SEVEN YEARS LATER, JIMMY HOFFA CASE IS STILL A MYSTERY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000302430031-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2010
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: July 31, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WASHINGTON PCST
31 JULY 1982
Seven Years Later,
Jimmy Hoff a Case
Is Still a Mystery
By Mary Thornton
Wishington Post Staff Writer
DETROIT, July 30-Seven years ago today,
Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, leaving virtually no
trail. The body of the tough Teamster leader has
never been found, and investigators expect no im-
mediate break in the case.
Under Michigan law, James R. Hoffa can now
be declared legally dead, and his son, James P.
Hoffa, is in the process of filing the necessary pa-
pers, hopeful that the remaining Hoffa family can
close that chapter of their lives and begin the
three-year process of settling Hoffa's estate.
There are many theories about what happened
to Hoffa: that he was buried-in a Michigan corn-
field, in a New Jersey dump, or under countless
construction projects-or that he was ground up
and put in a Florida swamp.
The most popular theory, however, is that he
was compacted, shredded and incinerated at a
garbage disposal company in Hamtramck, just
outside Detroit. No one seems to believe Hoffa is
still alive.
But his legend dominates the Teamsters, even
today. William E. Bufalino, a 35-year Teamster
who was Hoffa's lawyer for 25 years, said sadly,
"There'll never be another one like that in the
Teamsters. If he was a woman, he'd be pregnant
every nine months. He didn't know
how to say no. He did so many fa-
vors for so many people."
Bufalino, whose office walls are
covered with pictures of himself with
Hoffa over the years at courthouses
and congressional committees, said
he believes the FBI or the CIA
might have had something to do
with the disappearance.
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