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104-10096-10112 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (7/1/1975)

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CONFIDENTIAL


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1 July 1975


MEMORANDUM FOR:  Inspector General


SUBJECT


:  Possible Questionable Activity


     1.  Summary:  In 1963 a CIA agent was used.in
support of an FBI investigation of Jimmy Hoffa.
Paragraph 4 requests your advice.

     2.  Background:  On 27 June Jim Angleton tel-
ephoned Walt Elder.  Dave Aaron of the SSC staff had
uncovered a staff agent in New York who had been an
Agency Mafia penetration which Angleton said was made
on the authorization of Attorney General Robert F.
Kennedy in 1963.  The agent had tried to contact his
case officer but was unsuccessful and so had instead
contacted Angleton.  Angleton had advised John Greaney,
Office of General Counsel.  Neither of them had thought
to notify,-Chief, CI or Review Staff (Greaney later in-
dicated that he thought the agent had retired).  Elder
then called Bill Miller to alert him to the sensitivity
of the issue, and especially to the possibility of Mafia
retxibution against the agent.  Miller noted this and
said that Pat Shea would be doing the questioning.  Pat
Shea then called Elder and pointed out that he had talked
to the agent and had not learned about his current em-
ployment with CIA until the end of their conversation.
Shea placed his contact in the non-abuse category.  Shea
said he was-summarizing his talk in an Eyes Only memo for
Bill Miller.  Shea planned to talk further with the agent.

     3.  I discussed the matter with John Greaney.  In
summary, he told me that the agent,Lmario Brod  in Feb-6y
ruary 1963 had come into contact withlHerbert Itkinjwho
had information about links between-the Chicago Teamster
Union and the Mafia/NjfrodjReported this to his case
officer, and in a few days the DDP  (Helms) discussed the
matter with Robert F. Kennedy because of Kennedy's re-
quirements for information on Hoffa and with Sam Papich
of the FBI.  The FBI was enamored of Itkin'E contacts


                                RETURN TO CIA
                              Background Use Only       p tra r ,a
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