U.S. SET TO OPEN ITS CASE IN BOMBER-EXPORT TRIAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300510078-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 78
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2000/08/27 : CIA-RDP75-00149R00
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The govan7.rnccnt. ;'sits Sat to c er. ;is case in red--ral
Cii::'rL iata t;.d.>y a; ainsthree rhea accused of eIlgadin
a con ;pi'racy :'C grip -r sever, -26 bombers and re-
:a', C 11.',i :P.ie::IS to '.nee ner;rly %t11 hours of`sciec-r
ior. Tuesday a -u r,, of 10 .. n Judge Henderson said the trial
two wor :en W._.e sworn be-i is ?e'::pcct.d to last from two,to
re Judge Jan C. ende_son.lfou: weeks. Two potential jur-
One man was seiectau as '.,,n ai-! ors, a man and a woman, were
ornate. chahar.;ed by defense attorneys
The judge set aside his rao.r,- and excused during the first
fag for a hearing on pre-tri'''I :- hour o selection.
.en~e ;notions, without the --jury's! Tha three remaining defend-
7resence. ants are John R. Hawke, 2S, a
Prior to Tuesday's ?;ury seiec-former RAF pilot; Woodrow Will-
tion, the government dropped son Roderick, 47, an aircraft'
charges against a fourth de-;businessman from Winnipeg,
Pendant, Kent Griggers, 42, a Man., and Henri Marie Francois
;,'a,nestown, Calif., aircraft me-~de Mann de Montmarin, 53, a
chanic. French count and industrialist
U.- S. Atty. John T. Curtin de-1, fr?' Paris.
clined to give reasons for Y.le!ClA Center of Questioning
dismissal. A .'fifth Plan named in the in-'
However, Deputy U. S. Mar-'dictalent has not been found.
sisal Joseph J. i-iofiarth ;mine-IHe is Gregory R. Board, 45, a
diately served Mr. Griggers aIn ative Australian last reported
subpoena to appear as a wit-; n Jarnacia.
Hess for the government later fir.' A hint of future defense t,-,c-
the trial? tics may. have been provided
Two-toy"our-,reek Trial 1when Hawke's attorney, Edwin
Mr. - Griggers' 2,uffala ct-iMar?ger of Miami, asked the
to ney, Joseph M. Ralabate, sa.iu;prospective jurors if their ver-
he assumed "the fe0era3 at-jdict would be affected by proof
toirey's office .has felt the hrcofls'howing CIA involvement and
would not be legally sufficient a po,sible conflict with official
to in any way involve r,lylU. S. government foreign policy
c lent." ~towa-d foe Portuguese colonies
What Mr. Griggers will c:o of Mozambique and Angola.
when called to the witness stand Previously-published reports
is not now known. I-Iowevet, Mr.!have cited CIA sponsorship of
Ra labate said he will advise Mr.1the venture and indicated chat
riggers of his constitutional the exported planes were des-
right, to invoke the Fifth A tend- tired to aid Portugal against re-
ment privilege against self-in- bell~ious African colonies. The
crimina Lion. . government has denied this.u