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...book, written in the months preceding his July 30 disappearance, leaves little doubt about what happened to Hoffa. His indictment against Fitzsimmons includes funneling union benefit funds to the Mafia, and "Fitz's" conspiracy with John Dean and Charles Colson to attach restrictions on union activities to his parole. In the epilogue, Oscar Fraley, Hoffa's transcriber (I don't believe ghostwriter), quotes Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano, the ex-Teamster official and Mafia member: "Jimmy was...is...a friend...
...interview with TIME Correspondent David Beckwith, Hunt, who is serving a 2½-to 8-year sentence at Florida's Eglin Air Force Base prison camp for his role in the Watergate breakin, gave his version of the plot. According to him, former White House Counsel Charles Colson suggested that Anderson might be discredited if he appeared on his live radio program under the influence of a drug that would cause him to ramble incoherently. With another Watergate conspirator, G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt set up a lunch with a physician who worked...
...just another wild idea that never got beyond the proposal stage," said Hunt. "Liddy and I engaged in a fact-finding mission, not an operation." For his part, Colson angrily denied he had ever heard of such a plan. But Howard Hunt, busy last week assisting in the cleanup at the prison camp after Hurricane Eloise, tried for the last word. Said he: "I simply followed orders...
...Dwight Chapin has landed a job as vice president of W. Clement Stone Enterprises, the family firm that directs the financial affairs of one of Nixon's chief campaign contributors. Chapin has lost one appeal of his perjury convictions and may soon enter prison. White House Aide Charles Colson served six months in prison, has been disbarred, and is now writing about his spiritual conversion for a publisher of religious books. Nixon Attorney Herbert Kalmbach, who spent six months in prison, is fighting against disbarment in California. He has already been suspended, but he has ample income from real...
...most persistent suspicions is that the CIA helped engineer the murder of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem when he was overthrown in a military uprising in 1963. No solid evidence of such a tie has been found, and indeed Watergate Criminals Charles Colson and E. Howard Hunt, a former CIA agent, tried to fabricate cables linking the death to orders of President Kennedy when files at their disposal turned up no such evidence. But TIME has found credible sources who insist that the CIA was involved in assassination plots against at least three figures...