Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest the theory that another gunman, perhaps firing from a grassy knoll in front of the car, was involved in the assassination. But it is unlikely even now that many Americans, deeply skeptical about official pronouncements and constantly confronted by the dirty linen of the CIA and FBI, will give up their notions of a conspiracy. Showing there was no second gunman, as Connally pointed out, posed a difficult problem: How do you prove a negative...
...have been doing all the dirty work, and the old man has been getting all the gravy." So Stephen Elko reportedly complained to the FBI about his former boss, Daniel Flood, 74, a 30-year Congressman from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and the flamboyant head of the powerful House Appropriations Subcommittee for Labor and HEW. Largely on the basis of Elko's testimony, a Los Angeles federal grand jury last week indicted Flood on three charges of perjury, including one stemming, from a statement he made denying receipt of $5,000 in bribes to help some now-defunct West Coast...
Both writers agree with the FBI that Hoffa's murder was engineered by Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, the heavyhanded boss of New Jersey's Teamsters, who was convicted in June of the 1961 murder of Anthony Castellito, a Teamster hoodlum who had challenged Tony Pro's cut of the rackets...
...reports that also in the car were two of the three musclemen from Tony Pro's New Jersey Teamsters ranks assigned to carry out the killing: Gabriel Briguglio, 36, his brother Salvatore, 47, and Thomas Andretta, 38. Brill, however, does not mention a fourth mobster regarded by the FBI as a prime suspect in the slaying, Thomas Principe...
Though the FBI knows what happened to Hoffa, it does not have a strong enough case to go to court. "We all know who did it," one unidentified Teamsters vice president told Brill. "It was Tony with those guys of his from New Jersey. It's common knowledge. But the cops need a corroborating witness, and it doesn't look like they're about to get one, does it?" The FBI, according to Brill, has been playing a persistent and patient game, trying to get evidence against the suspects on other charges in the hope that...