CUBAN EXILES ACQUITTED IN GUN SMUGGLING PLOT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100440013-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: June 5, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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AND TIMES HERALD
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a. Federal judge.
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ORLANDO, a., June 4 . larcos Rodriguez . Ramos, ','
(iJP,I~-Cuban . ! exile leader Jose Diaz and Guerulio Guit-
~(~' l'ando osS and three as
:SOCia{es wan acquittal today errez. They had been arrest-
on gun smuggling charges but ed in June, 1965 after ' cu"s-
received a stern lecture from toms agents seized 18 10.E
After the verdicts of inno-
cent were delivered, U.S. Dis-
trict Judge George C. Young
?called Bosch and the others to
the bench and warned them
their acquittal did not mean
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freedom to violate U.S. laws. Tr-a17- lntclli;ence. whgeilc~y.;.plot
The judge's statement appar to --bomV
('ntly was prompted by an in- Havana ,nd:; that 1,he bombs
t.orview Bosch gave newsmen were pi ovide(1 by aF i14, k agent
r iday in which he said, he named Bill Johnson
was planning more ' raids 'e"` pi osec~itf~.r?? presented
.against Cuba. no rebuttal of this and did not is
The others freed were , present Johnson as a witness.
pound aerial bombs at a house;
in Zellwood, Fla., along with
a 1 life raft , and maps of
Havana.
Bosch took the stanc;j;i1.,hi5?.
defcise ri~avl~ai~d ; said. the.
of a Cen.
`itlunTC ns were pai-
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