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Cesar Chavez — Part 16
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E, -Agent Sees Plot.{
Kill Ces
sar F Chavez |
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23
(AP)—The California attorney
general has been asked by the
state AFL-C1O to Investigate
an alleged plot ot kill Cesar
Chavez, bead of the AFL-CIO
United Farm Workers Organ-
izing Committee.
The execullve secretary of
the California Labor Federa-
og, John F. Henning, said
W@inesday he had sent a tele-
Sram to Atty. Gen. Evelie J.
| Younger saying:
:|farm lador organizer and to
‘j tally disclosed his cover. |
“Cesar~ Chavez has ‘been
obliged to live with lights illu-
minating the area of his house!
at night and with police dogs
guarding against antiJabor in-
truders.
“We therefore formally re-
quest your office to investi-
gaje the alleged Chavez death
pl rted last weekend by
‘Shears, a former under-
er t for the US. Treas:
ir partment» “i
ears, 36, told a tele: sion
inte NOEMIE Bakerete!
Calif. that be was paid pa
lasf Oct. 4 by the Internal
Revenue Service’s Alcohol, To-
bacco and Firearm Division to
provide information about a
plot to kill ‘the 4¢yearold
2
burn records in the union!
headquarters . near Bakers-
Geld.
He said he was promised!-
10,000 if he could substanti-
jate bis claim but was thwarted
when the government acciden-|:
Mel Warner, West Coast!;
chief IRS enforcement officer,
said Shears was paid $500 but
the government now “consid.!
ers the case closed” because|:
jhe failed to provide the
needed evidence.
it UFWOC ofticiaf say’
they are taking the régoried
plo} seriously. They} say
Chmez was being gubrded
rouad the clock.
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