CIA TIE TO CASE HERE STIRS INTEREST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300510082-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 82
• Publication Date: September 18, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2000/08/27 : CIA-RDP75-00149R0005WMeb82-6
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Agency will be: focusing
In various parts of the nation
and even the world, people who
off Stirs Interest
cast,
tiof of
here, the government Tuesday
will, start its trial of four men
on Charges of engaging in a con-
spiracy to extnrt warplanes to
Porto wit}~o obtaining a gov
ernVelt iicenr#.
ling B-2
The CIA, of t qourse4 hasp
were wdeed to aid Portug l in
a fight talk rebellious Africans.;
in Angola and that the CIA w
behind thif;elieme.
U.S. At ti.v' Jahn T. Curtin ibo
will prti ettut-e- 00- Gas , cos at
the claim aiid es tt s a device
that' m" ay inbtme a "standard
defense Aire
crirltinpl apses.
traliaabave t[Tevoted much space
to tho cgse,
The four` defendants claim they
were charged as the result of an
inl:eragIMCI Dlixup; that the fed-
eral agent wbo arrested them
were up %rare that the a orts
nation have
merest in the
tion, pnblica-
elV senarated
John R. Hawke, 28, of l.' Lauder-
dale, Fla.; Neat Gi?1grs, 41, of
Jamestown, Calif., W. ~i7oodrow
W. Roderick, 29bo T sdi1,` Arta.
A fifth man, Gr ory It.
.Board, 45, fora Tpeson,
Is out of the colin .y and cannot
be extradited.
Curtin, who will .be ided ,dur-
ing the trial by Asst. V.S. Atty.
Richard J. Lehner, expects the
trial to last about to weeks:
The indictment aJeg is that in
the spring and $u1mej? of, 1965
seven B26 bombers of a planned
20 were exporlkt3._ t gp$ crerp
brought- in We. telr " eW ` York
because some 00 t` are
alleged to have' c 40;t ie Ca-
nadian border here" !4'tl r Avay
French Aristocrjt
De Montmaiin, Fr . c,unt,
is alleged to hc$ iis-
stoned in Par14I to I Nis
and to have c With
Board. Roderl 1e y con-
tracted to buy. lirough
a Tucson firm,
former RAF s is al-
leged to have..
C, to 4t'th
(-riggers e .:
Conviction oilt a act
or conspiring to violate it couXd
bring prison sentences `x'an u3g
from'two to five yg~at a a el ices
ranging from $10,040 to {5 111Q.
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Approved For Release 2000/08/27 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000300510082-6