DEFENSE RESTS IN B-26 TRIAL AS CIA DENIES INVOLVEMENT

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000500180010-0
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December 15, 2016
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April 2, 2004
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October 12, 1966
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AND TIMES HI:::AW 0 C T 1 z 6 Approved For Release 2004/04~~IA-RDP . 'll~we!iJa--,Je .l. .~~UUU t !"4 - 1 :.1L `' .1.xLL 1~~ 4lr is ~:~ `:L i-~) By Joseph Higgins Special to The Washlnaton Post BUFFALO, Oct. 11-Law- yers for two men accused of s..uggling 13.26 bombers to Portugal rested their cases this afternoon in the fourth week of a Federal District Court trial of the case. The judge's charge to the jury-is bet for Thursday. Just before the two defense lawyers rested their cases, U.S. Attorney John T. Curtin eli- cited testimony from the top lawyer of the Central Intel- li;ence Agency that the CIA had no part in ferrying the bombers. Edwin Marger of Miami Beach, Fla., one of the defense counsel, has maintained the CIA secretly approved of the export because the Portuguese were going to use the bombers against Communist-led rebels in Portuguese Africa. "Did your investigation re- veal that the CIA in no way helped the flight of these air- craft from the U.S.?" Curtin asked. "That is correct," said CIA General Counsel Lawrence R. 1-leuston. Eouston first took the stand Ise t Friday, bringing with him .he CIA's file of four memos on the bomber case. One of the memos showed that the CIA received notice of the bomber exports a week, be- fore the first bomber crossed the border near here in June 1963, . CIA Passed On Data Houston testified the CIA had no jurisdiction in the case and sent the information on to arencics which it thought would be interested. Today Curtin told the court that Houston had brought about 20 other CIA documents with him, all dealing with de- velopments in the case after the defendants were arrested in September of 1065. On trial are Henri M. V. de- Mann dcMontmarin,? 58, .,la.t~ .: ?i1aI Paris businessman accused of ordering 20 World War II type attack bombers for delivery to Portugal, and John it Hawke, 28, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., pilot 'accused of flying. the craft overseas. They are is ,.. __.... charged with conspiring to violate the Munitions Control Act which :Hakes it illegal to export certain weapons of war without special State Depart. ment permission. Judge. John O. Henderson examined the latest CJA pa- .pers in his chambers for 90 minutes before refusing to turn them over to Marger on the grounds they were "ir- yarn of involvement in tl case is pure theory," For Hawkc's defense, Mar- ger caused 11 witnesses to be subpoenaed at Government expense, . Edward Brodsky, of I\Tew York, attorney for.. witness, a Boeing Airplane .Co. official who testified to pre- vious dealings with deMont marin. ? Brodsky has main,' tained that de?Iontinarin ex pected a missing defendant'- in the case,, Gregory R. ;Board,' to obtain export licenses for FAA Witness Among rebuttal witnesses called by Curtin was John B. Newell, a Federal Aviation ell' testified he investigated the White House in June 19615r . Marger has contended that the flight through the nrn.: However, Newell cestificd;.., ]ation after Hawke explained to. him that he had engine: trquble corning into the aim Approved' For Release 2004/04/08 : CIA-RDP75-00149I00050.0180010-0 port. "We found that Hawke took on 53 gallons of oil after landing, an excessive amount," Newell said. "So we closed our file because the pilot had an STAT