3 IN BOMBER SALE WANT CIA CALLED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100250016-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 16, 1999
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: September 28, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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judge was to rule today on a
defense motion to subpoena
ranking CIA officials in the
#rial of three men accused of
trying to export B26 bombers
to Portugese African colonies.
Judge John 0. Henderson
Tuesday ordered atorneys on
both sides to submit their posi-
tions in writing. .
Attorney.Edwin Marger, rep-
resenting defendant John R.
Hawke, sought to subpoena 11
witnesses, including CIA Di-
rector Richard Helm or one of
his subordinates, at govern-
ment expense.
Marger said Hawke is indi= ,
gent.
Hawke has claimed the proj-
ect was approved by the CIA
and the State Department.
Hawke, 28, Henri de Mont-
marin,. 58, and Woodrow W.
Roderick, 47, are charged with
four counts of conspiring to
;ferry the planes through the
Rochester-Monroe County Air-
port in the summer of 1965 to
Canada and to Portugal for
eventual use in the Portuguese
colonies of Mozambique and
Angola.
"We understand national se-
curity may be' involved here
and we do not wish 'to jeonar-
dize national security," Marg.
er told the judge.
He argued that the appear-
ance of a CIA representative
1 and of Richard Bissell, a for
mer CIA deputy director, "i
the crux of our case."
He said B26 aircraft were
fused by the CIA in Cuba
Guatemala, Honduras an
Niagaragua and he maintains
"'It is the CIA policy to help i
the e x p o r t of B26 bomber
without export licenses."
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U.S. Atty. John T. Curtin ob-
jected to the motion seeking
the issuance of the subnoenas.
During Tuesday's testimony,
Dallas M. Coors, an assistant
;vice president of the Southern
Bank & Trust Co. of Tucson,
Ariz., detailed ? the arrange-
ments mane through his bank
for establishing a 5694.550.50
,letter of credit from Luber,
S. A., of Geneva Switzerland,
to Aero Associates, of Tucson.
Gregory R. Board, 45, of Tuc-
son, a princinal in Aero Asso- :
dates, was also indicted in the!
case but 'is reported to have
fled the country.
Coors said between Anril 23
and Aug. 9. 1965 his bank paid
a total of .996 01.0 to Aero As-
sociates for, the delivery of'
seven B26s and spare parts.