JURY CONSIDERING PORTUGAL FLIGHTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500180008-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 2, 2004
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 14, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN

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Approved For Release 2004/04/08 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000500180008'3
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i1 -) ; enso Again Asserts C.I.A.
5anctionod Sale of B-26's
(? By DOUGLAS tOBINSON
Specl&l to The New York Tlroea
s-UT, F ALO, Oct. 13-The trial
involving a British pilot and
a French nobleman accused of
illegally export' ng seven World
War IT bomb_cs to Portugal
last year was put in the hands
of The jury late this afternoon.
:he- panel-10 men and two
women-will decide.whether the
defendants "knowingly- and
willfully" violated a Federal law
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planes p part Both defendants were indicted and various accountants and near Lisbon, were said to have.'
of a transaction that was at year, along with Gregory businessmen. The "fairy god- been for eventual'uso against
'eventually supposed to entail Board, a Tucson, Ariz., busi- father" was the Government- an alleged Communist Chinese-,
the sale of 20 bombers. ~ ? . nessman, now said to )be living "a ghost, a spook, a little man trained uprising in Portugal'8
The . defendants,'- John : R, on the -island ? of,. Jamaica. who was not seen who always African territories 01 Mozam
.yavrke, a . former, Aoyaln,Air Charges against two other men, tapped. Mr. Hawke's,shulders bique, and,, Angola.-'
Force pilot, and Count Henri were dismissed during the trial with a bit of fortune" he said.)
Marie Francois do Marin de here for lack of evidence. Throughout the trial Mr.~
Montmadn, a French airplane Iii summing up today; the Marger has `attacked agents ofi
broker, face a total sentence of lawyer representing Mr. Hawke various Government agencies
nine years in prison or fines returned to his theme that the who allowed Mr. Hawke to,,
of $60,000 or both, if they are entire operation had been car- leave .the country in the bomb-,
convicted of one count of con- ried out with the authorization ers without checking to see i!,
spiracy and two counts of actu- or tacit approval of the Central
Intelligence Agency under the he had an export license,
ally transporting the planes. code name of Operation Spar- Edward Brodsky of New:
The two were charged with row. York, the lawyer representing
violating the Munitions Control Earlier., this week, Lawrence Count de Montmarin, said his:
Act, which forbids the export- R. Houstn, general counsel of client had never in all his for-
ing of war material to any the C.I,A., denied that his agen-
foreign mer dealings with the sale of
country except Canada ey had been involved in any
without a license. Involved are way. aircraft from the United States?
the sale of seven World War II Mr. Hawke's lawyer, Edwin to Europe faced the necessity'
surplus B-26 Invader bombers.. Marger of Miami Beach, re- of obtaining export licenses.
Possible Sentences ferred to the case as "the 10 In his summation, United
little Indians and the fairy god- States Attorney John T. Curtin
Under. the law, Mr. Hawke father." restated his contention that
and Count de Montmarin could both men knew they were
receive five and fines of ' The 'Fairy Godfather'
years breaking the law. He dismissed
$10,000 each on the conspiracy The Indians, he told the jury, the argument that the C.I.A..
count, and two years and fines I would be all of the people in. was involved as "ridiculous."
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