PILOT CLAIMS C.I.A. BACKED ILLEGAL EXPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300510028-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: October 10, 1966
• Content Type: TRANS

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STATION WNUS
DATE October 10, 1966 - 2:00 PM CITY Chicago
CPYRGHT
r--PPYRGOT CLAIMS C.I.A. BACKED ILLEGAL EXPORT
C Pa" lirmT
HARRY KING: "Whether the Central Intelligence Agency wa3
in o ed in the sale of obsolete bombers to Portugal may come
out is week in a federal trial at Buffalo, New York. W-Newsman
Ji est has a special report on that story:"
ST: "The Government contends that seven of the World War
Tw vintage bombers were flown to Portugal without export li3ense
or permission of our State Department. Over the past three weeks
of trial the court has been told that the bombers were to be used
in putting down a communist-inspired takeover of Portugese coloni
in A rica.
"One of the bombers, reportedly, flew through the restricted
ar a over the White House on its flight overseas.
"The government claims that three men conspired to export th
plane illegally to Portugal between May and September of 1965.
Tw f the alleged conspirator, former Royal Air Force pilot Jo
Hawke(?), now of Fort Lauderdale, Florida; and 58-year-old French
Co (?) and businessman, Henri de Monterand(?) are on trial.
Th ird man under indictment, 45-year-old Gregory Vord(?) has
fl d the United States and is believed to be somewhere in the
We t Indies.
"According to government testimony, Hawke flew the planes,
an lord was associated with one of two firms based in Tuscon,
Ar z a, responsible for supplying the aircraft. The government
cl i s twenty bombers were to be purchased, but that only seven
actually reached Portugal. Hawke claims that the C.I.A. backed
the tire venture, but that the United States now is unwilling
to b revealed as siding with Portugal in the suppression of
rebellious colonists in Angola and Mozambique. The C.I.A. has
in owed any involvement."
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