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...agents searching a New Jersey dump uncover the body of Rep. Hale Boggs. "All right, who's the wise guy?" says an FBI spokesman. "Now I suppose we'll find Hoffa in Alaska...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1976: You, Too, Are Spiro Pavlovich | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...include the network's latest misadventure in pursuit of news. Two weeks ago Clarence Newton ("Chuck") Medlin, 49, approached a Greensboro, N.C., freelance writer named Patrick O'Keefe and told him that he knew where to find the body of missing former Teamsters Union President James Hoffa. Medlin, a sinister-looking self-professed former hit man, said he had once served as Hoffa's bodyguard and had learned of his old boss's final resting place from the hired killer who put him there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Flimflam Man | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...much as $100,000 for an interview with former Nixon Aide H.R. Haldeman. This time, Salant decided to hire O'Keefe as a "consultant," pay him $1,000 to tape an interview with Medlin, and give him $9,000 for the pair to lead a network crew to Hoffa's body, which Medlin insisted lay encased in concrete in 12 ft. of water 2½miles off Key West, Fla. The network stresses that it did not pay any money to Medlin, but O'Keefe says that the two agreed to a 50-50 split...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Flimflam Man | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...three men were brought out in federal court in Detroit by Robert E. Ozer, head of the Justice Department's Organized Strike Force in that city. He said the three men had been named by an informer who had gone before a grand jury looking into the Hoffa disappearance. The informer's name was not revealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hoffa Case: Closing In | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

Federal officials have been told that Hoffa's murderers stuffed his body into a 55-gallon oil drum, carted it across the country and buried it in a dump in Jersey City. This week FBI bulldozers will begin to turn over the trash and garbage in an effort to find the grave of Jimmy Hoffa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hoffa Case: Closing In | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

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