JURY CHOSEN IN B26 CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300510080-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 80
• Publication Date: September 22, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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=IurY Chosen. in B26 Case
CPYRG RRIEL~YR United States, which In Interviews with the pres.
nor in the North Atlantic Treaty statement to officials, Hawke,
has lost, time he a in be Organization for the defense of 29-year-old former Royal Ai,
Wing its ooi"tto that a Europe, has insisted that those Force fighter pilot, who no,
alleged attempt o smu 1 arms udt'be used against rebels makes his living ferring plane.
seven B-26 bomber out of 1 in Angola and Mozambique and across the Atlantic, described iyi
country for `use` b"the Po f
guest in sin's was all part a United Nations that had ally bombers from, Tucson, Ariz.,
Central Inteelligen Age cy knowl ' of the effort to smug where they were re-condition,;:.
plot. gin attack bombers to the Forth- to the Portuguese Tancos Ai
Before a jury of en men d gUese? Force Base hear Lisbon betwec,
F
May and Mid-August of lass
two women had even b en 'Testimony ih the trial''of
selected yesterday to hear he awke apd two other defendants year.
case against three 'allege111 o- scheduled to begiq this after- Along the way, he has said, h
conspirators in a pla noon ar hear ngs on a. notion was immensely aided by tw
defense' lawyer was rmit- by Coon Ee de lontmarin, passwords - "monarch" anx
over objections fro the gon- an alledged go-between in the
meat-to ask pros dive j rs deal, to suppress certain evi sparrow" - which he said wei
what , they knew about he dente against bim, given to him by a man he bf
politics of the Po se i Hawke and De Montmaria are, Neves was a CIA agent.
can posgeslons of Angola d accused of conspiracy to vihlate
The U.S. Government, deep!
carties.,8 poulble ,penalty of alleged smuggling on its rely
Formal De al
$10,000 and five years in jal, tionship with Africa nation: ,
Each of the prose ctive ju rs and two counts of actually may go so far as place a CI;
solemnly shook his or her had moving bombers out of this official on the stand to den .7
as Edwin 14 larger, flambo nt country, with a possible penalty under oath. that the agency ha i
Miami beach attor y for J hn of $25 006 and two years in fail. any part in the operation.
Richard Hawke who as A third defendant Woodrow As one government officio i
contended that flew he Wilson Roderick, a Gfanadian to said earlier, there is cone: ,t
planes out of the c unary in lie whom the planes were allegedly that the defense, with its confer
Innocent belief tat he as transfer ed on paper, is charged tion that the whole operation.
working for the C A-ask If only under the conspiracy count. was run by the CIA, will atteml
they would be luctant, in Just before the trial began to turn the tables and in effe,
reaching a verdict to find at yesterday, the indictment put the government "quit
the actual policy of the T.S. against "another defendant, Eeat literally in the position of d+:
government was direct on- Griggeri, 42, a pilot-mechanic fendant."
tradiction to its annour. ed fro' m?'Ja mestown, Calif., was,
policy. unexpedly dismissed. He was,
imm dl ely served with a
subpoena to appear. as a prose
cutiO4 witness the cask but
his attorney insisted that no deal
had been made to assure his!
agreeni6t, to testify.
Describes Flight
A fifth man named in the
original indictment, 45-year-Old
Gregory Board of Jamaica, left
the country shortly beoere
Hawke and De Montmarin were
arrested and is not available for
trial.
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