PORTUGAL FLIGHTS ARE TIED TO C.I.A

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100600013-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: October 7, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

7 1966
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e colonel to "iay,
r PORTUGAL FLIGHTS by an Air Forc
f the case" and to "stop put-.
ARP TIED Ling on pressure."
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The defendants are John R.
Hawke, a bearded former Royal
Air Force pilot, now a resident
ry.?
U CrIeA ! He identified the officer as'
? Col. Charles Callahan, the secu-1
rity chief at Patrick Air Force
Witness Says It SU Base in Florida, and quoted him
nnOrtB
as saving that "another Govern-
It
men agency is involved in the
Sale of B-26 Bombers ?
case'
By DOUGLAS ROBINSON
Speclal Af The New York Times
Oct, r
--V"&
writer and former con
dj sultant to several Federal agen
v' Iles gave testimony today sug
gesting that the flying of sever
'. bombers to Portugal last yea
f`. was a secret operation of th
Central Intelligence Agency.
He thus contrad!cted the Gov
ernment's contention that the
/'flights were an Illegal private
, venture by a British pilot an
t a French nobleman on trial
R here in Federal Court,
The 'writer was Martin
Caidin, the author of. at least
32 books and numerous articles
on aviation, who said he was
a former adviser to several Fed-
eral intelligence units.
You just don't fly military
aircraft out of the United
States without some form of co-
h operation," he told a jury of,
10 men and two women. "At;
'least, you don't fly openly." ?
Mr. Caidin said he had been'
rl assured by the man responsible
for carrying out the transaction,,
ownerl
P, of a Tucson, Ariz., plane-leasing
?' service now said to be living;
t' on the Island of Jamaica, that
the flights had been worked
out in cooperation with they
C.I.A.
Operation Sparrow
He also testified that he had'
openly discussed the C.I.A. in
volvement with several intelli-'
gence officers of the United:
(.States Air Force. He said the,
, B-~G flights had been carried'
t+ out under the code name oft
Operation Sparrow,
ti After the participants had.
;'been arrested and he had filed
some 25,000 words q+ith the Airl
k:,,4'o'ce in. tiY~port,`:f??-theilot
of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and
Count Henri Marie Frangoise de
Mann de Montmarin, a patri-
cian-looking French airplane
broker.
Both are charged with con-
spiracy and with violating the
Federal Munitions Control Act,
which forbids the exporting of
military materiel without a li-
cense to all countries except
Canada.
A third defendant, Woodrow
W. Roderick, a Canadian ac-
cused of being the so-called mid-
dleman in the transaction, was
dismissed late last week for
lack of evidence.
The World War ir bombers
ostensibly. were to have been
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territories of Angola and.
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Late last night, under prod-
lug by a Hungarian delegate to
he United Nations, the United , 1.
tates denied that It- had had 11-i;, " ( t ' Mt t id
t ` ut r t s
ny part in the deal in violation
)f an earlier pledge not to sell
uch aircraft to Portugal. " it 4 j r , c<
Mr. Caidin testified that Mr:,
awke had once flown directly)
ver the White House in trying 01
t ~r I~4 t , t r iF, r ,
o land one of the bombers in_ .q +
ashington. Despite the fact' ' '? 'r 7 .' ( ,'~;t;'
hat this is strictly forbidden;i
e went on, no violation was. rr ri 1 ~? " +', " , t
ver filed against. him [Mr.. , , ., ( z , N +{
awke]." F iV l 11 n YJ f +t 1,
(,, uta f e ,..
He said he had found this, a ;' " (: t, .+1 t(+' t,+, ' +'iC l t ", o V FI )
incredible based on ny; , +l ' r f" Y +,, 1 a , ! +
xperience as a pilot and as a
riter on air safety.!' r lyi+ "r +,
The defense has contended ~7, h It + ~y yl t~ } ^ i
at the flights to Pdrtugal4 " 1 ere not secret lansand customs clearancegt
d been obtained for &.4 860
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