ARMS FOR SALAZAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300510091-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 91
• Publication Date: May 17, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN

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Approved For Release 2000/08/27 : CIA-RDP75-00149
MOSCOW, U.S.S.R
iT MAY 1966
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U.S.A.
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Arms for Salazar
Early this month U.S. customs of-
ficials discovered a large number of
arms about to be smuggled out of
the country. by a flyer named John
I-Iawke. Accused of violating Fed-
eral bans on exporting munitions,
Hawke tried to wiggle his way out
by claiming that he was acting not
with selfish aims but in the interest
of the U.S. government.
The customs officials did not get
what Hawke Was driving at and
haled him to 'court. There he an-
nounced that he had been employed
by the Central Intelligence Agency
to deliver American, arms to the
Portuguese forces in Angola and
Mozambique. llawke also testifled
that he had flown seven II-20 bonib-
ers to Portugal. These secret arms