FBI Vault: Jimmy Hoffa, Part 02

The second Vault part on the Hoffa disappearance, 183 pages: Detroit agents' transcriptions of broadcast interviews about the case from November 1976, then teletypes and press clippings on the investigation into the 1980s.

Date: 1976/1985
Kind: case-file
Source: FBI Records: The Vault (viewer)
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Rights: A record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a work of the United States government and in the public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. Broadcast transcripts and newspaper clippings filed inside the part are described, not relied on. No page image is stored here.

Part 02 of the FBI’s Hoffa file has 183 pages. It opens with Detroit agents’ word-for-word transcriptions of broadcast interviews about the case. Among them is a CBS “60 Minutes” segment of 7 November 1976, taped from the Detroit station WJBK. Teletypes follow, and then press clippings on the investigation and the HOFFEX case reaching into the 1980s.

The date span given here is taken from the documents read: the November 1976 transcript at the start and clippings that mention December 1982 and later. Only the opening of each page was read.

The interviews and clippings speak about people who were never charged in the case. They are statements made to reporters, collected by the FBI, and are not findings. This page does not repeat them, and no page image is stored because the first page names a private person.

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