WITNESS SAYS HE AIDED IN MAYFLOWER 'BUGGING'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400460037-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 16, 1999
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: April 13, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHrNG ON STAR APR 13 1964
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A wi
ness who said he was
or
Intelligence Agency testified to-
'day in United States District
Court that two or three private
[detectives on trial operated a
listening device with him in
connection with the Mayflower
"bugging" case.
The defendants are Oliver 'W.
Angelone, John W. Leon, and
John J. Frank. They are ac-
cused of slipping into a private
attorney's _room,,:. planting, :a,
'transmitter,,....and..,.operafing;:a
listening . device in their owQ
.room.
Douglas ;,]'.,, Weaver, who said
he was an ? economist, testified
he was present in a room of the
Mayflower with one of the de-
t'tectives and former Police In-
spector Joseph W. Shimon when
the "photo-copying of'some pa-
pers" was being done a "couple
sof weeks' before the bugging
incidents
,
Sought,Pipeline Franchise
present with Mr. Shimon. snd~
Mr. Angelone when some photo-
The detectives are charged
of documents inanother..
with illegally setting up a tiny copies
room of the hotel were being ;
'transmitting device in March,
made two weeks. before the
19G2, in the Mayflower suite of
attorney Malcolm T. Dungan. leged bugging incident. He did
.
The lawyer, was in town repre- not elaborate.
the El Paso Natural i
Is Under Indictment
JGas Co., before the Federal
Power , Commission. The firm Mr. Shimon now Is under inrn
fwas seeking a multi-million dol- dictment on a charge of ion-;4
filar pipeline.franchise into spiring to obstruct justice? and?
California. . causing the operation of a
Mr. Weaver testified before "bug" in connection with the;
the jury after Judge Edward A. Mayflower case. But he is not a'.
Tamm signed an order compel- defendant in this trial, now in
"'?'axte on.3wttoming outofof? ",l 0,orrk
lg hi tet b
,inmo answer qusionsy
Assistant. United States Attor-
ney Harold J. Sullivan. Accord-
tingly, the witness now cannot
be charged with any crime
growing out , of , today's lesti-
:mony, with the exception 'of the
%charge of perjury. ,
Mr. Weaverdescribed his
connection with the detectives
jas ' a .''loose association" and
[saidheslgned .in:.at !the.: May-
By WILLIAM BASHAM March 1, 1962. The room was
(close to the suite occupied by'j
t
Mr. Dungan and the' witness
rented room over to'Mt. Frank`
and Mr. Angelone:'
Says He Saws3,in
. Later that -day.,he,?said, heii .
saw the two detectives and Mr;,
Shimon in the room. He said-
Mr. Shimon was holding a trans-0,
mitter- in his hands:
Mr. "Weaversaid lie was ' in,
the rented room bn and off. for:
five days:Ike:skid. the voices he,
heard coming -over the receiver appeared to be;discussing "ne-
gotiations before. an'administra
tive agency." ). He said he had received phone
calls from Mr. Shimon during
their five-day stay at the hotel.
and that their password for get-i
ting into their room was "Swee
ney. The economist, who said he
sometimes left the hotel byy the:; .
fire escape
talked of his beings
its second day.
stand later in the day, cond.
firmed that the transmitting d&1
vice had been found, under air
coffee table in his suite. - .
After the discovery, he said,i
he walked out of. the suite and
down the corridor tb . a point )
near the room the detectives al-t,11
legedly.rented. He said he could'
uesF in f,ia 1
h.." the voice -Of a
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