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f- Woo Whe re A f I cenateatat ements ae umstar — °°. Informer Sa VS CGast Plot to Kill Cesar*C Mpecta) be The Mer Tout Tune SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1— Despite the disclaimers of Fed- eral officials, qn unemployed daborer who describes himseif as a paid police informer insists that certain farmers in the San, Joaquin Valley of California, ordered tne S§S5a55iNnauGOn Ol Cesar Chavez, the farm union: Jeader. 7 The informer, Le ears, 32 years old, said that he had been offered $5,000 to partici-i te in the plot and that he on witnessed what appeared to be the payment of $30,000: to carry out the assassination. ; Mr. Shears, a thin, long- haired man who lives in Baker-, fied, offered a series of tape: meneetingws and Anenmante that. PELVIS Bie CTI bie he ¢aid demonstrated the verac- | ity of his story. Jerry Cohen, chief counsel to the United Farm Workers Or-/ ganizing Committee, has ex-' pressed concern for the safety of Mr. Chavez, who heads the union, and has said that he willl seek a Congressional in- vestigation. Warmed by Agenis Mr. Cohen said that last July 31 Federal agents secretiv warned the union that they had reason to believe an attempt to assassinate Mr. Chavez was be- organized. On one occasion Federa! agents were said to have provided protection for Mr. Chavez at a rally. But last, according to an As- sociated Press dispatch, a Fed- era] spokesman said that the, Government “now considers the case closed” after the informer was unable to provide any: proof of a plot. ‘ Mr. Chavez hat been 2 con- troversial figure in his union’s Jong and bitter struggle to or-. ganize and raise the crises of ¢_ California Horatebegetante Tae - vegeta es. @sSaSSl on. a ee ee ~” JEx-Official The investigation into the. alleged assassination plot was conducted by the Alcohol, To-, bacco and Firearms Enforce-. ment Division of the Internal Revenue Service, an arm of the Treasury Department. Various officiais of the en- forcement division on the West Coast with whom Mr. Shears. said he had dealings have de- clined to comment on the case aod have referred inquiries to’ Washington. | On Thursday a2 revenue serv- ice spokesman in Washington declined comment on the case, saying, “I.RS. bas an estab- fished policy of not comment- dng on investigations.” Donald W. Bacon, now @ tax eonsuitant with Gulf and West- em Industries, who until No- veber was Assistant Commis- sioner for Compliance at the revenue service, recalled that there had been -an investiga- “At one time there was a threat on Chavez's life. Some. time in early fali. There was ean alleged plot. I authorized pay- ment of an amount that might have included payment to an informant. 1 understood the information wasn't satisfactory and therefore he was not paid.” He added, “The attempt was never made on his life. The investigation stopped.” Two key men named by Mr. Shears as participants in the alleged plot have been arrested on unrelated charges, and one is still in jail. Neither was ed with organizing an One was ar- Ss He was Partcof yt | UNaves aviovds . Felt _ osen Mohr Bishop Miller, Callahan _ Casper —_ Conrad —_ Dalbey __ Cleveland Ponder Bat Waikart _ Walters — Soyars __ Teic, Roon Holmes __ Gandy ___ 7 oe SP =. 7 The Washington Post Times Herald The Washingion Daily Nev The Evening Star (Washin; The Sunday Star (Washingt Daily News (New York? _ Sunday News (New York _ New York Post The New York Times —2_ The Daily World The New [euder _ The Wall Sucot Jounal _ The National Observer People's World one JAN2 197.