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ABILENE, TEXAS, 79604, TillTeamsterLink WithMob ClaimedAmOilObilt;SpoiForiWASHINGTON (APi The w°' chief justice of the United States Ed,tConMaiand the Justice Department’s top rackets expert both ex- You pressed concern Wednesday TV over the extent of control organized crime wields in AmericansocietyTheir views were voiced inI he closing sessions of the two-dav National Conference onCrime Control. President Johnson had convened Ihe conference as a means to snark implementation of some of the more than 200 recommendationsmade last month bv his National (‘rime Commission. £Chief .Justice Karl Warrentold the 600 law enforcementofficials at the meeting that the same money and the same *•***underworld power that controlled crime in the days ofbootlegging and highjacking plagues us today in expanded form* *Definite LinksHenrv Peterson, head of the Justice Department’s organized crime and racketeering section, said definite links have beenestablished between the Cosa ra the national crimesyndicate and upper echelonsof the Teamsters Union and In- kternational Longshoremen’s As- rsoeiation. iPetersen delivered his remarks in a panel discussion and did not elaborate. Put he told a - *reporter later that the links had been discovered through the useof confidential informants. Justice Department investigators \ 1 ihe Senate rackets committee erand the New York Citv Water- su tront Commission dfPetersen refused to name, the ca union officials whom he consul- thers links with organized crime. Nor would he say whether thevare elected officials of the un-ion, I‘Slanderous’Teamster1' Vice President Frank E. Fitzsimmons sent a telegram to Petersen declaringthe union emphatically” denies the link and said, “Such slan-derous statements should certainly be based upon reliable evidence and not upon a 'moral ^1 certainty ’ ” He added, ’if youh a v eSeh\aris evidence which sup- jv' ports your charges, it should bepresented in court. GovPetersen told a reporter, Ourintelligence isn’t good enough to sav what the precise workingrelationship is But it’s more than clear that they do operate ,TLheightogether.He said, however, that be- ■5 cause a link has been estab- S12nlt; lished between the crime syndi- Sceate and the unions that’s not wine illegal per so. In order for ar- filibt rests to he made, he said, there re asmust he evidence of specific ant wrongdoing. *orPetersen added that just, the '1establishment of the links be- credtween the unions and the syndi- Daycate is sufficient “cause for con- 000corn ingrri i f
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Abilene Reporter News
Abilene, Texas, US
Thu, Mar 30, 1967
Page 38
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