DEFENDANT IN ILLICIT EXPORT OF BOMBERS TO PORTUGAL SAYS C.I.A. BACKED SALE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300510072-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 72
• Publication Date: September 22, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW YO )R K TrMFS
Approved For Release 2000/($ 72 C RDP7
Defendant in Illicit E' j
to ~'c r~t
By DQ'It7GLAS ROI INSOti '
Speelal to The New'?ork'Iylil #S '
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African territories.
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A.ero Associates, Inc., of Tueahe trial
n. Ariz. He is now living o it NQ a
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jury that the flights, far from
the island of Jamaica. Firzon of Buffa.1, aN r; dic3 n
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being clandestine, were carried
Mr.Marger contended in hisloiltc an opening s atemen(_
out in the open.
statement that the Government l'or the Govern enl llI ,
"We have flight plans filed
allowed Mr. Board to leave thel~t:rtes Attorney l in 'I' (leer,
by Mr. Hawke as well as fuel
country. Ile also charged that .,:lid that the pros) cation win H
? hills and custom declarations,"
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oj~cndaiti
Federal authorities had done all thn,., _
he asserted.
The pilot evert ac-
nothing to get him back for......, guilty of viol Ling Feduial
to Icy for }. pilot a
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led of tlleg ying w
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C tradiction of its own polic
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pil~t, told a urn in Federal
Di trict. Court -that tlje Central
s oks will appear he told a
jil y of 10 men an two women
his opening statement. He
ex la}ned that ,9 oks" is a
c loquialism in some cycles for
UT tiignts, which involved the
tr nsporting of seven B-26
b, 'bets to Portugal from May
to 'August of la, year, were
c 'Tied out with the full knowl-
e e and cooperation of the in-
Yeoii
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`-' The attorney also riser t(d f a1.e 1"ist s c,ir the Unit rt
causing an investigation bSF the; hat ;F'c la rat alCfhbri es_ Yv
or:1tS,,rtl?s told United Venous dE'i
Federal Aviation Agency I
Mr, Hawke. is amoii&tl. ree :{ware of the seven flights and II g ti that the i li, 1wkt ha k b
defendants on trial here, efiarged {lid nothing to stop them. He, ,F M1rraed out w}thrn the laic
with conspiracy azid yioldtion'said the bombers had 'been in-` 1. P it the Uov, rl cent.
.r1trl i..l
of the Munitions ,..
Control Act,;pgcteti during refileling :tops ilci,.i,i. no a ie?rats, ittl .1 1 which forbids the export or im- by both customs agents ~a~lth;
port of armament war' ii a. r ha de that the he secret had
members of the Feder .Bureau:
teriel without a license from m ~ ln~en delivered on he secret in-
the State De artment. of Investigation.
p - 1 l ructions of the l cited Stat,
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in violation of its ,ledge to the
US Wltth
in blast suits who spoke .o;Trnited Nations ttat no such
It w
..nesrs as learnec,,today tha te him and helped him on his se
defense hoped to subpoena*.sev-,;yet way to Europe,. ttr aircraft would be old to Poriu-
eral high-ranking present anuMar er.: sa'ida*uf "Mr. Hawke's .11 because of t e -p, ,Llbihtg
former officials of the CI.A,,,fligaht.. .nt they might be used ti
as well as one or two prominentl The attorney for Mr. Mont- fri,,a.
political figures. aiarin, Edward Brodsky of hfew -
The other defendants are.york, Lola me Jury that his
Count Henri Marie Francojs d''e~iielierit knew Nothing of licensing
Mario de Montmarin, arFrcnCturegulatiihs.and had "every reel.-
airplane broker, and VS oo e yt to believe that all the neces
Wilson Roderick, a former rosi-'Cary papers had Been obtained:
dent of Winnipeg, Canada,_saidlby Mr. Board.
p aring at that time to cross The alleged leader of the lper Mr. Tfontmarin, who spear
t borders of Angola and Mo- ation has been identified as virtually no English, had to
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