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Abbott Howard Hoffman insisted there was a mafia. It was a great debate in _ Washington (unintelligible) there was a mafia with Mr. OES Hoover saying there wasn't. Then he changed his mind when m, he got jurisdiction over the mafia,then he said there was one. Onily....he had to have his way so he called it La _ Cosa Nostra. C Abbie Hoffman; 4 One thing that's intriguing Jack is the one guy ‘ with the pencil and the @#lephone down there in Washington : and here we have, well, CBS News, in New York alone CBS has ‘ more than 400 people on their news team, NBS has more ; than 500 and yet when it comes to investigative reporting - they seem to bog down. How do you get your information? Is it all gone through garbage? S Jack Andersony: fi co well, when we...after we went through Hoover's Po garbage we got a lot of mail from people saying that they bo had suspected all along that's where we got our information, But that isn't.....we get about 300 letters a day. We have the reputation for it so people write to us and people who nave atories to tell lock to us to investigate them. Mostly you get them by digging. You're sure not going to get any pO out of @ press handout, Youre not going to get any at a i press conference and I think it's true that TV doesn't cover Re this side of Washington, this side of the country. I thing wg too many TV commentators are repeaters rather than reporters, Abbie Hoffman: Do you suppress any stories because of your own political convictions, your own ideas about the country and aw 44 anata 2A MWR 4A VY LWA aYv i gack Anderson: I was tempted once. I got a story on Sentor Wallace B (unintelligible) and my kids were playing with his grandson and I was tempted because I figured I was gonna (unintelligible) problem at the playground. But I decided against it and ran the story. Abbie Hoffman; ° f we kid the FBI, (unintelligible) comical] as we've been doing, is tBate Sanger inthat I mean... = 12 «