $35,000 for evidence he would providg linking P EXP numerous California growers to t eakfins. Cohen met with Schwartz on Monday, Mar > 197%, g2.Ef005 Bakersfield to discuss the ma \é fh GPaE8 provided Cohen with brief gli} crials in his broken into. Schwartz also provided a list of such places, including a UFWU office in Delano called Filipino Hall. Cohen related that Filipino Hall was in fact the object of an armed robbery last year and that the crime had never been solved. Among the. Qork Sc 16 ae HAY 7 - mms Bein ae ary { possession purporting to have b cS from offices