ARMS FACTORY RAID YIELDS 373 MACHINE GUNS

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CIA-RDP73-00475R000401580001-9
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December 27, 2016
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December 19, 2013
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March 27, 1965
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STAT frit ? mvp-Ar. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000401580001-9 MAR 2- 7 1965 ? ..2 Arms Factory Raid Yields 373! Machine Guns . _ _ . ? ? ?coat. They fire' a mm: t. at a repotted rate .of 35 ? RV WALTER AMES and ? kounds a second. ? CHARLES E DAVIS JR anti Castro .. ' '?? '. !' ? friWhen the raiding,' party ,. . . - ? -.?? Tint's Staff Writers ? 4,-. .. ' . The search .;:lartint issued ,shiered the one-story., plant, Investigators seized 37;l by' Munkipal 'Judge: Fred they found four employes . . . , .. i 1. Rabb of' . Citrus . Municipal: there. The : agents said machine guns late Frit* d , ' I. C. :6 u et. in West ,C.n v i ii a George Ingram was the man a City of Industry arms, plant charged.i that: I lie...,comParty in charge and that he in, "to prevent them from fall.:,. : had no slate .pernat for pps-? Ing into the hands of private; sess1", 'qr sale ..o.f... machine pinies in California.' . - .iguns. - . ?; Armed with a search war-:ILyHn"c0hwa' ed,%.:leitit.c?..4'."AthIpt...impGliecsiiii: rant, ?the raiding party, en-. lions were much mire seri- tered the Erquiaga' ?Arms. ' ous.and that there had been Co.,'- 15036 M: Proctor Ave,,: ;f reports the .guns wotild be just. after 5 pin. ' t.sold illegally to U.S. ?Citlz,ens. 'They found the machine,,, "Speed was necessiryOn giins stacked in racks,- milz-'? ' "sp ? ' zles, down. They also seized? 's ' y , office has definite., inf. 'plant is only two long city about .100 000 rounds of aftt-!Plir !munition 'and three?machine.1,Ination that some of theAsaltilocks from the City of In- , legal Weapons formed them ,Erquiaga 'was out of the country. ;. Workers at an adjacent plant told reporters the ma.: chine guns were frequently tested in an area behind the aims plant, test rounds being fired into a barrel. This news surprised Sher- iff's Lt. E. D. Villines who led deputies on the raid: The were, ? lgun silencers which had ?.for..rnivate armies' in Califor- .. - ? 'A spokesman for the attor- I ? Former Ca.stroite? ? .:.nev.? general identified such ? The ? raid . was ? made by:I-extremist organizations as iabout 30 federal and state the Minutemen and the Ran- :agents and deputy sheriff's, gers ss among intended reci- 'Atty. Gen. Thomas?C: Lynchl pients, Lynch has proposed a ;said. ? ,? ? ? . ..to? the state Legislature t The plant reportedly ts,Lurging that -such cirganiza- i owhed by Juan Erquiaga: ti.ons.be outlawed., ? ;was tinderstood that he is " The machine - guns ? are now on a trip to Guatemala!,,;..aliout 20. inches, long.. They It also ?Was,? understood that t.have a Pistol grip Instead oX Emiaga once' was .a inerfv,:.:a. stock; so. one 'could. easq -,?-? ? ???? L" ? illoirer40.4.6.0t4arl ?A 4?1 ibeen built inside empty beer; . inia. tuns. , dustry. sheriff's 'office. ' Mach of the machine guns bore the'. Marking *JURE" and 'below this, "MR64" and also the name "Erquiaga.". Although no arrests were made, Dep. Dist. Atty: Mau- rice Oppenheim; who. -pre- pared the search .warrant and lccompanied the raiding party, said evidence seized will be Studied by the -district attOrney'Sloffice'svith.a.Niew to possible.:11toSetution.'.:,-;?';;,.. The ratdOi'Sfsti6xit hoir t% the ,Ple stUdYlitir .ptt. ? Der gastro's .c;ntsCealed beneath a Mani liaper*-and,!,, r? , i ? ' Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-06475R000401580001-9