Moldea,D. The Hoffa Wars. 1978
Moldea, Dan E. The Hoffa Wars. New York: Charter Books, 1978. 450 pages.
In 1975, the Church Committee exposed the CIA's efforts to use the Mafia
to assassinate Castro. Sam Giancana was murdered before he could testify
in front of the Committee, and Jimmy Hoffa disappeared that year also.
John Roselli testified, but then his dismembered body was found floating
in an oil drum. By that time the House Select Committee on Assassinations
wasn't too eager to look further. Fortunately there are some journalists
still doing the work that Congress should have done long ago.
The Hoffa Wars is the best treatment available of Hoffa's career with
the Teamsters and organized crime. Selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club
and syndicated by the New York Times, it has been through numerous printings
and translated into French, Italian, and Japanese. It was also the first
book to take a closer look at Mafia involvement in the JFK assassination,
at a time when most Warren Commission critics were just becoming aware of
Jack Ruby's many links with Mafia figures.
This is one of four books in NameBase by Dan Moldea, who has
specialized in organized crime investigations since 1974. His interest in
the Kennedy assassinations also continues; in 1990 he interviewed over 100
Los Angeles police officers, and concluded that more slugs were recovered
than could have fit in Sirhan's gun. Moldea lives in Washington, DC.
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