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The ATF once suggested that Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers Union bombed themselves
by
JPat Brown
When we first looked at Cesar Chavez’s FBI file, the Bureau was questioning the young labor organizer’s integrity. Decades later, a different Department of Justice component cast doubt on Chavez and the union he ran - even going so far as to suggest they had bombed themselves for the “publicity.”