OFFICIAL ROUTING SHEET RE FIVE MEN CLEARED OF PLOTTING TO IMPORT MARIJUANA.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
To: GREANEY, JOHN, OGC
Document date: 9/7/76
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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MIAMI, Sept. 4 (AP) A federal

jury has cleared five men of charges

of plotting to import tons of marijuana

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Cleared were arms dealer Mitchell

WerBell Ill of Atlanta; William Bell;

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a Raleigh, N.C., businessman; Gerald

Cunningham, a Deerfield Beach, Fla.,

arms dealer; John Nardi, a Cleveland

!, Teamsters union official, and Morton

Franklin, a Cleveland financier. Their

trial lasted two weeks.

Defense attorneys argued that their

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clipped this item. He said it is from

5 Sept 76 Washington Post. I double-

checked that issue but failed to locate it.

Perhaps I overlooked it.

Chris Hopkins

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