REWALD HINTS OF CIA BIAS BY PROSECUTORS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100040004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2011
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 22, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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HONOLULU ADVERTISER (HI)
22 February 1985
Rewald hints
of CIA bias by prosecutors
By Walter Wright
.tdtertiser Staff %% rifer
Ronald Rewald moved to dis-
miss the charges against him
_yesterday on grounds two gov-
ernment prosecutors may have
secret links to the CIA that
may have caused them to con-
ceal the truth.
Rewald's attorney, Michael
Levine, said there is "strong in-
dication" that Assistant U.S.
Attorneys John Peyton and
Theodore Greenberg "had a
vested interest in protecting
the Central Intelligence Agen-
cy."
Rewald is charged-with 100
counts of fraud, perjury and tax
evasion in connection with the
operation of his defunct invest-
ment firm, Bishop, Baldwin,
Rewald, Dillingham & Wong.
He insists that the firm was
created and operated by the
CIA for intelligence gathering
and that he was working at
CIA direction.
i The CIA used the company at
least to provide commercial
cover - telephone numbers
and stationery - for some per-
sonnel. But Thomas Hayes,
cases creates the appearance of
impropriety and gives both men
"strong incentives to . . . en-
gage in actual impropriety."
. Levine said both attorneys
may have had access to docu-
ments and information another
prosecutor could not have seen
in the course of normal discov-
ery in a criminal case. Failing
dismissal of the case, Levine
asked that Peyton be disquali-
fied because of a conflict of
interest.
Peyton declined comment last
night, and Greenberg could not
be reached. But U.S. Attorney
Dan Bent said, "Peyton and
Greenberg work for me and
through me for the Justice De-
partment. They are both assist-
ant United States attorneys and
answerable only. to' the Justice
Department."
controller in bankruptcy for the
firm, says the CIA link involv-
ed only about $3,000 in reim-
bursements and does not e:;-
plain Rewald's use of nearly $5
million in investor funds for
himself, family and friends.
Levine argued that Peyton's
former position as chief of liti-
gation for the CIA and Green-
berg's involvement as prosecu-
tor in the Edwin Wilson and
Richard Craig Smith espionage
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