MORHOUSE GUILTY ON 2-BRIBE COUNTS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2012
• Sequence Number: 76
• Publication Date: May 21, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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.'HE NF,W YORK TIMES' SAtURDAY, MAY 21, 1966.
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and Morhouse were parts of
the tame deal by which "a cor-
rupt public official and his po-
iftical boss" teamed up to en-
rich themselves and one an-
other Illegally.
The principal witnesses
against Morhouse, were three
convicted or admitted accom-
plices in the bribery of Epstein.
Ralph Berger, a "fixer" from
Chicago, was convicted In 1984
of conspiracy t trial which
brought out ta he had de-
livered $25, in cash, pro-
ceeds of two Playboy Club
checks, to opt in his-room
in New York ospital. Berger,
who has not begun serving his
one-year term, admitted in the
Morhouse trial that he hoped
he would get "Consideration"
from the court for his testi-
mony.
The other two dgr witnesses
for the prosecution, admitted
co irators and bribers, were
Playboy executives . Arnold T.
Morton and .Robert Preuss, ?ho
had been given immunity from
prosecution for their testimony.
Justice Abrah4m J. Gellinoff
gave the case to the jury early
Thursday afternoon. With the
ten men and two women jurors
still deadlocked at midnight,
the judge had them taken in
a hired bus to a hotel with in-
structions to return to ' the
Criminal Courts Building at 1
A.M. yesterday and resume
liberations.
Jury Back Early
The jurors returned to the
urthouse an hour early, ap-
pairently determined to end the
deadlock. At 12:30 P.M., they
sent word to the judge that they
had reached a verdict.
Mr. Gelb and Morhouse took
their accustomed seats at the
defense table and Assistant Dis-
trict Attorney David A. Gold-
stein sat at the prosecution
table. In a front row of specta-
tor seats were Mrs. Margo MQr-
house, his dark-haired wife; his
son, a daughter, Mrs. Christo-
pher Breiseth, and her husband,
professor of modern European!
history at Williams, grand jury, where he refused to
In court standing erect the waive immunity and answer, COMPUTERS DENT
,, tall crew-cut defendant spoke questions about the liquor
in? a law ce ave j is scandal.
pedigree-,' to a court fficer. A spokesman for the Gover-
Fifty-two years old, occupationinor said yesterday Mr. Rocke-
lawyer, address Black Point feller would not comment on
Road, Ticonderoga. Later, he Iorhouse's conviction.
201 produced complications in his told newsmen he had no com-l ii
;ur- luhgs," the second bulletin said. ment,
vith An autopsy was ordered butt Morhouse will continue on 5tatae of Liberty
ban hospital spokesman indicated re
loc- suits would not be made public.
able ' After Mr. De Rudder's death,
Dr. Debakey said that several
minor modifications would be
made on the heart pump before
It would he used a second times
rained their telescopes on the
un and took photographs of
the -celestial event.
There will be a total eclipse
of the sun Nov. 12. Then the
moon will cast Its shadow in
~1 path across the Pacific
Ocean, South America, the
Atlantic, and finally across
South Africa. '
Astronomers throughout Eu-
ope studied the eclipse with
olar telescopes and spectom-
eters in a search for more
information about the fiery
process by which the sun
generates heat and light.
"We succeeded in taking
photographs of the'spectrum
of that part of the solar disc
which remained open," an as-
tronomer at Moscow's Stern-
berg Institute said, "Usually
the scattered radiation com-
ing from the disc as a whole
ihterferes,with that."
parole in his own custody until
sentence is imposed.
The delay in agreeing on a
verdict was because one of the
women jurors had held out for
acquittal on all counts. Short-
WASHINGTON,Ma .
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said today, that the
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such computers to Frar
been turned down this y
but that the basic design wouldIten to reason," as another In the harbor's haze yester- earlier.
remain the same. It has been'juror put It. day morning the red, blue and "The United States
(assumed modifications were Jurors' Reasoning (white of the Cuban flag added ment has for some time
Tod-made before the McCans opera- to authorize the sale
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with the acquittal of conspiracy The 5x9-foot flag hung briefly atomic weapons s resear
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ass of the left ventricle, the' bribe before sending the Play- q P- x
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was heart's main pumping chamber. but that Morhouse was silty spokesman on the island, "but weapon: pro;;ran.
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ALAMOGORE, N.M., May
20 IAP)-A test version of
the Surveyor vehicle designed
for an unmanned soft landing
on the' moon made a smooth
900-foot descent`in a success-
Jul final, test today prior to
the scheduled May 80 flight
to the moon.
The craft was dropped from
a balloon over nearby Hollo-
man Air Force Base.
Its three liquid-fuel engines,
operating on information from
two radar systems aboard the
Gets Cuban Flag
But Not for Long
landing.
A spokesman descri
counterpart of Russia's
9, is to be launched o
first lunar mission. ato
Atlas-Centaur rocket
eape Kennedy. Luna 9 1
on the moon Feb. 3.
National Aeronautics
Space Administration off
say they hope Surveyo
send back information
DIRKSEN OPPOW AD
TO WAND CJA.UNf
WASHINGTON, Hay t0
(UPI)-The Senate Repulialaa
enlargement of the eesstV.
watchdog committee on the
Central Intelligence Agency.
Reed Army Medical Center re-
cpvering from a broken hip,'
said: ~r
"If ybu are going. to have s
Congressional panel or a eem-
mittee that is going to tank the,
Central 'Intelligence Am~yy
over the coals and quis his
about. their activities, tMK
methods, their targets, and so
forth, then in my judgm t It
is no longer a secret.!'
The controversy centers on a."'
Plan to add three members qf.
an end to this resohitis'tp::
threaten C.I.A. with a
Hanel on the ground that i
gotten too important, has de st~