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pe AO Ms AT re etna ear pectal to The New Youk Tunes ‘as a paid police informer insists that certain farmers in the San) Joaquin Valley of California, ordered the sssassi of | Cesar Chaves, ‘the farm union 32 old, old, sad that he nad deed offe $5,000 to partici-\ vere inthe plot and: that ‘he Pag witnessed what. appeared to be the payment of $0, to ary out the assassination ‘Shears, a thin, long: haved man who lives in Baker- fred, offered a series of tape Tecordings end documents that he aid demonerrated the verac:| of his st i Coben chief counsel to, "the United Farm Workers Or-| ganizing Committee, has ex. concern for the safety of Mr. Chavez, who heads the union, and has said that he willl seek a Congressional in- vestigation. ‘Warned by Agents Mr. Cohen said that last July 31 Federal agents secretly ‘warned the union that they had reason to believe an attempt to assassinate Mr. Chavez was be- ing organized. On one occasion Federa! agents were said to have provided protection for ‘Mr. Chavez at @ rally. But last, according to an As- case closed” after the informer ‘was unable to provide any’ proof of a plot. Ser. Chaves bet been a con. con- troversial figure in his union's Jong and bitter struggle le to or _ ganize and raise the wages of the hy ia arms. me ——— The investigation into the. alleged assassination plot was conducted by the Alcohol, To-, ‘bacco and Firearms Enforce-, ment Division of the Internal Revenue Service, an arm of the Treasury Department. Various officiais of the en- forcement division on the West Coast with whom Mr. Shears eaid he bad dealings have de- to comment on the case and have referred inquiries to’ Washington. | On Thursday a revenue serv- ice spokesman in Washington declined comment on the case, eaying, “LRS. bas an estab- dished policy of not comment- on investigations.” inald W. Bacon, now e tax consultant with Gulf and West- em Industries, who until No- veber was Assistant Commis- sioner for Compliance at the revenue cee, Tecalled that there had been -an investiga- tion. He said: “At one time there was a threat on Chavez's life. Some- time in early fall. There was en alleged plot. I authorized pa: ment of an amount that might have included payment to an informant. 1 understood the information wasn't satisfactory and therefore he was not paid. He added, “The attempt was never made on his life. The investigation stopped.” Two key men named by Mr. Shears as participants in the alleged plot have arrested on unrelated charges, and one is ‘a at Neither was sacl oreunizing_an assassi on One was ar- ge an Nor To aom Lt 170 ¥ Informer Says He was Part-of Coast Plot to Kill Cesar” Chavez euveovl . Felt ____ ‘osen Mohr Bishop Miller, Callahan _ Casper —_ Conrad — Dalbey Cleveland Ponder Baty Waikart _ Wallers — Soyars __ Tele. Roon Holmes __ Gandy —_ The Washington Post Times Herald The Washington Daily New The Evening Star (Washin; The Sunday Star (Washingt Daily News (New Yorh) _ Sunday News (New York New York Post The New York Times The Daily World — The New Leuder i a The Wall Sucot Journal ‘The National Observer __ People's World Date JA N2. 197; JOSE 1123 5A} tr * 12 1972 Pe gate §