ARMS FACTORY RAID YIELDS 373 MACHINE GUNS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000401580001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 27, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000401580001-9
MAR 2- 7 1965
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Arms Factory
Raid Yields 373!
Machine Guns
. _ _ . ?
? ?coat. They fire' a mm:
t. at a repotted rate .of 35
?
RV WALTER AMES and ? kounds a second. ?
CHARLES E DAVIS JR anti Castro .. ' '?? '. !' ? friWhen the raiding,' party
,. . . -
? -.?? Tint's Staff Writers ? 4,-. .. ' . The search .;:lartint issued ,shiered the one-story., plant,
Investigators seized 37;l by'
Munkipal 'Judge: Fred they found four employes
. . . ,
.. i 1. Rabb of' . Citrus . Municipal: there. The : agents said
machine guns late Frit* d
, ' I. C. :6 u et. in West ,C.n v i ii a George Ingram was the man
a City of Industry arms, plant charged.i that: I lie...,comParty in charge and that he in,
"to prevent them from fall.:,. : had no slate .pernat for pps-?
Ing into the hands of private; sess1", 'qr sale ..o.f... machine
pinies in California.' . - .iguns. - . ?;
Armed with a search war-:ILyHn"c0hwa' ed,%.:leitit.c?..4'."AthIpt...impGliecsiiii:
rant, ?the raiding party, en-. lions were much mire seri-
tered the Erquiaga' ?Arms.
' ous.and that there had been
Co.,'- 15036 M: Proctor Ave,,:
;f reports the .guns wotild be
just. after 5 pin. ' t.sold illegally to U.S. ?Citlz,ens.
'They found the machine,,, "Speed was necessiryOn
giins stacked in racks,- milz-'? ' "sp ? '
zles, down. They also seized? 's ' y ,
office has definite., inf. 'plant is only two long city
about .100 000 rounds of aftt-!Plir
!munition 'and three?machine.1,Ination that some of theAsaltilocks from the City of In-
,
legal
Weapons
formed them ,Erquiaga 'was
out of the country. ;.
Workers at an adjacent
plant told reporters the ma.:
chine guns were frequently
tested in an area behind the
aims plant, test rounds being
fired into a barrel.
This news surprised Sher-
iff's Lt. E. D. Villines who
led deputies on the raid: The
were, ?
lgun silencers which had
?.for..rnivate armies' in Califor-
.. - ? 'A spokesman for the attor-
I ? Former Ca.stroite? ? .:.nev.? general identified such
? The ? raid . was ? made by:I-extremist organizations as
iabout 30 federal and state the Minutemen and the Ran-
:agents and deputy sheriff's, gers ss among intended reci-
'Atty. Gen. Thomas?C: Lynchl pients, Lynch has proposed a
;said. ? ,? ? ? . ..to? the state Legislature
t The plant reportedly ts,Lurging that -such cirganiza-
i
owhed by Juan Erquiaga: ti.ons.be outlawed., ?
;was tinderstood that he is " The machine - guns ? are
now on a trip to Guatemala!,,;..aliout 20. inches, long.. They
It also ?Was,? understood that t.have a Pistol grip Instead oX
Emiaga once' was .a inerfv,:.:a. stock; so. one 'could. easq
-,?-? ? ???? L" ? illoirer40.4.6.0t4arl ?A 4?1
ibeen built inside empty beer;
. inia.
tuns. ,
dustry. sheriff's 'office. '
Mach of the machine guns
bore the'. Marking *JURE"
and 'below this, "MR64" and
also the name "Erquiaga.".
Although no arrests were
made, Dep. Dist. Atty: Mau-
rice Oppenheim; who. -pre-
pared the search .warrant
and lccompanied the raiding
party, said evidence seized
will be Studied by the -district
attOrney'Sloffice'svith.a.Niew
to possible.:11toSetution.'.:,-;?';;,..
The ratdOi'Sfsti6xit hoir t%
the ,Ple stUdYlitir .ptt.
?
Der gastro's .c;ntsCealed beneath a Mani liaper*-and,!,, r?
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Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-06475R000401580001-9