CIA MUZZLING REBELLION IN ANGOLA?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200170006-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 5, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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5 October 1966
Lt was S lawyer who
stated wh, : ? the case started
yesterday that he was working
on the aircraft' deal on be?nal;
of the CTI,.
Certain U.S. Government or-
ganisations, he said, waned
to keep secret the fact that
they meant to help the - ortu
guess Government to suppress
the rebellion in Angola and Mo-
zambique:
There was silence from ne
I?CIA but ? lawyer Edwin Man-'r
asked the ,jury for an acquittal
on the grounds that the U.S.
Government- was following two
politics-one for public consunt?
ption and. the other secret.
On trial with ex-pilot Hawke
is F: enchman Henri de Mont.
marin.
They were arrested in Miarnt-
a year ago by a cnts of the
Treasury Department, who ae
cording to ,Mr. Marger, knew
nothing. of the CIA's interest.
in the deal.
Several of the bombers had
already lent the country via
Butfalo (New York) and the
two men were let, out on bad..
Agency ((..::) is backing -
Portu-gal's suppression or rebellion
in Angola and Mozambique, it
as alleged in cour r. here on
Iwuesday, reporis AF?.
The case concerns the export
of the seven American B-26
bombers to :?ortugal and was
brought by the Department o
Sustice on tllc ? rounds that
export of armaments is forbid-
don -by
one of the t.ccuscd is 28-year-
old
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