PRINTS LINK MAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100040009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 9, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved- For Rolease? 2003/12/02: CIA-RDP75-00001 R0001
JACKSONVTT,T,E, FLA.
TII,.ES-wriluN
?'~ 9 1969
175,150
IN COUNTERFEITING
By OTIS PI:RIGNS Shea -- for Walker and Davis saw Capehart rough or try to
Staff Writer 1~ and Baker King, court-ap-'pass bills.
pointed lawyer for Capehart.? Asked by Clark if he were
A Secret Service agent tes- Sever
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ays ensued while offered anything to testify for
tiled Monday he found on bo- U.S. District Judge Charles the government, Taylor said
gus $20 bills the fingerprints .R Scott ruled on technical
of one of three defendants on questions. no, adding that by testifying,
trial in a counterfeiting case Clark indicated the govern-. "I think I've done myself
here' ment may close its case to- more harm than anything I've
Agent Robert L. Ball, fin- day. done in my life." He ex
gerprint technician from Se- Ball said the prints he plained he faced danger in
cret Service headquarters in found were on bills the Secret' prison for testifying for the' Washington, 'told a federal Service had confiscated from government.
court jury that he found Taylor's Jacksonville hotel Taylor said none of the
thumb prints of Raymond Os- room last Jan. 8. Ile said he money - $' 3'II00 in counterfeit.
borne Capehart on two of 174'
also found other prints he was notes he said he got from
bills confiscated by other unable to identify because he Davis - was supposed to
agents in the local case. had no basis of comparison, have been passed. Instead, he
The local Secret Service of. testified, he was supposed to
HOWEVER, Ball said, he; fice had submitted the finger- take it to his home state of. found no prints of the other, prints of Walker, Davis and Maryland to find a buyer.
two defendants, Frank E.' Capehart for comparison. Taylor said he passed one bill
Walker, 67, and Robert Davis,; , and that several others were
32, of Hilliard. O'1' It B It GOVERNMENT passed after he, Capehart,
? Also at the trial, which en documentary evidence inciud- Cartncr and Carmean went on;
tern its fifth day today, key ed bills allegedly passed at, r
government witness James J. p' a drinking spree.
~Taylor testified he formerly three bars here; drinking. He said d lie led the Secret
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mr of. Service to Davis after being,
worked with the Central Intel-i cups whisky and said to three have half-been pints
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th that lie acquired o
ord after leaving the investi witness said the purchasers money back East was'
as W' I
were in a truck similar to one er's condition for backing a
gative service. in which Capchart and Ste-
hrowJh the testimon deep-sea copper cable salvage
Taylor, now h i es im f When Ralph Carmean later' operation, which Taylor said
of
the f ayl ate of were halted. ? was worth $25 million.
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bur federal w Pathat the in Lewis- Carmean, who said he: , ? Taylor said he was an un
me?t has linked Walker vern- wasn't then 21, had told of 'derwater demolition specialist
driving the truck while Cape- for the CIA, when the agency.
an alleged counterfeiting conx1 hart bought liquor with $20: was headed by Allen Dulles.
spiracy. Taylor also has givel bills. The two later . were After leaving it, he said, he
eyewitness testimony against stopped in the early hours of had two convictions in Arizo
Davis. Jan. 9 and were held in a po-: :na involving "false orcten
Taylor was on the stand lice car while the Secret Ser- '? ses" and had had other ar-
when court recessed for the. vice arrived. A witness said rests... !. l..
weekend last Friday and con-, Capehart dropped objects
tinned under cross-examina- from a window while in the
Lion much of the day on Mon- back seat.
day. Secret Service Agent Joseph
H. Villeneuve and Patrolman
TAYLOR TOOK the stand W. V. Sykes said the objects
after initially refusing 011-proved to be crumpled coun-
grounds he had been threat- terfeit notes. Capchart later
ened in prison. He was sent to was arrested and charged.
Lewisburg after pleading Carmean was named a cocon-
guilty to taking part in the spirator but not a defendant
counterfeiting operation for in the indictment.
which the other three men
now are on trial. TAYLOIt ALSO implicated
Monday's proceedings also Carmean and another govern-
included introduction of docu- ment witness, Dave Cartner.
mentary evidence by 'Asst, Taylor said Carmean provid?
U.S. Atty. Allan Clark. This ed dirt to rough up the bills
action was marked by objcc-and that Carmean and Cart-
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