REWALD CURBED IN BID TO BLAME CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605490042-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: September 25, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN (HI)
~ Rewald Curbed in:
Bid to Blame CIA
Judge Restricts Telex Evidence
of 'Arms Deaf
~~ ~~ awe
terda ahem to ip
Into eroe~ earn they
binlt that op Baldwin,
~w Dlllfnabam k '~ was
~aems at the ~e
tine ooeDpeAr.coilaaps~d.
But U& ~nd=e tearoZa !'?on~
docu~t: a~ilowed tntevidence
becatae they do not show that
the C1A codtrolled, directed or
au rvlsed ehe we of 8bhop,
Baldwin money.
Rewald claims that the ilA net
e~mpe~ay. w M~reepo~b tort
the ]os of mWb~a of doWrs of
la~eetora' money. He also c3atoas
~~~ ~ directed him to lava
-tsdct ~ttr~to ~~ at.
Rswald's attorney:. howwer
love yet to ppr~eesat evldeace oJf
CU e~oraytrol. 'i~rey >so to show
waes tAe rotd~die~m~aa to a d~~tdo
supply military arms to Taiwan.
The commfs: n from such a
axle some j10 millloa, then
wov~d have been available to
iavastora.
BUT TH3r 01`~LY evldena that
such a deal existed ate tale:es
betweeA Rewald and one of b1s
cosaultaots, Ned Avery Avaty, a
retired Air Force pilot, admits
that be was Path is 1081, meet~
fadg w~ ipth a Lebanese arms deal-
s 1u0~ eiat~etv~s h ~t type 4~
never went throuab and that he
thou~t Rewald only wanted to
gen4rate telex mlgaaea to bol-
ster lali aarrggument that he wse
heavily lA~ro~ved wiW the CIA.
dayh lne Ri xaiad ~ t~edaei j yfn d
trial but Fond would not !et
most of them into evldeace.
a ace these w~ nwo w eac~e thit
the den! went through.
F8I ipecfd a~ent Giena ltar?
tiA~ as acooun ii expert, said
there was an appearance that
nedotiations conccrnfaQ the
arms deal were ubder way. but
the deal sever wan rosnpNted.
saw considered the whole
prok~ ~ t~ uwther
part o= Reweld's "Pot~zi tc eme.,,
waldttit mapt~lele ~rei~e aka
aura of a Ieaitfaute businep to
dfaauiw a scheme to net more
lnvestorr to put ,money into his
coaspaAy.
"z+~r wNwLY~ is riot
anus deal ay otfatfo~ wu part
o! the (ap of tAe Pond
aCbf~ "~
Wayse w~one of Re-
wald's attornys, ued to Font
that the arms has as Invet~
me0t that '
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to ' ~ ttm~~b~e'o~ ~d~im
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'!tactb wid !t trtiere >?aQ
~etherd!'~~. ~~ by
- cotsceroed ~ fth tecoA mafniy
the tbw dt In ~Ottt o
yeabripk~ ~~ dnrl~the lbc
atlon....
25 September 1985
of the=- ~~ ~ t~1 at:
1N ~, ~~ ad?
vleed ,1EaM t~tt '~i~e Ind Aoade
contact ~ wltb an `"aanso~ yet
affable '4eDaaeee Snectilia" toa?
cerntna lase purchase of mthtaty
-quip eae. Tl;f- equipment in?
olud~4a~b~he~lmet/ and ,taser?
a~~ oafd Ki rngu~comttdent
wfnt a ere Mt ~'pto a `3+e~anac
6u~ ? ~r .
t vJae~ace~ o?cumsntio ~o~ing
~at Rewald. torated lltree. to>'pa
tfow wlt>d torefan atfoaafa
including as J1Nb and a PhWp
Qlnea baober. Theoe was A
{o tie those ~eorpontlons 1n witfi
the foot od Usvestoea' money oc
to show that the CIA was some
bow eaa~eoted.
The aoverament b e:~~eeeeted to
wrap up fts .cane by fF'rlday or
' early o?xt wsek. Theo 1t wll! be
,Rewafd's turn to tt-etodua tU bt
. -the evldeace tie Las to si4ow flat
be 1s dot aunty of fraud, pequry
and tax evufon.
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