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( UNITED Si: ATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Washington, D.C. 20535 = January 27, 1972 UNKNOWN SUBJNCTS; CAFSAR CHAVEZ - VICTIM , CIVIL RIGHTS ACT - CONSPIRACY «+ On January 26, 1972, E. IXvoran, Administrative Ly a Assistant to the President of the United Auto Workers (UAW), we telephonically contacted the Washington Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to arrange an appointment to register a complaint of a murder plot to kill Caesar Chavez, prominent spokesman for farm labor workers in California. He advised UAW assistance had been requested by the United Farm Workers (UFY) organizing committee in presenting this matter. An appointment was made and at 4:00 p.m., Stephen I. Schlossberg, "General Counsel, UAW, Detroit, Michigan; Jerry Cohen, Chief ry Counsel, UFW, Delano, California; Paul Schrade, Vestern Region Director, LAW, Los Angeles, California; and Larry S. Shears, tormer informant for the United States treasury Pepartment, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division (ATFD), Bakersfield, California, appeared at the Washington Field Office and proviv.cd the following information: No 2 Koc hige Mr Ios t an “undercover « capacity, Shears was acquainted vith Richard narylvPedigo, caucasian male, date of birth, August 9, 1947, residence 508 Castro Lane, Bakersfield, California, whom he described as a narcotics peddler and arson hit man. In the summer of 1971, Pedigo asked Shears for his assistance in murdering Chavez, for which Pedigo had received a $30,0U0 contract, allegedly from farmers in the Delano, California, area. Shears went along and provided information to ATFD in this regard. Pbedigo was subsequently arrested by the Kern County Sheriff's Department, California, for arson and sale and possession of dangerous drugs, before the plot was carried out. The contract money was allegedly returned to the Delano farmers and the feeling is that the contract has been let to soneone else. Schlossberg intends to personally ) yt the United i td hew J, ef Attachments: 3 poo 5i59% -| hy i7 nM ali ue Ge ttn ay FON tere Rea