Page 12-Thursday, July 27, 1978-The Michigan Daily Where' Jimmy Hoffa? Three years later, investigation still active DETROIT (AP) - It should take a year or two to solve the kidnapping, the FBI said when it joined the search for the vanished labor leader. Today, the question remains: Where's Jimmy Hoffa? On July 30, 1975 - it will be three years Sunday - James R. Hoffa, one-time Teamsters president, one time federal prisoner, was seen leaving a restaurant in the Detroit suburbs. HE HAS NOT been seen since. He is presumed dead but no body has been found. None of the reputed Mafia figures under investigation in the case has been indic- ted. One has been slain. The other five have refused to answer grand jury questions under the Fifth Amen- dment. Government investigators insist they are making progress, however. Sources say the investigators, though some deny it, have been putting pressure on suspects in hopes of developing an informant. "The Hoffa case is still an active, open in- vestigation," says Paul Coffey, head of the Justice Department Organized Crime Strike Force in Detroit. AND HOFFA'S SON, James P., who a year ago ac- cused the government of not pressing hard enough to build a case against his father's killers, now says he is "encouraged by what's happening." He does not say what is happening, but one in- vestigator notes: "We're making headway by getting these guys in some other cases." AMONG "GUYS" gotten: -In March, New Jersey Teamsters boss and reputed Mafia figure AnthonyProvenzano was convicted in a kickback conspiracy case. He was sentenced to four years in prison. -In April, Teamsters organizer Charles "Chuckie" O'Brien, Hoffa's self-styled foster son, was convicted of lying on a bank loan application. It was his second conviction since Hoffa disappeared. -In June, Provenzano was sentenced to life im- prisonment after his conviction for the 1961 murder of union foe Anthony Castellito. Hoffa's disappearance also spurred probes of loan sharking and labor racketeering at Provenzano's union local. Those investigations involved the Hoffa case figures, according to Senate testimony by Robert Stewart, head of the strike force in Newark, N.J. Hoffa told acquaintances the day he vanished that he was on his way to see Provenzano and reputed Detroit Mafia figure Anthony Giacalone. BOTH MEN DENY they had an appointment with Hoffa that day. Investigators believe Hoffa wanted to settle a feud with Provenzano and enlist his support for a campaign to oust Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons. Agents have found an unusually large number of calls between Provenzano's Teamsters Local 560 in Union City, N.J., and phones used by Giacalone shortly IT's Fed FORT LAU Ml'{i Pf Et1 A judge rule old Feodor F 4 AI. citizenship h VV past as a gua Treblinka. U.S. Distri Roettger said himself bee aggression" failed to pro' any atrocities the camp. FEDOREN Miami Beach neighbors, wa civil charg naturalizatio If you see it happening, a U.S. citizen Call theBat 764- He admitte the United St 0552 Polish farme as a laborer said he lied o Soviet-domin before the disappearance. On the day of the disappearance, O'Brien, who grew up in Hoffa's -home and knew Giacalone as "Uncle Tony" borrowed a car from one of Giacalone's sons and was driving near where Hoffa was last seen. O'Brien depies he had any contact with Hoffa that day, but the FBI says he has not accounted for about one hour that afternoon. TWO WITNESSES have said they believe they saw Hoffa the day he disappeared with a group of men, two break the Hoffa case when they persuade a participant in the killing to turn informant and implicate the higher ups'who planned the crime. Among things the FBI has learned is that days after Hoffa disappeared, Stephen Andretta, then a business agent at Provenzano's local, visited a convicted mur- derer named Ralph Picardo in prison. Picardo told FBI agents that Andretta bragged that his brother, convicted loan shark and counterfeiter Thomas An- dretta, and brothers Salvatore and Gabriel Briguglio killed Hoffa. STEPHAN ANDRETTA SAYS he visited Picardo but did not discuss Hoffa. In the 1960s, Picardo had been recruited by Team- sters business agent Sal Briguglio and frequented Teamsters Local 84 at Fort Lee, N.J., where Proven- zano had installed Gabriel Briguglio as vice president. Stephen Andretta refused to say where he was the day Hoffa vanished but after being jailed for contempt of court, said that he was at Local 560 with his brother and the Briguglios. The local's employees testified before a grand jury but their testimony remains secret. SAL BRIGUGLIO was executed by two gunmen March 21 on a sidewalk in Manhattan's Little Italy. The crime has not been solved. The government had hoped to make Sal Briguglio an informant, and a U.S. attorney had warned him he might be killed by underworld rivals. Briguglio "wasn't terribly concerned," the official said. Hours after Briguglio was gunned down in New York, FBI agents offered O'Brien protection in Florida but he refused the offer. INVESTIGATORS ALSO ARE interested in Russell Bufalino of Kingston, Pa., who was in Michigan the day after the abduction, and' Frank Sheeran, the Wilmington, Del., Teamsters local president who drove Bufalino to Michigan. Sheeran had called Hoffa the day before the disappearance to say he hoped to visit Hoffa on Aug. 2. Bufalino has been identified by the U.S. Burean of Narcotics as "one of the most ruthless and powerful leaders of the Mafia in the United States." He is close to Provenzano and was in the Detroit area that weel for the wedding of a godchild. "We're interested in him from the point og view of what he might have known ahead of time about the Hoffa disappearance," one Justice Department in- vestigator said of Bufalino. Investigators believe Hoffa's body was buried somewhere in Michigan or was destroyed so that it would never be found. Still, one investigator says of Hoffa's presumed murder: "We don't know where he was killed, whether he was knocked unconscious in the car and taken someplace or whether he was killed in the car." of whom may be O'Brien and New Jersey Teamsters figure Sal Briguglio. Police dogs picked up Hoffa's scent in a car driven by O'Brien and blood of Hoffa's type was found on a strnd of hair resembling Hoffa's in the car. The government believes Hoffa was the victim of a contracted murder at the hands of one-time Teamster allies and some organized crime figures he had once welcomed into the nation's largest labor union. Hoffa resigned as Teamsters president in 1971 to hasten his prison release. He had been convicted of jury tampering and mail fraud. HE ACCUSED FITZSIMMONS, whom he had designated as caretaker president, of plotting with the Nixon administration to block him from re-entering union politics. He also accused disloyal union officials of letting racketeers bilk Teamsters benefit funds. Officials in Detroit and Washington say they will orenko allowed to keep citizenship DERDALE, Fla. (AP) - that he ever committed any atrocities. pasts when they entered1 d yesterday that 71-year- During the emotional trial, held for States. Frank Walus, a I edorenko can keep the U.S. two days near Fedorenko's old migrant, was recently found e won by concealing his hometown of Waterbury, Conn., and for judge in Chicago of lying ab rd at the Nazi death camp 13 days here, six Israeli survivors of activities as a Gestapo ages ct Court Judge Norman Treblinka testified that they saw been stripped of citizenship d the native Ukranian had Fedorenko torture and shoot Jewish subject to deportation, but n a "victim of Nazi prisoners. But Roettger said he pealed the conviction. and auled " tmrof questioned their credibility and said it nd ruled that prosecutors was possible some had even been Roettger said that if he ha ye Federenko committed coached. vinced Federenko was against the Jews while at THE JUDGE SAID he believed atrocities, "there is no dou Fedorenko was sincere when he defendant would not be JKO, WHO LIVES on testified that he was a guard only citizenship in a country whic with Jewish retirees for because the Nazis forced him to be one self on its adherence to pr s tried without a jury on a after taking him prisoner. "The court is equality and human dignity, e of lying on his firmly convinced that his answers.were citizenry largely comprises n papers when he became given guilelessly," Roettger said. is of immigrants who soul in 1949. Had Roettger ruled otherwise, from political oppression. d lying in order to come to Federenko could have been deported "However, this court mi ates by claiming to be a and forced to stand trial inngEurope on this case on the record bef r who was forced to work war crimes charges. added, "and the strict burd for the Germans. But he FEDORENKO IS ONE of a number has not been met. Neith nly to avoid being sent to of persons recently chirged by federa equitable balance tipped a ated territory and denied officials with falsely concealing Nazi defendant by his answers in1 the United Polish im- guilty by a out alleged nt. He has and is now he has ap- d been con- guilty of bt that the entitled to h prides it- inciples of and whose descenden- ight refuge ust decide are it," he en of proof er is the gainst -the X949."