JURY CHOSEN IN B26 CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300270004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 21, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGHT
j has lost no time here in begin-
' alleged attempt to smuggle
'politics of the Portuguese Afri
can possesions of Angola an
government was in direct co
tradiction tb Its announce
,policy. , :_
CPYRGHT
FOIAb3b
The United States, which sup-
lies arms to Portugal as a part-
er in the North Atlantic Treaty
rganization for the defense of
urope, has insisted that those
rms not be used against rebels
Angola and Mozambique and
as formally denied before the
nited Nations that it had any
owledge of the effort to smug-
Ie attack bombers to the Portu-
ese.
Testimony in the trial of
awke and two other defendants
scheduled to begin this after-
oon after hearings on a motion
y Count Henri de Montmarin,
an alledged go-between in the
eal, to suppress certain evi-
ence against him.
Hawke and De Montmarin are'
ccused of conspiracy to violate
he Munitions Control Act, which
arries a possible penalty of
$10,000 and five years in jail,
nd two counts of actually
oving bombers out of this
ountry, with a possible penalty
f $25,000 and two years in jail.
A third defendant, Woodrow
Wilson Roderick, a Canadian to
whom the planes were allegedly
transferred on paper, is charged
only under the conspiracy count.
Just before the trial began
esterday, the indictment
against another defendant, Heat
riggers, 42, a pilot-mechanic
from Jamestown, Calif., was,
expectedly dismissed. He was;
Describes Flight -11
original indictment, 45-year-old,
Gregory Board of Jamaica, left,
arrested and is not available for'
statement to officials, Hawke, a
29-year-old former Royal Air
Force fighter pilot, who now
makes his living (erring planes
across the Atlantic, described in
detail how he flew the seven
bombers from ..Tucson, Ariz.,
where they were re-conditioned,
to the Portuguese Tancos Air
May and Mid-August of last
year.
Along the way, he has said, he
was Immensely aided by two
passwords - "monarch" and
given, to him by a man he
lieves was a CIA agent.
The U.S. government, deeply
tionship with Africa nations
official on the stand to den
under oath' that the agency ha
any part in the operation.
As one government officia
to turn the tables and In effe
but the government "qui
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