JURY CONSIDERING PORTUGAL FLIGHTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300510016-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: October 14, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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broker, face a total sentence ofilawyer representing Mr. Hawke various Governor nt agen cn~
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nine years in prison or fijxes returned to his tjheme, that the who, allowed lv r Hawke to
of $0,O00 or both, if they are entire operation had been car- leave the country in the
bomb- vied out with the authorization 1ers without checking to see
Sil] AC 'L er -A, or tacit approval of the Central
piracy and two counts of aetu- Intelligence Agency under the he had an export license.
.SsnGiaion~ alb () _ ~ s aly trafisgortingthe planes. 1co .;xla e o _Operation
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,r , t,. which forbidss the expert- R. Houston, general counsel of client had never i all his foa,-
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a license. Involved are way aircraft from the Jnited States
of seven World War II Mr. Hawke's lawyer, Edwin to Europe faced -.he necessit,-
13-26 Invader bombers. Manger of Miami Beach, re- of obtaining axPoz t licenses.
ferred to the case as "the 10 In his summation, United'
ossibie Sentences States Attorney J)hn T. Curtini
little Indians and the fairy god-
Mlle iatv._Mz Hawke ather." restated his contention that
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