SECRET CIA DATA OFFERED IN FEDERAL COURT CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300510030-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: October 8, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Secret CIA Data Offered
In Federal Court Case,
Secret C e n t r a l Intelligence The secret documents, on which
Agency (CIA) documents, consid- Houston's testimony was based,
ered to be "clangorous" to CIA were not brought into the court
agents abroad, were introduced room until after a 40-minute con-
Friday into the Federal Court ference in the chambers of Judge
trial of two men on charges of John 0. Henderson.
conspiring to smuggle World War
II type attack bombers to Portu- During the closed door ses-
gal. sion, the judge examined the
The documents were brought original CIA papers and ma-
here by Lawrence R. Houston of chine reproductions containing
Washington, D.C., chief lawyer of certain deletions and, in the
the CIA, under a subpoena ob- presence of attorneys for both
tained by attorney Edwin Marger sides, approved the deletions.
one of the defendants.
On trial on charges of con-
spiring to violate the Munitions
Control Act are bearded John.
R. Hawke, 28, a former RAF
pilot now living in Ft. Lauder-
dale, Fla., and Count Henri M.
F. deMarin deMontmarin, 58, a
Paris businessman.
Marger is trying to prove that
the CIA knew of the B26 bomber
exports and secretly backed the
operation because the Portuguese
planned to use the bombers
against Communist-led rebels in
Portuguese Africa.
On the witness stand, Houston
testified the CIA documents indi-
cated the agency on May 25, 1965,
had information that the Portu-
guese government had purchased
22 B26 bombers from a private
company.
Week Before B26 Left
This was almost a week before
the first B26 allegedly left the
,Ijnited;States and four:. days after
the contract for., the planes was
'-signed, testimony, has indicated.
taken to the courtroom and the
originals were spirited away to
a safe place.
All sides agreed the deletions
had to do with who supplied the
information in the reports and
how it was obtained. The sub-
stance of the reports relating to
the B26 operation was intact, 1
lawyers said.
Edward Brodsky, attorney for,
deMontmarin, immediately ob-
jected to the documents on the
grounds they contain information
prejudicial to his client.
Objection Overruled
Judge Henderson overruled
him, later instructing the jury
that the information'in the papers.
was not vouched for and could
not be used against deMontmarin.
In questioning Houston, Marger
sought to show that the four
memos did not represent the
CIA's complete file on the bomb-
er case.
Judge Henderson directed the
Jury, of 10 men and two-women
to t$turn 'Tuesday :,.
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