JURY CONSIDERING PORTUGAL FLIGHTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200170009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 14, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Dofonso Again Asserts C.I.A.
Sanctioned Sale of B-26's
4. ? 3y DOUGLAS ItOBINSON
Special to The New YOek Times
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BUFF ALO, Oct. 13-Flu 41
involving a rLEisT pilot an
h French nobleman accused of
llegally exporting seven World
War II bombers to Portugal
last year was put in the hdnds
of the jury late this afternoon.
The- panel-10 men and two
women-will decide whether the
defendants "knowingly, and
willfully" violated a Federal law
flying or conspiring to send
?v,e' planes to Europe as part
,of a transaction that was
'eventually supposed to entail
the sale. of 20 bombers.
The , defendants,'.' John i R.
orce pilot, and Count Henri were dismissed during the trial with a bit of fortune," he said.
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arie Francois de Marin do,hcle for lack of evidence. roug ou
ontmarin, a French airplane Iii sumining up today; ' the Marger has attacked agents of',
roker, face a total sentence of
Inc years in prison or fines
f $G0,000 or both, if they are
onvicted of one count of con-
piracy and two counts of actu-
Ily transporting the planes.
The two wef?e charged with
lolating the Munitions Control
foreign country except Canada
without a license. Involved are
the sale of seven World War II
surplus B-26Invader bombers.
Possible Sentences
Under. the law, Mr. Hawke
and.Count de Montmarin could
receive five years and fines of
$10,000 each on the conspiracy
count, and two years and fines
of $25,000 each on both of the
substantive counts.
Both defendants were indicted
last year, along with Gregory
R. Board, a< Tucson, Ariz., busi-
nessman, now said to lbe living
on..,-the'. --island .,.of.- Jamaica,
Charges gas two other men
lawyer representing Mr. Hawke
returned to his theme that the
entire operation had been car-
ried out with the authorization
or tacit approval of the Central
Intelligence Agency under the
code name of Operation Spar-
row.
Earlier, this week, Lawrence
It. Houston, general counsel of
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C
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l
h
various Government agencies
who allowed Mr. Hawke to;
leave.the country In the bbmb??,
ers without checking to see if,
he, had an export license.
Edward Brodsky of NcW
York, the lawyer representing
Count de Montmarin, said his;
client had never in all his for..:,
ie.
. ,
., en
ed t
at his agen-
cy mer dealings with the sale of
had been :involved in any
way. from the United States,
.
Mr. Hawke's lawyer, Edwin to Europe faced the necessity'
Marger of Miami Beach, re- of obtaining export licenses.
ferred to the case as "the 10 In his summation, United
little Indians and the fairy god- States Attorney John T. Curtin
father." restated his contention that
The Godfather' both men knew they were
'Fairy breaking the law. He dismissed
The Indians, he told the jury, the argument that the C.I.A..
would be all of the people in- was involved as "ridiculous."
volved in the 'operation, includ- The bombers, which were'
ing the defendants, Mr. Board flown to Tancos Air Force Base
and various accountants and near Lisbon, were said to have'
businessmen. The "fairy god- been for eventual ' use against!
father" was the Government- an alleged Communist Chinese;
"a ghost, a spook, a little man trained uprising in Portugal's
who ? was not seen who always African, territories .dt. Mozam,1
tapped Mr:, Hawke'sshqulders gigue'a>id,;Angola.;
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