COURT TOLD U.S. KNEW OF B-26S

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300510055-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: September 28, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
Approv
Coma Told
U.S. Knew
Of B-26s
as May, 196 , that some
businessmen fere setting up
an agreemen
20 twin-engine attack bomb-
ers were to be sent to Eu-
rope, a Tucson, (Ariz.) bank-
er testified yesterday in
Federal District Court.
Daniel M. Coors of the
Southern Arizona Bank and
Trust, Co., called by the
United States in the trial
of three men on charges of
conspiring to smuggle B-26
bombers to Portgual, said
that Gordon Hamilton, own-
er ' of the Tucson firm that
took the airplanes out of
mothballs and prepared
them for flight, advised U.S.
Customs of the deal shortly
after its inception.
Coors's remarks came out
under cross-examination by
Edwin Marger, the lawyer
who represents John R.
Hawke, 28,, one of the de-
fendants., Hawke contends
that the Central Intelligence
Agency knew. of the bomber
plan and: secretly approved
it despite. a promise by the
U.S. Government that no
weapons -would be sent to
Portugal ".for: use against
rebel's in the Portuguese
African colonies.
After a brief hearing dur-
ing which the jury was sent
'out of the courtroom, judge
John O. Henderson reserve
decision; on a motion b
Marger that the Government
pay the cost of bringing 1
defense witnesses, including
top CIO officials, to Buffalo
Marger claims that. Hawke
a former Royal Air Force
pilot now living in For
Launderdale, Fla., is indi
gent.
Rail Fireman Disput
Union attorney Joseph L
Rauh . charged yesterda
dxfazQiri~s~s!?k~l
himself up as a "labor re
Associated Press
JUDGE HOLTZOFF
. . . bias charged
lations czar" in the dispute
over eliminating railroad
firemen's jobs.
In a brief to the U.S..
Court of Appeals, which will
hear the latest round in the
7-year-old dispute Oct. 6,
Rauh said Holtzoff erred in
ruling last March that the
railroads could keep on elim-
inating firemen's jobs de-
spite the expiration of the
law on which the attrition
plan was based.
Rauh accused Holtzoff of
being biased against the
union, the AFL-CIO Brother-
hood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen, and said his
ruling "defies rational an-
alysis."
Some 18,000 firemen's jobs
had been eliminated under a
compulsory arbitration law
passed in 1963. Holtzoff
ruled that, even though the
law had expired, to require
hiring of new firemen would
defeat its purpose.
Addenda
? Capt. Walter M. Schirra
Jr. will command the second
three-man Apollo spacecraft,
the Houston Post reported.
? The Radio Television
News Directors Association
took "strong exception" to
any legal controls on infor
mation provided news me
dia. "Professional and re
sponsible conduct is essen
tially the concern of journal
ists, not the court," the
group said.
? Frank Rotella Jr., for
mer head of the New Jersey
chapter of the Ku Klu
Klan, says he has formed
new group, the New Jersey
White Crusaders, to fight
against "black power arid
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