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‘reat as yellow” --- Ss ' Airtel to SAC, Sacraments NOTE: This is the matter involvine alleged plot to assassinate - . te Cesar Chavez, well-known California group labor organizer. At the . request of CRD, Department, we are conducting a limited investigation. a CRD requested we obtain tapes and other matcrial in possession of one . Jerry Cohen, Chief Coursel, United Farm Workers (UF\W) of which ’ Chavez is the leader. Tapes and materials obtained by our Sacramento Office and have been furnished to CID for their review. Only one copy ' of ten cassette tapes available and pursuant to CRD, they were furnished : directly to CRD along with 374 pages of typed and written material. Tapes ' } and written material obinined fron: JaccuceTevy, a free-lance writer who : interviewed one LarryShears, the orizinal source of the plot against _ Chavez. Levy's interview with Shears wes taped and later partially om, transcribed on 374 pages. Based on Levy's interview with Shears, varivus Officials of United Auto Workers (UA‘Y) and Ui"W contacted our WFO and requested an investigation. Resulis of intervi i i. furnished CRD which subsequently requested 2 to obiain the aforementioned tapes and written mater ials matter. Tapes sent to CRD directly at their r Bureau. Copy of written materials (374 pages transcription of aforementioned tapes was reviewed, reflect interview that Levy, Cohen and his associates 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 ststion, Delano, California, area during , August, 1971. Shears revealed to the TV station that a plot was underway to “* Kill Chavez and that ATFD, and local authorities were ¢ of it but took no action, The transcription of the interview cf Shears by Layy included conversations Shears taped of individuals he alley.ed were involved in the plot and also his telephonic contact with several asenis of AY>D 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 conversations he had with several individuals he alleged were involved in the 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 implicaticn is there”. or "these guys talk in a different language not easily understood by the average i person," Shears’ allegations concerning the plot appear to be a complete | > fabrication and obviously the result of refusal by ATFD to pay him any additiona! money unless he could produce additional information cf the plot against Chavez. Shears; in the transcription, alludes to having contact with an PBI Agent : ower AT sfield, California) in a rogue manner; however, in view of the / ehability and unpredicta soni of Shears, Sacramento being instructed to ito be : a 374 pages basically ith Shears, a resolve the reference to Agent