OUSTER OF REWALD INDICTMENT SOUGHT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605490151-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2011
• Sequence Number: 151
• Publication Date: February 22, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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HONOLULU STAR BULLETIN (HI)
22 February 1985
Lawyer Says Prosecution Has CIA Ties
Ouster of Rewald Indictment
Sought
By Charles Memminger
Star-Bulletin Writer
Ronald Rewald's attorneys
want his indictment dismissed
because two government attor-
neys have or have had connec-
tions with the CIA.
If the indictment is not
thrown out, federal Public De-
fender Michael Levine at least
wants Prosecutor John Peyton
disqualified from the case be-
cause of his CIA ties.
"There is strong indication
that at least two of the prosecu-
tors in charge of presenting the
Rewald case to the grand jury
had a vested interest in protect-
ing the Central Intelligence Ag-
ency," Levine said in court docu-
ments.
Levine is referring to Peyton, who used to be chief counsel for CIA in Langley, Va., and Theodore Greenberg, whom Le- vine says "also has strong CIA connections."Rewald is charged in a 100-
count indictment with defraud- investors out of millions of dollars through his defunct company, Bishop, Baldwin, Re- wald, Dillingham & Wong.Rewald claims that the compa-ny ny was set up and run by the CIA to conduct secret CIA activi- ties. His attorneys think the CIA "has a vested interest in having Rewald convicted, in minimizing its own role in the entire affairand in suppressing or distorting information about CIA involve-
ment."
"TES IS because it wishes to
avoid possible criminal prosecu
Lion of CIA officials, , wide rang
ing congressional
and executive
branch investigations
into CIA
activities, and costly and embar-
rasing civil judgments against
the agency and its operatives by
Bishop, , Baldwin investors," the
says.
motion
Peyton
arrived in Honolulu
just two days after Rewald at-
tempted to kill himself. The sui-
attempt
led to the rapid col-
lapse of his company.
But Peyton
said he did not
come
as a CIA attorney but as
an assistant
U.S. attorney _ with
background in drug investiga-
lions
.. Peyton came to Hawaii
from
an assistant U.S. attorney- in
charge of narcotics trafficking
for two years.
Levine alleges that Peyton still
works for the CIA and points to
a letter written to U.S. Judge
Martin Pence from Bishop, Bald-
win bankruptcy attorney Simon
Klevansky.
In that letter, Klevansky says
that Peyton claims to be an
attorney for the CIA so he
should be able to review certain
sealed court documents.
Levine alleges that Greenberg'
is connected to the CIA because
he has been counsel-of-record
for some of the government's fil-
ings pertaining to CIA-related
documents. He also was involved
as a government attorney in the
espionage case ` of CIA- agent
Edwin Wilson.
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