U.S. CUSTOMS AGENT ASKED ABOUT MISSING DEFENDANT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300510066-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 66
• Publication Date: October 1, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

ApproWdY `*_Telease 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP75-00149R00O Q, % 066-4
Courier-Lxpress, 1 Oct 66
U. S: Customs Agent Asked
About, Missing Defendant
The trial of three men alleged
to have conspired in the un-
lawful exportation of" seven B-,
Approved F
plane with Board. While, Hawke peg, Man., businessman.
and de Montmarin were arrested __,
Il:anding there in a C-46 cargo row W. Roderick, 47, a Winn
Pyne added. credit for Luber.
went to Jamaica with the knowl- seas Bank, Geneva, Switzerlan
edge of U. S. authorities," Mr. which initiated the letter
s?'' a ""`11DG a` He said they would be flown t
torney, on Board's whereabouts, T,nd +n +'. hock ?f hi
Responding to questions from guese -government, in ,trainin
cross-examination of U. S. Cus of his hardwa;e," Mr. Cros
r- ,AAPA 1anA ha tnlrl me tha
The missing defendant, Greg- months a?
orv R. Board. 45. of Tucson_'.
jury of 10 men and two women.' him once for 20 minutes, 1
third week in the case before :the defendant de Montmarin a
v r ~i cur,- w al it- a man ne iaentiriea as tour
sume in Federal Court Tuesday. - de Montmarin." Mr. -Cross sai
escaped.
Tor Use in Training Pilots
Frank.Tummonia, a licensing
officer in the State Department's
Office of Munitions Control, said
no export licenses to lawfully
ship B-26 aircraft to Portugal
were issued to any of the de-
fendants.
A New York City bank official
testified in Federal Court earlier
that he was told 20 B-26 bombers
in a 1965 export deal were des-
tined for use in training Portu-
guese pilots and cadets.
The testimony of Thomas W.
Cross, assistant vice president of
the Bank of America's Middle
East-Africa Division, came at
the trial of three. m$n'charged
with unlawfully exporting seven
bombers to Portugal.
The Bank of America, 'Mr.
Cross said, was the reimbursing
agent for a Tucson," Ariz., bank,
which administered a $694,000
letter of credit in the plane deal
from Luber, S. A., a Swiss cor-
,poratipn, to Aero Associates,Inc.
bf Tucson. The proposed desti-
ro of the s
ro aSere 1dAt tdi t,
Mr. Cross said. - i
exported a B-26 aircraft to Ca
real."
At first, Mr. Pyne said Boa
Later, Mr. Pyne added:
tart' purposes." - s.
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