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Dan: Jimmy Hoffa was an
enemy of orthodox society.

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threatened John Kennedy,

Robert Kennedy, or both.

Scott: Hoffa was actually
a full-fledged informant

by the end.

Dan: Hoffa's association
with organized crime

just quadrupled the
threat to this country.

Dr. Buccellato: That the
Teamsters were protecting

these drug traffickers.

Voiceover: We have no information as,

as to the fact that he is alive,

but we don't know that he is dead either.

Voiceover: More than 200 FBI agents

are involved in the search for Hoffa.

Voiceover: It is one of the most famous

and enduring American mysteries.

What happened to Jimmy Hoffa?

Scott: Hoffa is seen
getting into this car,

and the car is seen driving
away, never to be seen again.

Hoffa vanished,

and with this disappearance really started

the most fascinating mystery

in the criminal annals of America.

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Dr. Russell: Jimmy Hoffa
was born and raised

in coal mining towns in Southern Indiana

in the 1910s and 1920s,

hardscrabble towns filled with
coal miners and bootleggers,

a lot of whites from the South

and emigrated to Southern Indiana.

By the 1920s, it became a hub

of the Ku Klux Klan nationally

and where violence really
determined a lot of conflicts.

In the towns he grew up in,

there were more saloons
than there were churches.

His mother was a single mother,

who was forced to take
in laundry from neighbors

to support the family.

Hoffa lived on the edge

throughout his childhood
and early adulthood,

and I think that also
defined his outlook on life

and his career.

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Al: So Jimmy Hoffa and his family

arrived in Detroit in 1924,

looking for better economic opportunities.

Detroit was one of the
fastest growing cities

in the country.

It was also one of the most violent.

Scott: You had the Italians
with several groups,

the River Gang, the East Side Gang,

the West Side Gang,

the Jewish Purple Gang.

And then you had other factions,

such as the Lizard Gang,

which is a Polish gang out of Hamtramck.

A gangland economic boom
that was taking place

not just in Detroit
but around the country,

that was the situation
that Hoffa was coming up in

as a young man.

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Al: Then the Depression hit,

and it hit Detroit harder
than almost anywhere.

Half the city was out of work,

bread lines in the street.

Thousands of people would show up

for a single job opening.

Dr. Russell: Hoffa was lucky to get a job

as a warehouse worker unloading crates

on a dock at Kroger's.

He lived in a world in which

poverty and unemployment was the norm

and in which violence often determined

the outcome of class struggle.

Al: In 1932, the very bottom
year of the Great Depression,

the year of the national crime wave,

John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde,

Jimmy Hoffa was about 19 years old,

and he did something pretty amazing.

He organized his first strike.

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Dr. Russell: I think it's
important to see Jimmy Hoffa

as always having been an entrepreneur

and looking at the labor
movement as an entrepreneur.

He saw the potential for a strike

not as a means to redo the economy

or even redo the management of Kroger's

but as a means simply
to make higher wages.

Workers striking, refusing
to work was leveraged

for simply economic means.

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Al: Hoffa was seeing the American system

exposed all around him,

Wall Street taking
advantage of Main Street,

and the rise of gangsters and bandits.

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Dr. Buccellato: Land speculators,
banks gobbling up land

foreclosing on small farmers.

Al: For many people, men like
John Dillinger and Al Capone

became the heroes.

Doing whatever it took
to get ahead in life,

that was what was important.

Dr. Buccellato: Jimmy Hoffa
is growing up in the Midwest

during the Great Depression.

He's aware of the outlaw personality.

He's part of the community

that is marginalized.

These communities are responding

to people like John
Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd.

So by the time that Jimmy
Hoffa becomes involved

in labor politics,

this is an important
part of his character.

Al: I think the lesson
that Jimmy Hoffa learned

from the Depression was
to fight tooth and nail

for everything you could get

because Big Business and the government

were not the friends of the working man.

Dr. Russell: His career
thrived in large part

in a very unregulated economy
and political atmosphere

in Detroit in the 1930s.

He saw, in fact, that
workers could succeed

more often than not

in that sort of jungle environment.

George: Rum owners and guys

who were moving liquor into the country,

they needed trucks.

The Teamsters were driving those trucks.

You've got the nexus
right there of the Mob,

corruption, and laborers.

And when Prohibition ends,

that connections remain,

and it just grows out of that.

Dr. Russell: Often,
owners, business owners

would hire thugs with
baseball bats and clubs

and sometimes pistols

to intimidate or beat union organizers.

And quite often, those union
organizers would fight back

with violence as well,

and so many of these battles
are fought in the streets.

Dr. Buccellato: Management and ownership

breaking promises and breaking legs,

it is morally acceptable
to fight fire with fire.

George: The Mob was muscle,

and the Mob worked for
whoever would hire them.

In terms of the organized labor movement,

there were times when corporate America,

whether it's the garment
industry or whatever,

would hire Mob muscle to
intimidate the unions.

So it wasn't like the
Mobsters were embracing

organized labor movement in America.

The Mobsters went wherever
there was a payday.

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Dr. Russell: And workers often found

that they could win those conflicts.

In particular, Hoffa
found that those conflicts

could be settled through their willingness

to fight industries.

Dr. Buccellato: For union rank and file,

Jimmy Hoffa is a Robin Hood,

and like Robin Hood,

he may have to resort to extralegal acts.

He may have to get his hands dirty.

But in the end, his workers

and these marginalized
communities are better off.

Dr. Russell: Hoffa was
most likely involved

in car bombings.

You had to keep scabs
out of those workplaces.

You had to keep replacement workers out,

or else you had no
power as a union leader.

Al: The first real documented proof

of Hoffa's connection with the Mob

comes in about 1937.

Hoffa was married by this time,

but he had an ex-girlfriend

who was sort of a gangster moll,

Sylvia Pagano, a.k.a. Sylvia Paris.

Dr. Buccellato: At the time,

Pagano is dating Frankie
"Three Fingers" Coppola,

a bootlegger from Los Angeles

who has a criminal record extending back

to his youth in Sicily.

Pagano introduces Coppola to Hoffa,

and they become friends right away.
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Al: Frank Coppola associated
with Santo Perrone,

a Detroit Sicilian mobster

who was known for
providing goons and muscle

to either unions or to businesses,

again, playing both sides of the fence

in various union battles in the 1930s.

Dr. Buccellato: They come up with a plan.

The Mob can provide muscle to back

this union movement that is struggling.

The odds are against them.

The Mob will offer access to muscle

to defend the workers, to counterattack.

Al: The Teamsters, at this time,

were engaged in a brutal strike

with the Kroger's Supermarket chain,

people being shot,

heads being busted,

and supposedly, Hoffa
asked his new friend,

Santo Perrone,

to hold his goons back and not help Kroger

while the Teamsters tried
to fight this struggle.

Dan: The old adage about Hoffa was that

he wound up going to the Mob

because he was trying to use them

to go after stubborn employers

who refuse to be unionized.

In fact, he used the
Mob to go after the CIO,

which was raiding the
Teamsters' turf in Detroit.

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Al: I think Jimmy Hoffa used the Mafia

and other organized crime

the same way he used everybody else.

He was always the
smartest guy in the room,

and I think to say that
the Mob controlled him

or controlled the Teamsters is misleading.

Dr. Russell: There's no evidence

that he was ever beholden to them.

There's no evidence that they
ever dominated his unions.

Dr. Buccellato: I don't think
someone like Jimmy Hoffa

makes a decision that,

"Well, I'm going to become a racketeer."

Rather, it's an organic response.

Hoffa has an opportunity here

to secure some type of defense

on behalf of his workers

by forming various partnerships

with members of the underworld.

George: Jimmy Hoffa recognized,
"This is the way to go.

"This is the way to rise to the top,

"and you got to get in
bed with these guys,

"and they're going to benefit
and I'm going to benefit."

Not complicated at all.

Al: One of the most stunning claims

about Hoffa and the Teamsters

is that they were integral
to the development

of the global heroin trade.

Teamster trucks and
locals may have been used

to help flood the United
States with Sicilian heroin

in aftermath of World War II.

And it all centered around
Hoffa's first friend in the Mob,

Frank Coppola.

Dr. Buccellato: A number of
congressional committee reports

documented the relationship
between Coppola and Hoffa

and the Teamsters.

Now Coppola is a really
interesting character.

He's a bootlegger in Los Angeles.

He is a human trafficker in Mexico.

He is a labor racketeer in Detroit.

He's running drugs out of Cuba.

He's all over the place.

The United States deports Coppola in 1948.

Communist Party is popular in Italy.

The labor unions are
gaining strength in Italy,

and the U.S. State Department
has a very real concern

that Italy will fall into communist hands.

And back in Sicily, he's
a political power broker.

He has unique connections
to Italian senators.

His brother is a powerful
member of the clergy in Sicily.

Al: Even before the Nazis surrendered,

the Cold War was begining,

and the U.S. government was
making deals with criminals

in former Fascism Europe

to help fight a dirty
war against communism.

In Italy, this was known
as Operation Gladio.

Mafia boss of bosses, Lucky Luciano,

was working with the U.S. government,

and so was Jimmy Hoffa's
old friend, Frank Coppola.

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Dan: Coppola and Luciano got together

and created a drug network.

From Montreal, there were two routes.

One was straight South into New York,

where it was handled by

a guy from the Bonanno crime family,

a guy named Carmine Galante,

and then across Canada, over
the Detroit River into Detroit.

Dr. Buccellato: Congressional
committee reports identified

Priziola and Quasarano as
two of the most significant

and important drug
traffickers in North America.

Dan: And Jimmy Hoffa, in
order to give these guys

a facade of legitimacy,

he set up a dummy local for them,

Teamsters local for
them to operate out of.

Dr. Buccellato: And the evidence suggests

that for quite some time,

New York Mafiosi were buying their heroin

from the Detroit suppliers.

Did Hoffa know about the
narcotics trafficking?

I can't prove that.

I suspect that someone as smart as Hoffa

would not want to know
about what was going on,

but I've interviewed retired
federal agents from FBN,

and they contend that
within their offices,

it was well known that the Teamsters

were protecting these drug traffickers.

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Al: In 1952, Dave Beck became

the new president of the Teamsters,

and Jimmy Hoffa became vice president.

This was the peak moment

for the union movement
in the United States,

the most members, the strongest voice,

the most power.

Dr. Russell: And government
leaders and business leaders

both wanted to curb that.

They wanted to curb the union movement.

And it's crucial to
understand that that period

coincided with the rise
in labor regulation,

especially from the federal government.

So in the '30s, when Hoffa was coming up,

he was faced with constant
competition from other unions,

which forced him to be
militant and accountable

to his members.

It forced him to be a good union leader.

By the 1950s, it was all but impossible

for unions to compete against one another.

Al: So now with no outside
elements left to fight,

Jimmy Hoffa turns his attentions inward.

He goes after his own
president, Dave Beck.

And Hoffa makes a deal with
some really bad people,

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including a New York
racketeer named Johnny Dio.

Dio was infamous.

He had been implicated in an acid attack

on crusading journalist, Victor Riesel,

where acid was thrown in his face

and he was blinded permanently.

George: Did the American labor movement

go off track to a certain degree?

Yeah, for sure, it did.

But did corporate America go off track?

Sure, it did.

It's almost a human condition

when you've got that much power,

that much status, that much wealth.

Al: So meanwhile, Hoffa
has an un-yet known nemesis

crisscrossing the country
trying to bring him down,

Bobby Kennedy,

who's working for John McClellan,

a senator running a Senate investigation

into labor and union corruption.

Dr. Russell: The McClellan
hearings was also a means

through which to attack the union movement

in terms of public relations,

that the movement was full
of goons and criminals,

people like Jimmy Hoffa,

and that's really the purpose it served.

Al: Hoffa knew he was next to be called

in front of the Senate,

but he had a plan.

He tried to plant a spy right
inside Bobby Kennedy's office.

Dan: Hoffa, trying to keep tabs

on what the Senate committee was doing,

was introduced to a guy
named John Cye Cheasty.

Cheasty was an honest guy,

and he went to Bobby Kennedy's people,

and he said, "Listen,
Jimmy Hoffa has come to me

"and made me this offer."

Al: So Kennedy and Cheasty set Hoffa up.

When he goes to pass the
money off to Cheasty,

the FBI is there to arrest him.

Dan: He gives the
documents to Jimmy Hoffa.

Jimmy Hoffa gives him the money.

This is all memorialized on film,

and Hoffa is indicted,
charged with extortion.

Keith: He was represented
by Edward Bennett Williams,

who was the premiere criminal
defense attorney in America.

He, being Williams, arranged to have

Joe Lewis sit in the front row.

And when the jury selection was going on,

he shook hands with Joe Lewis.

It's difficult again today

to go back to realize what a symbol

to the African-American
community Joe Lewis was

in the '50s and the '60s,

and this was a carefully
orchestrated event

to give Jimmy Hoffa some credibility.

Dan: The jury comes out,

and sure enough, Jimmy Hoffa is acquitted.

Al: August of '57, fresh
off his victory at trial,

Jimmy Hoffa is finally called

in front of the McClellan
Committee on Labor Corruption,

and he and Bobby Kennedy go at it.

Dan: The hatred between
Bobby Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa

was of mythical proportions.

Dr. Russell: Kennedy really had

a paternalist image of the world.

He was a wealthy boy who was raised

with this idea of noblesse oblige,

the idea that the wealthy

are obligated to help their lessers.

He had to remove the
dictators who were oppressing

the people of the Third World.

He had to remove the dictators
from within the unions

who were oppressing the working class,

like Jimmy Hoffa.

Al: I think Bobby Kennedy
saw all this as a chance

to get himself some national exposure,

probably at his father,
Joe Kennedy's suggestion.

By creating a mythology of Hoffa

being so dangerous to America,

a tactic he learned at
the feet of Joe McCarthy,

who was actually a family
friend of the Kennedys,

he made himself into a
hero protecting America

from the bad men like Jimmy Hoffa.

Dan: Bobby Kennedy
thought that Jimmy Hoffa

was an enemy of orthodox society.

He believed that with
Hoffa having the ability

to shut down this country with his control

over the trucking union

that he was a national security threat.

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and he believed that Hoffa's association

with organized crime

just quadrupled the
threat to this country.

Consequently, Jimmy Hoffa was a person

who had to be stopped.

Dr. Russell: He was also
a very Christian man,

with the idea that the
holy should save and redeem

and uplift those who have not been saved.

He saw the whole world
as a group of people

inferior to himself

who needed to be raised to his level.

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Dr. Buccellato: I don't think
Hoffa ever viewed himself

as a racketeer.

In fact, to the extent
that he acknowledged

his relationships with the underworld,

he was actually unapologetic about it.

Robert Kennedy: Did you say,

"That SOB, I'll break his back?"

Jimmy Hoffa: Who?

Robert Kennedy: You.

Jimmy Hoffa: Say it to who?

Robert Kennedy: To anyone.

Did you make that statement
after these people

testified before the committee?

Whose back were you going
to break, Mr. Hoffa?

Jimmy Hoffa: Figurative speech.

I don't even know who I was talking about,

and I don't know what
you're talking about.

Al: As for Bobby, his father,
Joe's money and influence,

were the only reason the Kennedy brothers

were such rising stars
on the political scene

at such a young age.

Dr. Russell: The federal
government really had no business

in intervening in that.

But Bobby Kennedy saw to it anyway,

and in many ways,

he and the Democratic leadership,

with the CIO leadership,

really put a web of constraints about,

around the labor movement

that destroyed labor activism.

Al: Some of his close associates claimed

he would write a check to
the boss and archdiocese,

say, for a million dollars.

The archdiocese would take 900,000 in cash

from the parishioners' contributions

and give it to Kennedy.

Kennedy then could write off
his million dollar donation,

and he had 900,000 in cash to pass around

and grease palms

to help his two sons get elected.

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So it must have been a real bitter pill

for Jimmy Hoffa to swallow

to sit in front of that Senate committee

and be browbeaten
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by the likes of the son of Joe Kennedy.

The hearings eventually ended,

and Teamster president,
Dave Beck, got indicted

and sent to prison,

and Jimmy Hoffa became
Teamsters president.

So now, Jimmy Hoffa has the power,

and it's time to pay back

the people who helped him get there,

and one of the ways he could do that

was with the Teamsters pension fund.

Dan: Which was operated by
a hastily thrown together

insurance company called Union Casualty,

which was run by a guy named Paul Dorfman

and his son, Allan Dorfman.

Keith: Huge amounts of the Las Vegas Strip

were financed with loans from
the Central State Pension fund

which was under the
control of Jimmy Hoffa.

Al: The Tropicana, the Circus Circus,

the Aladdin, Caesars Palace,

the Hacienda, the Stardust, the Fremont,

all of them funded with
Teamster pension money

and all of them mobbed up.

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Dr. Russell: So what gets
lost in all of this talk

about the Teamster's pensions

and how it went to Las Vegas
and other Mafia endeavors,

which is all true,

it is also true their
pensions were tremendous.

They were much higher
than they would have been

have Hoffa not existed.

Even during his corrupt phase,

they were getting very wealthy pensions.

They were getting wages
that were far higher

than truck drivers were
making 20 years earlier.

Jimmy Hoffa: Nobody in this
country respects what's weak,

you believe me.

But because we are financially solid,

because we do have an organization

that is equipped to handle any situation

that comes in front of us,

we're successful in
getting from the employers

what our members want and
need with our strengths.

George: Chicago, Cleveland, Kansas City,

they would rack the money up

depending on which mob families

had a piece of that particular casino.

The number varies from 12
million to 20 million a year,

from six casinos to 10
casinos, however many.

Al: The Jewish Dorfman
was a towering figure

in organized crime

and wasn't afraid of violence.

Dan: I got an anonymous
call to meet a source

who's going to give me
information about Dorfman.

Broad daylight, public place,
I'd even hesitate to go,

and I got jumped there
and I got really ...

It was the worst beating I've ever taken.

George: A lot of them were prosecuted.

A lot of the guys who
were involved in this

were indicted and went to jail,

but it was all about cooking the books.

Al: The story of Allan
Dorfman in Las Vegas

was dramatized in Martin
Scorcese's movie, "Casino,"

and Dorfman himself was
gunned down in Chicago

in the early 1980s.

Newscaster: Here in
Chicago this afternoon,

Allan Dorfman, a man with
reported ties to organized crime

and to the Teamsters union
for the past 30 years,

was shot to death in what
police are describing

as a gangland-style execution.

Voiceover: Dorfman died here

in a suburban Chicago parking lot

from as many as seven 22-caliber
gunshot wounds to the head.

Reporter: Dorfman was
about to go to prison

for his conviction last month

in the Teamsters bribery conspiracy trial.

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Voiceover: From his stronghold

in the wild Sierra Maestra mountains,

Cuba's Fidel Castro emerged triumphant

after two years of guerilla warfare

against the Batista regime.

Al: In the late '50s, Jimmy
Hoffa got himself mixed up

in the deepest levels of
America's secret politics.

When Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba,

Dwight Eisenhower told
the CIA to kill him.

But of course, this was
easier said than done

because the hit could never be linked back

to the U.S. government.

So, unbelievably, the
CIA contacted the Mafia

to help them kill Fidel Castro.

Mob bosses like Santo Trafficante,

Carlos Marcello, and Meyer Lansky

had lost tens of millions of dollars

when Castro seized power,

and they were the ones
that had the connections

to the Cuban exile community

that could help the CIA get poison in

or get an assassin and take Castro out.

The CIA's first contact with the Mob

may well have been through Jimmy Hoffa.

During this time, Hoffa's
right-hand man, Rolland McMaster,

a high-ranking Teamster official,

went down to Florida,

set up a Teamster office in Miami,

which was full of Cuban exiles,

was a hotbed of anti-Castro activity.

And right inside the
Teamster office in Miami,

Santo Trafficante,

one of the most powerful
mob bosses in the country,

had an office.

Dan: A guy named Bob Mayhew came in,

was brought in to the plots

by the head of Covert Operations

for the Central Intelligence Agency.

Al: Robert Mayhew, incidentally,

was close friends and business partners

with Jimmy Hoffa's old lawyer,
Edward Bennett Williams,

and shared office space with
him back in Washington D.C.

Dan: I interviewed Mayhew
just a few blocks from here

at the Georgetown Inn here in Washington.

He told me that his job was
to get to Santo Trafficante,

who had been released
from the Cuban prison

after he had been imprisoned by Castro

in April of '59.

But Mayhew didn't know Trafficante.

He knew that it was going to take a boss

to deal with another boss,

but he didn't know a boss.

But he did know a guy
named Johnny Roselli,

and so Bob Mayhew worked
with Johnny Roselli,

who brought in ...

Johnny Roselli was a Chicago gangster,

and so he brings in Sam Giancana,

who, at the time, was the
acting boss in Chicago,

and it was Sam Giancana who
brings in Santo Trafficante

into what becomes a CIA-Mafia
plot to kill Castro.

We have evidence to the
fact that Jimmy Hoffa

was the original liaison
between the CIA and the Mafia

and the Castro assassination plots

during that period between December 1959

and August of 1960,

when Bob Mayhew became
involved in those plots.

Al: While the CIA-mob plots to
kill Castro obviously failed,

they did have profound consequences,

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which likely culminated

in the murder of President
Kennedy in Dallas in 1963.

The CIA's bungled maneuvering had created

a dangerous nexus of players,

ranging from Hoffa and the Teamsters

to Cuban dissidents, mob bosses,

(camera click)

and fringe characters
like Lee Harvey Oswald.

Dan: So when Bobby Kennedy
became Attorney General,

he had a hit list of
organized crime figures

and their associates whom he
had targeted for prosecution,

and number one on that
hit list was Jimmy Hoffa.

Al: Dan Moldea wrote the seminal book

on Hoffa and the Teamsters

right in the immediate aftermath
of Hoffa's disappearance,

and he is convinced that
New Orleans mob boss,

Carlos Marcello,

who had his own run-ins
with Bobby Kennedy,

conspired with Hoffa and others

to somehow manipulate Lee Harvey Oswald

into killing JFK

and then had Mafia associate
Jack Ruby kill Oswald

(gunshot)

before he could spill the story.

Voiceover: He's been shot.

He's been shot.

Lee Oswald has been shot.

Dan: That the murder of John
Kennedy is a straight mob hit.

Jimmy Hoffa, Carlos
Marcello, Santo Trafficante

arranged and executed the murder.

Al: Marcello, Hoffa, and Trafficante

did share the same lawyer,

a guy named Frank Ragano,

who made the claim years later,

when he was trying to sell a book,

(camera flash)
that Hoffa had him carry

the contract to kill JFK to
Marcello and Trafficante.

Dan: The mob guys were
absolutely horrified

as to what was going on,

saying that they were going
to have to go back to Europe

just to feed themselves,

that Bobby Kennedy was just
destroying their businesses,

that they would die themselves

if they could get rid of Bobby
Kennedy as Attorney General.

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Al: I think the Kennedys

were definitely playing
both sides of the fence

when it came to organized crime.

(sinister music)

The FBI actually recorded a wiretap

between Chicago mobsters Sam
Giancana and Johnny Roselli

that their donation to JFK's
campaign had been accepted

but that Bobby Kennedy wouldn't let up

on them and their friends.

(suspense music)

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It was his fourth criminal
trial in 10 years,

but this time, Bobby Kennedy
had a new trick up his sleeve.

He had a mole inside Hoffa's camp

that was feeding him information
as the trial was going on.

Dan: The person who ended up

being the key government witness

against Jimmy Hoffa was a
guy named Ed Grady Partin

from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Local Five.

He was a Teamster official.

And Ed Partin had knowledge
of the fixing of the jury.

In fact, when he called
the Justice Department

and spoke with Walter Sheridan,

who was the head of Bobby Kennedy's

"Get Hoffa Squad,"

he said flat out, "Hoffa
is fixing to fix the jury."

Al: The problem with all
this was Ed Partin himself.

Partin supplied Kennedy
with the inside info

to convict Hoffa on jury tampering,

but Partin was a guy who've
been arrested for everything,

from manslaughter to
embezzling union funds,

and he was actually out
on bail for those crimes

when he miraculously saw the light

and decided to help get Hoffa.

Dan: And one of the reasons

why Ed Partin had stepped forward

was because Jimmy Hoffa had told him

that he was planning
to kill Bobby Kennedy.

When Walter Sheridan
heard this information,

they immediately put him on a polygraph,

not just about the jury tampering business

but about the attempted,

the plot to murder Bobby Kennedy.

Ed Partin passed the
polygraph test on everything,

flying colors.

September of 1962, another FBI informant

was talking to a Mafia
guy named Carlos Marcello,

who probably controlled Jimmy Hoffa.

And Marcello said, "We're
not killing Bobby Kennedy

"because everyone would know
in two seconds who did it

"if Bobby Kennedy was found dead.

"We're going to kill the president,

"the guy who controls Bobby Kennedy.

"If you get rid of the president,

"you get rid of Bobby Kennedy,

"and we've got a guy to do the job."

Marcello's partner, alter
ego, Santo Trafficante,

the Mafia boss of Tampa, Florida,

was talking to another FBI informant

named Jose Aleman,

and he made it clear
that it was Jimmy Hoffa

who was making the arrangements
for the president's murder.

Al: In the weeks leading up to
Kennedy and Oswald's murders,

Jack Ruby had numerous phone calls

with people like Teamster
enforcer Barney Baker,

who was suspected in many murders

and had worked personally
for Hoffa and Myer Lansky.

(suspense music)

So, was Jimmy Hoffa involved
in a plot to kill JFK?

The Church Committee, which
was a Senate investigation

looking into U.S. intelligence operations,

determined that Hoffa
had the means, motive,

and opportunity to help
kill John F. Kennedy.

But that doesn't mean he did.

(suspense music)

Dan: It was determined
that Hoffa had tampered

with a member of the jury,

and so he was re-indicted on
charges of jury tampering,

for which he received
an eight-year sentence.

He was convicted on a
second case in Chicago

involving pension fraud,

where he received another five years.

So he was given a 13-year prison sentence.

(victorious music)

Voiceover: With his
raincoat covering handcuffs,

Hoffa arrives at federal prison
in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

He said his attorneys
would continue his fight

while he's in jail.

Parole is possible in 32 months.

At $100,000 annually,

he is the nation's highest paid prisoner.

Al: So Jimmy Hoffa gets sent
to Lewisburg Federal Prison.

Things get even more
complicated for Hoffa there

because he's housed with
Genovese mob captain,

Tony Provenzano,

who was also the president
of a huge Teamster local

in New Jersey at the time,

and the two of them actually
got into a fistfight,

with Hoffa yelling, "It's guys like you

"that got me in here in the first place."

At the time all this
is going on in prison,

a national mob war is brewing
out in the real world.

Dan: 1964, '65, '66 was the Bonanno wars,

Joe Bonanno's son, Bill Bonanno,

deciding to whack three of the
heads of the five families.

(gunshots)

Joe Bonanno wound up in Tucson, Arizona.

And in Tucson, Arizona,

he made a pact with two Southern
organized crime figures.

One was Carlos Marcello, the
Mafia boss of New Orleans,

and the other was Santo
Trafficante of Tampa.

Al: If the Bonanno-Marcello-Trafficante
Southern powers

could control Hoffa,

they probably could control

the single biggest prize in the country,

the Teamster pension fund,

which was really the goose that was laying

golden egg after golden egg.

Ultimately, the Mafia
commission patched up

the rift between the Mafia families,

and Jimmy Hoffa was left
on the outside looking in

but now with a new
deadly enemy in the form

of Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano.

(suspense music)

Jimmy Hoffa: A murderer upstairs

or a man with 50 years alongside of you.

And when you're trying to
sleep under those conditions,

unless you have a tremendous willpower,

you're constantly one eye open,

looking to see whether or
not you'll survive the night

for the next day.

(clapping)
(jolly music)

Dr. Russell: From the
1930s through the 1970s,

most unions were giving their money,

their campaign money to Democrats.

Hoffa gave his money
to whomever would help

the Teamsters and himself,

and so sometimes he gave
his money to Democrats,

sometimes to Republicans.

By the early 1970s, when he was in prison,

Richard Nixon was president,

and it became quite convenient

for the Teamster to give money
to Nixon and the Republicans,

and in exchange, he received a pardon.

Jimmy Hoffa: I appreciate the fact

that he signed the commutation papers.

Whatever effect it will have
on the members, I can't say.

I haven't talked to any members.

Reporter: Do you regard this
as a strictly political move?

Jimmy Hoffa: No, I do not.

I think it was a regular
routine commutation

based upon my time served,

based upon my sentence and the
background of the sentence.

Reporter: Do you plan
on supporting him soon

because he [unintelligible] or what?

Jimmy Hoffa: It's too far
away to make any prediction

of what I will do politically.

George: Now why would Nixon do that

and if Hoffa was this terrible

organized labor figure/gangster,

why is he entitled to a pardon?

Those kind of things were
all questions back then.

It certainly undermined
Nixon to a great degree.

I mean that was one of the many things

that when people started
to talk about Nixon

as a president who
didn't play by the rules,

Nixon as a president who ultimately became

the paranoid president,

this was an example of that.

This was Nixon, the deal-maker.

Al: While Jimmy Hoffa was
in prison from '67 to '71,

America changed a lot.

And when he got out,

Hoffa's time had really
passed in a lot of ways.

George: Hoffa, for one segment
of the American population,

epitomized organized labor
working for the blue collar,

the common man,

giving him his rights,

giving him decent wages
and working conditions.

But for the people that were involved

in the protests of the
1960s that wanted change,

that were progressive,

that were liberal,

organized labor had
become, in a lot of ways,

part of the problem.

The sons and daughters
of blue-collar workers

wh had gone on to get an education

kind of looked askance at all of that.

They didn't appreciate what
unions really were about.

What they saw were unions
corrupting the system.

And I think Hoffa
epitomized that for them.

On the other hand, he epitomized

the champion for the common man

for the earlier generation of workers.

Al: Teamster Vice
President Frank Fitzsimmons

was running the Teamsters show,
with Hoffa away in prison,

and he was even more accommodating

than Hoffa had been to organized crime.

Dan: But Fitzsimmons just let
everyone to do their thing.

That's the way he liked it,

and that's the way the
vice presidents liked it,

and that's the way the mob liked it.

Frank: For this union nor I

am in the hands of organized crime.

This union has nothing to hide

under general presidency
of Frank Fitzsimmons.

Keith: Many of these guys

had feathered their own
personal nests pretty well

during the Fitzsimmons tenure.

Richard: And the only thing

that he was looking at at that point

was trying to get back into

the leadership position with the union,

who didn't seem to want
him around anymore.

Scott: He really only had
one thing on his mind,

which was claiming back
the Teamsters presidency.

This was his baby, really his joy in life,

was being the president of the Teamsters.

Keith: Even though he had been involved

with organized crime,

he always figured it
was a 50-50 relationship

where he was getting things from them

in return for giving things to them

not only personally but
for the labor movement.

He thought that Frank Fitzsimmons

had become a lackey for the
members of organized crime,

and he was very interested
in getting back in

to the Teamsters union.

He was going to do whatever he could

to get his power back,

and if that involved agreeing to

or deciding to take some
of the mob influence

out of the union,

Hoffa was willing to do
that to get the power back.

Scott: Hoffa's desperation reached a point

where my sources in the
federal government tell me

that he actually became an FBI informant.

This is a well-kept secret in the fact

that it really hasn't been public record

but that Hoffa was actually

a full-fledged informant by the end.

There was an actual quid pro quo

between Hoffa and his handlers
in the federal government,

in the FBI,

that in exchange for Hoffa
feeding them information

about what he knew,

the FBI, the federal government

was going to help lift the restriction

on Hoffa's ability to run

for the presidency of the Teamsters

and that he would be
allowed to run in 1976.

The word on the street was
that Hoffa's restriction

was most likely to be lifted

was really a problem for the mob

in the sense that they realized

that Hoffa had enough support

and enough momentum behind him

that he could easily
win that 1976 election.

George: For Machiavelli,
fortune favors the bold.

He was going to make a bold
move to try to come back.

But I think there were just
too many players involved,

too many people who didn't
want him to come back,

and he couldn't control all
the events and all the players,

as he could have maybe 20 years earlier,

when he was at the peak of his
power in the Teamsters union.

Scott: So Hoffa's relationship

with the Mafia is quickly deteriorating.

His really only life raft at this point

are the Giacalone brothers,

Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone

and Vito "Billy Jack" Giacalone,

the street bosses of the Detroit Mafia,

the men that are really the faces

of organized crime in Detroit.

They do all the dirty work.

They're the junkyard dogs,

and they have long been Hoffa's contacts.

Greg: The Detroit family goes way back.

I mean it's one of the original families.

It's part of the Commission,

part of the National Comission.

Bill: Through my years of undercover work,

I don't believe that I was
ever able to really penetrate

the mob, the Detroit Mafia, if you will.

These people had charisma.

Some of them were very likable people.

I think they were friendly,
but from a distance,

from afar, they were
not the kind of people

that would take a shining to strangers.

As part of their culture, their makeup,

they don't deal with strangers.

Scott: The mob knew the only way

to get Hoffa out in the open

was to lure him,

and that lure was Tony Pro Provenzano.

Hoffa understood the only way

that he was going to get the
requisite number of delegates

to take back the Teamsters
union in the '76 election

was to make peace with Tony Provenzano,

a man that he had actually
put into power in the union,

was very good friends with until they had

a rather bitter falling out in prison.

Hoffa knew he had to squash the beef.

The Giacalones knew that bringing

Tony Provenzano to Detroit as a lure

would be the way to get
Hoffa out in the open

because Hoffa needed that support.

Richard: I mean there was
a saying in Detroit that

if you didn't know that person

when he was sucking his Mama's breast,

stay away from him.

Don't trust him.

And that's the way they acted.

They grew up together.

They socialized together.

They married one another.

And they died together.

Insulated protected group by themselves.

Scott: It was appropriate,
in Hoffa's mind,

that Giacalone would be
acting as the go-between.

Tony Provenzano's first cousin
was Tony Giacalone's wife.

The Giacalone brothers were
actually going to his house,

I believe, on July 26th and July 27th,

trying to A) get Hoffa to come
out of hiding, if you will.

He was very cautious about
who he was dealing with

out in the public.

And they also wanted to ease his worries

that he was in danger.

Well, in fact, he was in danger,

but the Giacalones were
playing both sides of the fence

at this point.

They arranged a meeting
at the Machus Red Fox

for 2:00 on July 30th, 1975.

Hoffa felt comfortable
going to that meeting

because he was told
that both Tony Giacalone

and Lenny Schultz would be at that meeting

brokering the deal.

Hoffa was willing then to bury
the hatchet with Provenzano

if Provenzano came to Detroit.

The Giacalones convinced Hoffa

that Provenzano was coming to Detroit,

so they set that meeting
for that afternoon.

Hoffa lounged around the house
for most of that morning.

He left around 12:30,

stopped in Pontiac, a
limo service that was run

by a friend of his by the
name of Louie Linteau.

People called him "The Pope."

He showed up there.

Linteau was not there, so
Hoffa left him a message

and took off to the meeting himself

and arrived at the Machus
Red Fox 1:45, 2:00.

He waited in the restaurant
for around a half hour

and realized that he had been stood up.

Hoffa was frazzled by this.

He was upset.

He went across the parking
lot to a hardware store

and made two phone calls.

The first was to Louie Linteau
at that limousine service

to tell him that he had been stood up

and that he was leaving,

that he was upset about it,

and then the second was to his wife.

At this point, Hoffa is seen

walking to his car in the parking lot.

It's around 2:45,

and he is met by a Mercury Marquis,

according to witnesses,

was occupied by three men,

two men in the front
seat and one in the back.

Hoffa is seen getting into this car,

and the car is seen driving
away onto Telegraph Road,

never to be seen again.

And with this disappearance really started

arguably the most fascinating mystery

in the criminal annals of America.

Keith: The most prominent
labor leader in America

just disappears,

and nobody saw anything.

Even though his wife was
concerned and was calling people,

nobody was overly concerned
about an adult male

not coming home at 5, 6, 7, 8:00 at night.

I mean that's been known to happen.

Voiceover: The Hoffas are
reportedly under heavy guard here.

But late this afternoon,
the family broke its silence

and asked for public assistance

in the search for Jimmy Hoffa.

James: I have asked anybody
who might have information

concerning my father's whereabouts

to please come forward.

Keith: Agents in the organized crime units

in every major city

but particularly New York, New Jersey,

Detroit, Chicago, Boston

were all taking every effort they could

to establish any connection
or any interaction

between the cities.

These were almost all
face-to-face meetings

in private settings.

David: I remember the time period.

People were running around with shovels

digging holes in fields
all around Metro Detroit.

Greg: The whole experience

when I first got to Detroit is

this is just like the movies.

I had always wanted to be an FBI agent,

and now it would seem like

you were going from one
major case to another.

(ambient traffic noise)

David: All of these whack job
nutty people would call me.

I finally got to the point
with people when they called me

who told me where he was.

I just said, "Go get a shovel.

"Go dig a hole.

"If you find anything, call
me before you call the FBI."

Greg: I think the feeling was

that we're going to throw
all our resources at this,

and our history is such
that generally speaking,

we get to the bottom of it.

Reporter: According to a spokesman

for the Organized Crime Strike Force,

there will be a major announcement

concerning the Hoffa case
by the end of this week.

(helicopter sounds overhead)

Keith: I mean I believe these guys

were smarter than we sometimes
give them credit for,

and I think that when
they picked the people

that were going to get rid of Jimmy Hoffa,

they picked people who
they were 100 percent sure

would never reveal what they had done.

They knew how they were
going to get rid of the body

before they whacked him.

I mean there is no doubt
in my mind about that.

So they weren't driving around
looking for a place to go.

They weren't going to say,

"Let's put him in this temporary space

"and then we're going to move him."

They clearly had plenty of
time to do anything they wanted

with the remains of Jimmy Hoffa

between the time they
left the Machus Red Fox

and the time anybody
fully started looking,

which was 10, 11, 12:00 the following day.

I believe this thing was
planned out with precision.

They knew who was going to do it.

They knew how they were going to kill him,

and they knew where they were
going to dispose of the body.

(camera flash)

Richard: The reputation
of Anthony Giacalone

was that he was a brilliant man

who could have run one of the Big Three,

that he was that smart.

Keith: Feared by the average person

and well known to the media,

he had a very imposing personal presence.

That point, he was notorious for dressing

in a very flashy style.

Scott: He was a man of very few words

but was someone, with
just a nod of his head,

could make things happen,

such as people disappearing.

Voiceover: The Giacalones,

Joseph Giacalone and Vito
Giacalone were in yesterday,

but speculation as to
when you might be calling

Anthony Giacalone.

Investigator: You're going to
have to continue to speculate.

I wish I could help you,
but you know that I can't.

Reporter: Did your client [pled]
the Fifth or not, Mr. Early?

Atty. Early: I can only assume he did.

I advised him to do that.

He was only in there
a short minute or two,

and he came out.

I didn't ask him the question.

I assumed he did.

Reporter: You have no idea
what kind of questions

[unintelligible] in there?

Atty. Early: I doubt if it
got past his name and address.

Keith: Tony Giacalone that day shows up

at the Southfield Athletic Club,
(camera flash)

spends the entire day at the
Southfield Athletic Club.

He was known by many
people to be a very sort of

surly taciturn kind of guy,

but he must have asked 50 people

at the Southfield Athletic Club,

"What time is it now?

"You got the time?

"You got the time?"

Scott: Never talked to anybody.

They didn't need to talk,

especially didn't talk
to regular civilians

on a regular basis.

He was going around
shaking everyone's hand,

asking people what time it was,

how their day was going

to establish an alibi for himself.

According to FBI surveillance records,

Jack Tocco, the acting boss

of the Detroit family at that time,

came from Macomb County to Oakland County

to meet with Giacalone.

Giacalone and Tocco were not very close.

They did not meet face to face very often.

The fact that Tocco was
coming to Oakland County,

coming to South Athletic
Club that afternoon

really told the FBI and investigators

that something very
important had just happened.

(sinister music)

Chuckie O'Brien was a
surrogate son, if you will,

to Jimmy Hoffa.

He was also very close to Tony Giacalone.

His mother, Sylvia Pagano,
was a bit of a gun moll,

one of those women that
got passed around the mob.

She had affairs with several members

of organized crime in Detroit,

two of them being Jimmy
Hoffa and Tony Giacalone.

He'd had a falling out with Jimmy Hoffa

and had really aligned
with Tony Giacalone.

Attorney: After my
client's full cooperation

with the Federal Bureau of Investigation,

the Michigan State Police,

and the Bloomfield Township Police

for a total of nearly eight
hours of intensive interviewing

on an entirely voluntary basis,

I am surprised and somewhat
chagrined, as a matter of fact,

that the government now feels compelled

to make further inquiry of Mr. O'Brien.

Reporter: Do you expect
to see your father again?

Chuckie: I'm praying.

Scott: O'Brien was said
to have been in possession

of Giacalone's son,
Joey's car that afternoon,

the car that the FBI and
investigators believe

Hoffa was kidnapped in.

Keith: Why was he using
a Giacalone kid's car

on that particular day?

That's always been an issue
that fascinated the Bureau

and caused them to look
into Chuckie O'Brien.

Scott: Now, the issue that I have

with that specific allegation

is the fact that Hoffa
and O'Brien at that time

had really, really been
on very, very bad terms

and that Jimmy Hoffa
would not feel comfortable

getting in a car with Chuckie O'Brien.

Despite that, there are a
lot of people that believe

O'Brien was the one that took Hoffa

from the Red Fox to the
place that he was murdered.

Keith: I don't think they
would have felt comfortable

with Chuckie O'Brien out there as a guy

who could point a finger at them.

Richard: What worse person
could you put in charge

of your life and with
getting critical information

than Chuckie O'Brien?

Keith: Why do they have
to borrow anybody's car?

Have some guy steal a
car and give it to you,

two, three layers of removal,

and then you pick it up.

These guys wouldn't have
trouble getting a car.

David: The Hoffa [unintelligible] says

that he was basically
incompetent and a liar.

Why didn't they kill O'Brien afterward?

Why would they leave him alive?

Why would they leave
any of these guys alive?

Scott: I don't believe that
the organized crime members

that set this hit up
would use Chuckie O'Brien

in any way, shape, or form

other than very, very menial tasks.

And frankly, being the one to drive Hoffa

to his murder destination
is not a menial task.

(suspense music)

George: Tony Pro was a capital
in the Genovese crime family,

and the Genovese crime
family, in my estimation,

was the most powerful,

the most well-run, and the most organized

of the five New York families,

Tony Pro controlled Teamsters
Local 560 out of North Jersey.

Voiceover: Today, Provenzano acknowledged

Hoffa was an old friend,

but he said he hadn't seen him in years

and could shed no light
on Hoffa's disappearance.

Reporter: Were you supposed
to meet with Hoffa today -

Tony: No, no.

I know nothing.

None whatsoever, no.

Woody: Did you manage to
finish testimony before-

Bill: Yes, we did.

Yes, we did, Woody.

Woody: Why so brief, sir?

Bill: It wasn't that brief.

Woody: No?

Bill: They asked questions
and we gave answers.

Reporter: [unintelligible]

Bill: I don't believe that we would serve

any worthy purpose to discuss
out here on the street

what transpired in the grand jury room.

They have a job to do, and
they are doing their very best,

and we wish them luck.

Dan: We knew there was an eye witness

who had kind of, but not quite,

identified Sal Briguglio.

David: His problem was that he
had read newspaper accounts,

and I think he was trying to
sort of help the FBI along

rather than simply being
an untainted witness.

But the problem was they didn't know

if his information was
coming from news reports

or whether it was untainted
information he had witnessed.

Scott: Briguglio was a
old-school grizzle gangster

that really looked the part

and someone that really didn't
flash a smile that much.

It's a wide belief that
Briguglio and Andretta

were sent by Provenzano to Detroit

to be his representatives
on the Hoffa hit.

(suspense music)

Dan: We knew that a
guy named Ralph Picardo

was telling the FBI

what they knew about Jimmy Hoffa's murder.

According to Ralph Picardo,

Hoffa is stuffed into a 55-gallon drum

and shipped via Gateway
Transportation truck

to an unknown destination.

Al: And this is what the
FBI's initial understanding

of the case was.

Dan: So you have Russell Bufalino,

who is the acting head of
the Genovese crime family.

You have Tony Provenzano, who is a capo

in the Genovese crime family.

Then you have his guys, Sal
Briguglio, Gabe Briguglio,

Tommy Andretta, Stevie Andretta

being the guys who were
actually the mechanics

in this operation.

Richard: Two people can keep
a secret if one is dead.

There isn't a want or
a need for information

and they don't know about
it or want to know about it

for that very purpose.

David: Does it make any
sense that you would carry

Jimmy Hoffa around in a 55-gallon barrel

when you could just simply
take him to Central Sanitation

and dispose of the body?

I think that that's where the feds

eventually landed on that.

George: It just bottom
line makes no sense at all.

You don't kill somebody

and then cart their body across country.

Nobody in the underworld is
going to do that kind of stuff.

(slow beat music)
(sinister music)

Dan: The next day, I pick up the phone.

I call Sal Briguglio up

and asked for him at Local 560.

He gets on the phone and he says,

"Yeah, who's this?"

and I said, "My name is Dan Moldea,"

and he says, "What do you need?"

and I said, "I'm a journalist

"and I'd like to come and talk to you."

He says, "What do you want to talk about?"

I said, "The Hoffa disappearance."

He goes, "What makes you think

"I have anything to say about that?"

I said, "Because, Mr. Briguglio,

"you've neither been
indicted nor arrested,

"and the entire world is saying

"that you killed Jimmy Hoffa,

"and the government is
putting this information out,

"and I think the government
might be violating

"your civil rights."

Bill: We are innocent.

We're presumed to be innocent.

We remain-

Dan: But you must theorize
on why the government

is doing this to you,

and this goes back to how-

Bill: No, you know they're
a bunch of motherfuckers.

Dan: The possibility of Hoffa's body

being stuffed in a 55-gallon drum pickled,

maybe put in a liquid preservative.

Bill: Well, man, what the hell?

Would you ever pickle
anybody and keep preserving?

I'd like to put yourself in
the position of the bad guy.

Would you try to perserve him?

Two [powers] out of Chicago

met their Maker at the expense

or at the hands of the CIA

because -

Dan: Roselli and Giancana?

Bill: Yeah, Roselli and Giancana.

Now, you'd be better off asking the CIA

to investigate the FBI

and the FBI to investigate with CIA,

and then there you'd have the answer.

(suspense music)

Dan: This guy was a giant.

He was a big guy,

had a glass eye too.

One eye would be following
you wherever you went,

and the other eye was
just staring straight at

and into the distance.

He was a scary guy.

Keith: McMaster was a
larger than life character

both physically and story-wise.

He was a business agent for the Teamsters.

He was involved in union activities,

organizing, getting union votes.

He probably weighed 300
pounds and was 6'6 or 6'7,

huge hands,

personally an intimidating guy,

and I think if you wanted
to send the message

to people to physically intimidate them,

Rolland McMaster was the guy who,

if he showed up at your door,

probably generated that kind of reaction.

Dan: I mean McMaster was working

with Santo Trafficante
down in Miami for sure.

McMaster was part of the Cuban process.

McMaster knew a lot of stuff.

A lot of people viewed
McMaster as a knuckle dragger.

This guy was a sharp guy.

Scott: I tend to agree with
him that Rolland McMaster

could have played a role
in the assassination.

He was one of the most
trusted non-Italian,

non-mob union members

and someone that had a lot of knowledge

of past union mob relationship,

union mob wrongdoing.

Dan: Because I was convinced
that Rolland McMaster

and his zombie stooges who worked for him

were somehow involved
in Jimmy Hoffa's murder

and probably responsible for the disposal

of Jimmy Hoffa's body.

I believe that.

I got a call on that on August 4th, 1975.

That's five days after Jimmy Hoffa's,

and I have not moved from
that position since then.

Everything I have seen and heard

reinforces everything I believe.

David: There was a lot of
violence going on in the Teamsters

in the months leading up
to Hoffa's disappearance.

Dan Moldea believes that
Rolland was involved,

deeply involved and probably
knew what happened to Hoffa.

Dan: Hoffa people being under siege,

where their houses were being bombed,

their boats were being bombed.

You had people being shot.

Keith: People today don't realize

bombings of businesses
and union officials' cars

and these kinds of things

were much more common occurrence.

Dan: The real action is right in Detroit.

This is where it's all happening.

This Local 299 violence is a big story,

and everybody is ignoring it.

David: He was going after
this story full board.

He was willing to put himself
in harm's way to get the book.

Dan: There was one guy who
was so upset about McMaster,

that I was asking questions about Mc ...

and this is a Hoffa guy.

This is a guy I felt comfortable with.

The guy pulls a gun out
and sticks it in my mouth.

Yeah, sticks the fucking gun in my mouth.

Scott: Less than two months
before Hoffa disappeared,

Little Fitz, Richard Fitzsimmons,

the son of Frank Fitzsimmons,

the current Teamsters president,

had his car blown out in
the parking lot of Nemo's,

a popular tavern right by the 250 Local.

There was a lot of people that believed

that Hoffa set that bomb

and tried to kill Fitz and Little Fitz.

There are other people that believe

that there were actual Teamster goons

that set that bomb and that car

to make it look like
Hoffa was trying to kill

the Fitzsimmons and in return
would get Hoffa killed.

Voiceover: Teamster
president Frank Fitzsimmons

is now a principal figure
in the investigation

of the disappearance of James Hoffa.

But federal agents on the Hoffa case

are now taking a very close
look at Fitzsimmon's activities

just before and just
after Hoffa disappeared.

(suspense music)

Dan: It's impossible to believe

that the guys who were behind
all of this Local 299 violence

which goes right up until 20
days before Hoffa disappears

with the bombing of Fitz and his car

and that these guys aren't
involved in the [denouement]

when Jimmy Hoffa disappears on July 30th?

Please.

Scott: On the other hand,

you look at it and you say to yourself,

well, the Mafia families
in New York, in Detroit,

they had a long list of
very, very established

and well-honed executioners,

hitmen, if you will,

and it makes you think

why would they bring
in a guy like McMaster

when they have so many
guys that can do the job

in their own backyard?

Keith: They wouldn't have
trouble finding a house

or a location to do
whatever they wanted to do.

And I don't think they would leave it

on a piece of property they own

or in a barn on Rolland
McMaster's property,

unless they're trying to
frame Rolland McMaster.

(suspense music)

Voiceover: We broke the story yesterday

how Frank Sheeran claims he shot Hoffa

two times in the back of
the head in his house.

Sheeran was a Delaware
Teamsters union president,

a self-confessed mob hitman,

a close friend of Jimmy Hoffa,

and the subject of a new book.

He says the mob ordered Hoffa's death

to prevent him from running

for the Teamsters' presidency.

Scott: Frank Sheeran was a
high-ranking union official

out of Pennsylvania and Delaware,

as well as a high-ranking mob associate

that was very close to Russell Bufalino.

He was Bufalino's bodyguard and driver.

He was another man that would often act

as a go-between or a liaison

between the mob and Hoffa.

(sinister music)

David: They stopped at Port
Clinton in Ohio, near Toledo.

Sheeran gets out, climbs
on a small private plane,

and they fly to Detroit

and they land at the Pontiac Airport.

Sheeran gets on a car
that's waiting for him,

drives to this location,

picks up a couple of guys,

goes up to the Machus
Red Fox to get Jimmy,

bring him back, and Sheeran kills him.

But I had a pilot tell me you
can't just fly a private plane

to Pontiac Airport Metro Airport.

You got to get around
the air traffic area.

And he found his story to
be a little improbable.

George: You're going to get
somebody like Frank Sheeran

who also claims to have been involved

in the murder of Joey Gallo

and also claims to have provided the guns

that were used in the
Kennedy assassination.

Well, if those things are true,

this guy sitting under the
radar for a very, very long time

and it's kind of hard to believe.

Dan: They heard that
Sheeran was writing a book,

and they wanted to bring
me on as a consultant

about Sheeran.

But then that one fell apart

because they just caught
him in so many lies

and that apparently, Maria
Shriver had done the interview.

Once again, they're going to
bring me on as a consultant,

and once again, Sheeran's lies just cause

the whole thing to fall apart.

In 2001, he says Sal
Briguglio was the killer.

Then 2003, when Dateline NBC calls me,

there was one different thing.

I said, "What's that?"

He says, "Sheeran's now
claiming that he is the killer."

And I go, like, "He is saying himself

"that he did the job?"

And he said, "Yeah."

He says, "What's more valuable,

"a book by a guy who was there

"or a book by a guy who
actually pulled the trigger?"

David: I don't know what motivates a guy

to make up the story
that says he killed Hoffa

before he died.

Well, these guys don't think
the way the rest of us do.

I mean Sheeran was mostly
concerned about the money

because he was going to
die and he was broke,

and he needed to leave
some money to his family.

Keith: I never bought
the Frank Sheeran story.

I mean if you're the Mafia, all right?

If you're organized crime

and you're going to kill
a person like Jimmy Hoffa,

kidnap and kill him,

why would you bring a guy

who's not part of your organization,

who's not subject to the
rules and discipline,

who hasn't agreed to what you believe in?

Why would you bring in
somebody from the outside?

They certainly had more
than enough people capable

and, in the government's opinion,

more than enough people who
murdered people in the past?

There is no need to go
outside and find anybody else.

Scott: I have a hard
time believing his story

strictly based on the fact

where he claims the murder took place.

He claims it took place
off 7 Mile in Detroit

on a street named Beaverland,

which would be a good 20, 25-minute drive

from the Machus Red Fox.

And it's a house that he
can't source to anybody,

he can't claim whose house it was

or why they took him there.

Dan: There was a DNA analysis done

on the blood stains found in
the entrance to the house.

They proved not to be Hoffa,

which was really
disappointing to a lot of us

because we really wanted
to see this thing done

once and for all.

Scott: I personally have
a difficult time believing

that the Mafia would set up the Hoffa hit

in any place that wasn't 100% controlled.

(sinister music)

Richard: He thought he
was speaking to somebody

who was a large-scale Italian
drug importer from Europe

who came through Canada.

And Tony Palazzolo
brought the RCMP officer

to this sausage factory.

And as the RCMP officer described it,

it was like a

organized crime hall of fame.

When he walked in, he
saw pictures on the wall

of Lucky Luciano, Al Capone.

There were crossed shotguns,

as if they were crossed sabers.

During the course of that conversation,

which was used at the trial,

Tony Palazzolo pointed to the
Auger, which was enormous,

and he said, "That's
where Jimmy Hoffa is,"

or was.

"That's where we put him."

And that is where I
believe Jimmy Hoffa went.

I think he was ground up, churned up,

and put in sausage or otherwise.

Scott: Tony Palazzolo is definitely known

as someone that was looked at

as a possible participant
in the Hoffa hit.

He is someone that is
currently in the 2000s

a Detroit mob captain

but at the time of the disappearance

was a up-and-coming young buck in the mob

that had made his name
as a bodyguard and driver

for Peter "Bozzi" Vitale.

The Vitales are another group of mobsters

that had a lot of close
ties with Jimmy Hoffa

and the Teamsters.

The fact that Tony Palazzolo

might have been involved in this

is frankly very easy to believe.

Keith: How did they get Jimmy into a car

when he was at the Red Fox

supposedly meeting Tony Giacalone?

If he goes, they seize him.

Who went to meet him?

Who was there to pick him up?

And who was there to explain

why he couldn't go with Tony Giacalone?

Billy Giacalone, his
whereabouts on that day

are certainly not nearly as
well known as his brother's.

If Billy had said, "Hey, look, Jimmy,

"Tony can't make it.

"He is here or there.

"Let's get in the car."

Dan: I know Vito Giacalone
is in this thing.

Vito Giacalone is right in the
middle of this whole thing.

I just can't figure out
exactly where he is.

Mike: The State Police have been following

Billy Giacalone around that
week that Hoffa disappeared.

They went out that morning
that Hoffa disappeared

looking for him, and
they couldn't find him,

and nobody saw him all day,

so that tells me that
he was probably there

as the Detroit representative.

Scott: I believe, after
talking to numerous sources,

both in the FBI and on the street itself,

guys that are actually in the mob,

I believe that Hoffa was
taken less than two miles away

to the house of Carlo Licata.

Licata was a Detroit mob
member, a mob soldier,

who was the brother-in-law
of Jack and Tony Tocco.

Licata's house was less
than a five-minute drive

from the Machus Red Fox.

Licata's house was also a
place that Hoffa had been

to meet the Giacalones on
several occasions before.

It was a house that was
used as a meeting point.

Licata himself was a trusted
member of the family,

related to the administration,

as well as the house was
almost a perfect location

in the sense that it was back on a hill,

removed from the road.

Greg: We think that he probably went to

Licata's house that wasn't too far.

Mike: I think they got him in a house,

and I think Billy Giacalone
was probably there.

I think somebody like
Andrettas, Briguglio,

somebody like that was there,

and he was killed,

and then he was taken and
disposed of pretty quickly.

Greg: We think that they
disposed of the body

by taking it to the sanitation place

where they had contacts.

Scott: I'm convinced that
within a half hour to a hour

of Hoffa breathing his last breath

that he was incinerated,

that the body ceases to exist,

and the ability to get rid of the body

was incredible with the Detroit mob

in the sense that they had three separate

sanitation companies all
owned by mob members,

and the one that everyone
looks at primarily,

Central Sanitation,

was owned by Jimmy Quasarano,

(camera flash)

Paul and Peter Vitale,

and Carlo Licata.

Keith: There are a number
of people that think

Central Sanitation, the facility,

played a role in the
disappearance of the body

of James Hoffa,

and clearly, Quasarano and Vitale

would have been people,

because of their equity
interest in that company,

who would have,

had to be involved in the decision.

And remember, shortly after
the events took place,

Central Sanitation burned to the ground.

Scott: And what I believe

really puts the theory over the edge

is that on the sixth-year anniversary

of Hoffa's disappearance,

on July 30th, 1981,

Carlo Licata himself ended
up dead at that house

of two gunshot wounds to the chest.

(gunshot)

It was ruled a suicide,

but there are a lot of people,

both on the street and in law enforcement,

that believe this was
anything but a suicide,

that this was a message.

Keith: And obviously, Mr.
Licata met his demise in that

whether it's generally considered
to be a pedestrian manner.

Scott: Anyone that would even
consider giving information

about the Hoffa hit, no
matter how close they are

to the leaders of the mob,

they will be sacrificed.

(sinister music)

Voiceover: The report
names Carlos Marcello

and Santo Trafficante

as the most likely organized crime bosses

to have been involved.

It provides evidence,
some of it inconclusive,

that they and Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa

threatened John Kennedy,
Robert Kennedy, or both.

Further, it suggests
associations through which

they could have influenced
accused assassin,

Lee Harvey Oswald,

or Oswald's killer, Jack Ruby.

Teamster boss Hoffa
threatened John Kennedy,

Robert Kennedy, or both.

The committee documents still
unexplained phone contacts

between Hoffa aides and Ruby

within a month of the assassination

and says Hoffa had the
motive, opportunity, and means

to plan the murder.

Richard: Now prior to that,

there were two witnesses who
were also subpoenaed to appear

before the Church Committee,

Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana,

and both of whom were executed

prior to their testimony.

So there is speculation that
Jimmy Hoffa would have gone

to that committee and
would have testified,

at least in part truthfully.

It's certainly clear

that those three murders were connected.

Dan: The CIA-Mafia plots to kill Castro

really weren't known
until many years later,

when Johny Roselli started talking,

and then the Church
Committee had their hearings,

and it was understood that
Jimmy Hoffa was cooperating

with the Church Committee.

Richard: I think that
that was the culmination

and the concern of the people or person

who ended Jimmy Hoffa's life,

that before that committee,

Jimmy Hoffa was going to say something

that nobody wanted him to say.

(sinister music)

Keith: By 1990, I became the chief

of the Organized Crime
and Racketeering Section,

and it was my unit that was charged

with investigating the
Hoffa disappearance.

You would hear stories of
guys who claim they were

asked to dispose of a car
or bring a package here

or bring a box here,

and the Bureau correctly
assiduously pursued all of those,

but I never believed that.

I think that these guys knew

that they had to keep this operation

to members of their own organization,

keep the number of people involved

in any substantive way
as small as possible.

Richard: Every time a
wise guy was picked up

or every time a case was indicted,

if it was traditional La Cosa Nostra,

people would be asked about it,

then they would inherently
give the same answer,

which was nothing.

Keith: I would say the one that we became

most excited about and
ultimately turned out

not particularly beneficial

was the DNA evidence
on the hair sample and-

Greg: Analysis was done,

hair or more than one
hair was found in the car

in the passenger compartment of the car

that indicated that Hoffa
had been in that car.

We had hair from his hairbrushes,

and he said categorically unequivocally

that that dog had put Hoffa,

Hoffa's scent in the trunk of that,

of Joey Giacalone's Mercury.

That gives you the idea
that he was transported

wherever he was killed in
the passenger compartment,

and for whatever reason,

when he was transported somewhere else,

he was in the trunk.

David: Hoffa had been in that car.

But the question is was he in
the car the day that he died

or the day that he disappeared?

Who knows?

Voiceover: In 2003, investigators
dug under a swimming pool

in Northern Michigan.

In 2004, they ripped up the
floorboards of a Detroit house.

Carol: Just where is Jimmy Hoffa?

And that question hasn't been answered

since the Teamsters boss
disappeared three decades ago.

But this week, the FBI showed
up at a Michigan horse farm

and started digging.

Dan: And I jumped out of my seat

and I did a quadruple fist pump,

hoping that it was the
farm I wanted it to be.

And slowly but surely,

the information came out,

and it was Rolland McMaster's farm.

They tore down the barn.

They had to rebuild
the barn, public money,

controversy.

The congressman out there raised hell,

and the dig stopped.

But the FBI said,

their last statement to
the New York Times was,

"We believe that Hoffa's
body is buried here

"and that it has not been moved,

"and we may return to this place."

Mike: You're always going
to have some boss somewhere

that wants to make his or her career

on the fact that they were
the one who was in charge

when they found Jimmy Hoffa.

Bob: My name is Bob Foley.

I'm with the FBI's Detroit Division.

With me here, I've got Mike Bouchard,

Oakland County Sheriff,

and Geof Gaudard

with the Bloomfield
Township Police Department.

The FBI and our partners
are here this morning

to execute a search warrant

based on information that we have

involving the disappearance
of Jimmy Hoffa.

Keith: There's really stories that

he heard this story from Tony Giacalone.

Tony: Mr. Hoffa was picked up

and taken and buried alive.

[crosstalk]

Voiceover: Anthony Zerilli
gave the information

claiming that the property
that Hoffa was put on

at the time was owned by Jack Tocco,

his cousin and the convicted
mob godfather of Detroit.

Keith: Looking for money,

he's had some financial reversals.

He's looking for money,
trying to write a book,

trying to get somebody
to pay him some money.

Richard: Who has a Twitter account,

who has a website and Facebook,

and a website that says HoffaFound.com,

writing a book,

who's supposedly going to disclose

where Jimmy Hoffa is buried.

It's a kind of behavior that would make

Lucky Luciano spin in his grave.

And that's what
traditional organized crime

has come to here, at
least here in Detroit.

Scott: To me, it is a
giant wild goose chase.

The fact that there are
people running around

trying to find a body is ludicrous.

Richard: Solving that crime,
very improbable at best.

Mike: I think it would be
nice, but it's not essential.

I think there's other
more important things

the Bureau is involved in nowadays

than solving Jimmy Hoffa's murder

Dan: This does not happen in America.

This murder must be solved.

Keith: I don't know any case

in the history of the federal government

criminal investigation

that has been looked at

as many different ways and
as many different times.

George: There's no easy
answer to any of this,

and I don't think we're
ever going to know.

(sinister music)

(rewinding tape)

(gunshot)

(light music)

Dr. Russell: Yeah, I think
both the champions of Hoffa

and his detractors are wrong.

His champions think

that he was this great,
wonderful, crusading union leader

who cared about the working
class and his rank and file.

I don't see any evidence for that.

His detractors see him as
this immoral satanic figure

who was willing to sell out
his members for anything.

Hoffa was simply a product of his times.

Hoffa was militant because he had to be.

Hoffa was able to be
militant because he could be.

Hoffa was simply interested

in advancing himself and his career

and enlarging his power within the union

and the labor movement.

He had no other motives.

He was a product of his times,

and that explains why he was who he was.

Al: Jimmy Hoffa had
outlived his usefulness,

and he knew too much,

so it was just easier to kill him.

He had played a very complex game

for a long time,

and eventually, he overplayed his hand,

and that was it.

Dr. Buccellato: Was he a true believer?

Because I think early on,

he was a true believer in terms of

workers' rights.

It becomes difficult for him to detach

(slow piano music)

from these partnerships that
he formed with the underworld.

People are coming after him

within his own labor movement.

The feds are coming after him.

I think that's a nice
way of thinking about it,

is Shakespearean tragedy.

How do you navigate
through these complicated

moral questions?

Al: If it wasn't for Jimmy
Hoffa and others like him

to fight on behalf of workers,

there wouldn't have been
that huge middle class

that girded the country
during the so-called

golden age of the '50s and '60s.

He had to get his hands dirty to do it,

and he loved the power and
the perks that came with it,

but so do politicians like the Kennedys,

and so do the so-called captains
of industry who he battled.

He didn't go to an Ivy League college,

he wasn't born with connections,

but he became one of the most
powerful men in the country,

one of the most loved men

and one of the most hated.

(dramatic music)

They don't make men like
Jimmy Hoffa anymore,

at least not in America.

(sinister music)

(soft music)

Man in glasses: I believe the Teamsters

are never going to take anything away

from their dedication to Mr. Hoffa

because he happens to be the person

that they knew and respected

for a great number of years.

I think they're all going to be delighted

over the fact that he's home.

I've had the association
of knowing Mr. Hoffa

since he was a young man of 17

and I was a youth of 18,

and I hope that the
fact that I'm a Teamster

is not going to deny me the right

to be able to say hello to him.

(soft music)