By Steve Neavling
The Trump administration has directed FBI employees to search their workstations and digital media for any records related to the disappearance of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, according to two law enforcement sources who spoke to CNN.
The order, which was issued nearly a month into the ongoing government shutdown, is part of a series of unusual White House directives instructing the FBI to prioritize decades-old mysteries. Earlier this month, agents were told to look for records tied to aviator Amelia Earhart’s 1937 disappearance.
Hoffa, the powerful Teamsters president with deep ties to organized crime, vanished outside a Detroit-area restaurant on July 30, 1975. Despite years of searches across Michigan and beyond, the FBI has never found his remains.
The latest order follows similar requests from the Trump administration to declassify or release files tied to historic cases, including the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
The FBI declined to comment on the Hoffa directive.
