JURY IN BOMBER SMUGGLING TRIAL IS TOLD OF USES FOR BOMBSIGHT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300510060-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: September 24, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON PO51 .
AND TIMES HERALD
?..Ap~rffaei r Release 2000/0%2E7 :2CIIipP75-00
CPYRGHT
jU ry in Bomber Smuggling Trial
Is Told of Uses for Boanbsight
bombsight
plane?" Marger asked Jerome
Bachman, warehouse manager
for' the. Rochester firm .of
Morris Diamond Associates.
flying the B-26s.
F eral D" trict. Pourt today
Sept. 23-What
ca . you ' with a Norden
b bsight?
he que ion was raised in
"I asked what they were d -
ing with the B-26," Miller e j.
tified. "He said they were to -
"No," said Bachman. "Peo-ling it to Montreal to have t
le buy (converted into an executi
p them for the parts. , aircraft
They strip, them down and-1 Hawke, Marger's client, ,co -
take the parts out." The Nor- Itends the scheme was secret
.
t' came as defense lawyer den sight, one'of the best-kept
E win Ma Cr, who claims the secrets of World War II, is full
se eme wa secretly supported of all sorts of little gears and
gyroscopes.
b the Central Intelligence "Can -anyone walk in and
W r II a tack bombers. to
P rtugal
o the thi day of the' trial
of three en on charges of
co spiring to smuggle World
m n to a l ngthy' quit.
`Would ou . use a Norden
buy bombsights and machine'
guns?" Marger, a pilot ' him-
self, . asked. "Bombsights, yes;;;
1065, with John R. Hawke, 28
1of, Ft` `Lauderdale, Fla".
8~ .
{ fugal. Miller. relayed a casual:
Page Airways, Inc., Rochester
the firm that installed a long
range fuel tank in a B-26 that'
',passed through here en route'
to Canada and eventually Port,
mond J. Miller, an employe of.
-ally sent seven. '1
Another witness was Ray.'
mounts and ammunition boxes
for B-26s. Bombsights weren't,
mentioned although they are
cited in the indictment.
The Government contends
the three defendants conspired
to fly 20 of the twin-engine.
26 h b I t 1 ff
B sc eme ut a er et o
stopped at the Diamond com-
l pany to buy gunsights, gun
Previous ' testimony i n d i.'.
cated that Keat E. Griggers;.~
1'42, Jamestown, Calif., a met`
chanic who was indicted in the'
machine guns, no," Bachman
responded.;
backed by the CIA, which w s
meddling in a rebellion In
Portuguese colonies of An#go
and Mozambique.
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