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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400050012-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: September 22, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

LAS VEGAS SLIM
Sanitizdd - Approveot tRgpse Ci
WASHINGTON; D.C. - Em-
:battled Jimmie Hoffa's most
'..loyal legions are on the left
'flank of the land.' It Is intriguing' in, literature and ?sppaking in
tthat some of the loudest. last behalf of Hoffa is Barry Bridges.
hurrahs for the man who is still, head of the, Pacific Cnasl long-
"technically the Teamsters' chief''shoremen's unlcn. Also aeJivc is
come from men who seek deal- Bridges' colleague Louis Gold-
??ings with the ? Chinese Commu-i Matt, , brilliant strategist and
ttist government and the 'Soviet secretary-treasurer. of Bridges'
These Are 'men Iwho have been
'called Communist activists by
.xworn witnesses in the courts
:and before congressional com
mittees. These are men who
have traveled with world Com-
;.munist labor leaders across the
globe and some of whom have
so Appreciated by the Russians
'that they were made honorary
members of the Soviet trade
,;union federation.
Itis'witli these men, and their
.:unions, that"Jim Hoffa .has tied
if they. And ihe?ptihlic, looked
r?losaly they would discover that,
rt7it of Nip moss Active of those
raising defense funds, rlistribut-
BRIDGES HELP
Who is Harry Brides, defend-
er of the faith , foe Jimmie,
Hoffa? He is, for example, the,
man who helped to launch the
"All Pacific and Asia Dockwnrk-
bra trade Union Conference"' in
the Orient. It has been meeting
regularly in Tokyo. Amongst. its
resolutipnS,:are del lands Lor the,
abblition.,of ,all, ~f. t. rrt4litary
bases.in japan,,and charges. that
there are slave lahgr Conditions
his union in written pacts callingi In 'the v i t a I U. S. base in
for joint action - industrial and; Okinawa.
.political. It is all. on'the record. It is Harry Bridges who is
Therefore, their defense qf. -him1Padin I the drive for open rela-
is understandable. Btat !