European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A decade his disappearance remains one of americas greatest he paid too dear a Price to get to the by Pete Yost associated press he fought his Way from loading Dock worker to the top of the nations largest labor Union in Little More than two and on july dethroned teamster Jimmy Hoffa was plotting to grab his Union mobsters be Hoffa had told a Biog a when i am Back you can be sure that Heads will ten years ago this one of the most controversial figures in american labor kept a fateful appointment with reputed mafia figures Anthony Giacalone and Anthony Tony pro Hoffa waited impatiently in the afternoon Sun in front of the Machus red Fox restaurant North of a Maroon Mercury pulled up with several men he got the car drove away and Hoffa was never seen tips poured in by the con artists collected at least As investigators and reporters scurried to phony burial Sites in trash dumps and freshly poured but the Fri focused its efforts on trying to solve a murder in which the victims body had been and the spurred partly by the Digap elevated labor racketeering investigations to to priority since the hundreds of people have gone to prison in a stepped up Effort by the Fri to crack Down on the infiltration of labor unions by organized but no indictments have Ever been issued in the Hoffa we think the Case cries out to be says the labor leaders James who feels the Fri could have done More to solve the its my impression that they Haven put the resources into he there Are several people who Are not in who Are not who did play a role in the says an attorney whose clients include his fathers for Mer base of Detroit teamsters local we expended hundreds of thousands of hours in the Case its not says the Bis Oliver assistant director of the criminal investigative we continue to pursue any new any logical any inference that we derive from any of our sources of information and new it is not a dead even if its never solved i can assure you that those responsible have not gotten off Law enforcement officials Are certain that Hoffa was killed by organized crime they wanted to Stop the theory from waging a divisive Union fight against teamsters president Frank in an autobiography published shortly after his Digap Hoffa described Fitzsimmons As a Guy i took off a truck and Han carried All the Way from shop Stew Ard to general vice the mob was never satisfied with Jimmy As the big says Vincent former chief of Detec Tives in the Detroit police department and Eschief of the Michigan attorney generals organized crime Hoffa demanded to know too much about every Deal that the mob proposed and they Felt that he didst approve enough of their with Fitzsimmons As the mob Guys thought they died and gone to Piersante Fitzsimmons permitted every Union local to handle All of their own who died in always denied he had any mafia ties and was never Hoffa had installed Fitzsimmons As caretaker of the teamsters when Hoffa went to prison in 1967 for jury tampering and defrauding the teamsters Central states pension but Hoffa often had betrayed Fitzsimmons was involved with the Nixon administration in keeping my father in jail longer than he should have the younger Hoffa Fitzsimmons was involved in having the conditions attached tothe commutation signed by Nixon for the purpose of keeping him self in the former president Nixon commuted Hoffas sentence a few Days before Christmas in but parole which Hoffa said he didst know about until he was barred him from Union activities for eight he was challenging the restrictions in Federal court when he the most comprehensive account of what probably happened to Hoffa is contained in a document known As the Hoffa compiled by Fri the memo suggests that the new Jersey teamsters Boss and reputed organized crime set up the Hoffa hit after getting the approval of mafia chieftain Russell Bufalino and other crime family Provenzano lieutenants Salvatore his and Thomas All secretly came to Detroit and at least two of the three participated in the according to the Giacalone and his lured Hoffa to a peace meeting with prov with whom Hoffa had feuded while the two were in Provenzano want in Detroit that he Hung around his Union Hall in new Jersey playing you Guys make me look like a Provenzano protested to reporters a week after the in in just a truck Anthony Giacalone and Andretta Are in prison on felony convictions unrelated to the Hoffa Case but stemming from investigations intensified or reopened after the disappear Sal Briguglio is slain by two gunmen in a mob hit in Little Italy in new York City several years after the Hoffa Hoffas son is especially bitter about the role the Fri believes Charles whom the elder Hoffa had treated like a played in the now a teamster organizer in drove the car in which Hoffa was last according to the Obrien admits driving the which belonged to Anthony Gia Calones but he denies that Hoffa was in Obrien has told Many stories about what he did that says the younger including saying he was out of that he was in and Hes told Many stories which Are not consistent with what he told the authorities when he was Obrien even denied initially to Hoffa that he had driven the Giacalone car that says the Law according to Fri Hoffa was waiting in front of the restaurant when the car pulled driven by Obrien and with Sal Briguglio and either Andretta or Gabriel Briguglio As Hoffa trusted knew the passengers to be Provenzano men and believed they would take him to the new Jersey teamsters Hoffa climbed was knocked driven to another slain and his body perhaps in a mob owned incinerator in according to the Bis the 10 years since Hoffa disappeared have been hard ones for the Fitzsimmons Roy was convicted of conspiring to bribe a senator and forced to williams1 Jackie is the target in a Federal criminal investigation of his Union local in Cleve deregulation has brought fierce Competition to the trucking driving hundreds of companies out of business and shrinking teamster the num Ber of Drivers and dockworkers covered by the National master freight agreement is now half of what it was when Hoffa first negotiated the pact in due largely to the 198182 recession and Peregu Hoffas old local 299 in Detroit has lost teamster membership climbing in re cent years to is still below its Peak in the late would things have been different with Hoffa in com Mand he was but he was 10 feet tall As a Leader of says his if he were Back perhaps he would have been better Able to mobilize the per haps if he were running the Union today we would be better Able to affect legislation like at the height of Hoffas the unions rank and file in Detroit just thought he was recalls team Ster International vice president Bobby Holmes who a photo with Anthony helped at age stage his first Hoffa had a seventh Grade but he had total recall of each contract he read and every Deal he Ever he Seldom forgot a he was Quick tempered and frequently in trouble with the i was in a lot of got my head got banged Hoffa once we had a business agent killed by a our cars were bombed there was Only one Way to survive fight Hoffa built Detroit local a dissension wracked teamster unit with in the into a Behemoth of a Union local that was the envy of teamster leaders across the his dream was to negotiate a coast coast agreement standardizing wage rates for truck a seemingly impossible task which would require breaking through the traditional quilt work of hundreds of local by dint of hard work and unremitting in Hoffa achieved his signing the first Industry wide master agreement in but there was another Side to he recruited some of his business agents right out of prison and formed working relationships with the Detroit purple gang and the leading to what the former Detroit police department Calls a history of violence that connected with the teamsters in there were All kinds of Safe crack says that have never been adequately addressed by Law enforcement in Hoffa was when he was president of local 299 and the inter National no police no no coun nobody in the nobody in the Gover nors office was going to mount a full fledged probe into the teamsters in they Are part of the political Structure of the Hoffa hooked up in 1949 with Chicago Union figure red who gave him Access to the muscle of the Chicago helping consolidate his Power in the in steered teamster insurance business to Dormans who eventually was entrusted by Hoffa with control of the Central states pension fund for the nearly five years Hoffa was in the pension under Hoffa and under Dorfman while Hoffa was in made so Many bad real estate Loans to organized crime interests that Fitzsimmons and other trustees were forced to and control of the funds assets is now in the hands of private investment Federal prosecutors have said that organized crime figures have embezzled millions of dollars by defaulting on Loans for Florida land development projects and Las vegas gambling with Hoffa in the unions Constitution was re written and democracy was Given Short the bulk of teamster convention delegates were Union officers Beholden to Hoffa rather than rank and filers elected by the multiple salaries were permitted under which current teamster president Presser collects More than half a million dollars a year from four positions in the Hoffas the classic Case of a Guy who won wage in creases and benefits for the while at the same time undermining democracy in the says Ken organizer for teamsters for a democratic a dissident group of in 1958 Hoffa ran headlong into the Senate rackets committee and its chief Robert the same panel that a year earlier brought Down teamster president Dave Beck by exposing his misuse of Union Hoffa was accused of running a hoodlum the teamsters were kicked out of the Falcio for after two vain attempts to convict Hoffa on Federal wiretapping charges and on a charge of conspiring to Plant a spy on the Senate and via yet another Legal Hoffa was convicted of jury tampering and fraud involving the teamsters Central pension he was Given a five year prison to Jim the former government prosecutor who finally got a conviction against he was a Forgetta he was just brute Neal there were no soft his fight to the top was so hard and on such a Tough Battlefield that when he finally got to the top he  do what he might have liked to have he paid too dear a Price to get to the 14 the stars and stripes August the stars and stripes Page 15