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...written reports of the IRS agents tell a detailed story. The tale begins in early 1972, when Daley and Dennis met Fitzsimmons and the Pressers at a Teamsters conference in Miami. The meeting was arranged by one Harry Hall, also known as Harry Haller and Harry Helfgot. He is a professional informer who boasts, accurately, that he has ties with the Teamsters, the Government and organized crime; he has also been imprisoned for passing bad checks, impersonating Government officials and grand theft...
...only people who ran into trouble, in fact, were Agents Daley and Dennis. The Justice Department in 1974 indicted Informer Hall on a charge of possessing stolen Treasury bonds, and threatened to indict the IRS agents as co-conspirators-though they protested that they had only been asked by Hall to check the serial numbers on the bonds. The agents composed a memo pointing out that the IRS and the Department of Justice had failed to inform the Senate Watergate committee of their reports about Fitzsimmons' account of his alleged meeting with Nixon. If indicted, they threatened to summon...
...said there had been a deal for the Government to go easy on the Teamsters leader; he also said he had given that information to a House Judiciary subcommittee. The subcommittee, however, never called Hall to testify; probably it was warned by the Justice Department that Hall was unreliable. Daley retired from the IRS in 1977 and Dennis in 1979. Both are living in Southern California...
...finally got a look at the Daley-Dennis reports in 1978, after an anonymous tipster informed the agency that Fitzsimmons and the Pressers had been seen with the IRS agents. The tipster also hinted that the conversations might have had something to do with Hoffa, who disappeared in 1975 and is presumed to have been murdered. The FBI then began an investigation, about six years too late. By then the statute of limitations had expired, so nobody mentioned in the Daley-Dennis reports could be prosecuted anyway...
...Pressers, White House aides, Nixon Administration officials all trooping in; questions about Teamster campaign contributions and 'exchange targets'-it would have been a replay of Watergate. Nobody in the department wanted that." So the FBI investigation wound up last year without results, and the contents of the Daley-Dennis reports remained unknown to the public-until...