The World - News from Oct. 27, 1985
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Sudan’s former vice president, Omar Mohammed Tayyeb, went on trial on treason charges in Khartoum, accused of receiving $2 million from the CIA for his part in last year’s airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. The prosecution said Tayyeb allowed the U.S. Embassy to supervise the evacuation of the Ethiopian Jews and that transferring 8,000 people to Israel by way of Sudan constituted strategic support of the Jewish state.
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