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SBA Officia Cleared in Store Project By the | : A J Thom: ‘Miami re- i” f i the Smail Business Administration, has been cleared by his superiors of any impropriety in selecting .a iongtime friend and business as- sociate to develop a shopping center whose rents are. 100 per- cent overnment-guaranteed for e developer is C,G, (Bebe)! bozo, the Key B . t President_.Nix6r. His dealings with the SBA took place two years before Nixon's election. Butler sought out Rebozo to develop the $900,000 shopping center which the SBA conceived as a means of assisting experi- enced ‘Cuban businessmen who fled that Communist country. The government has guaranteed about $2.4 million in rents for the 26 busineSee3-fée-40 years. Butler was_an initial investor and owns lots in two areas where Rebozo has principal in- terests. He said he had learned of the property through Rebozo. An Assoicated Press story in February reported these mat- ters. An SBA spokesman said yesterday that Butler had asked for an investigation. - ~ The spgkesman said that How- acting admunis- ‘ wrote Butler a (y , private letter in late February Dd: and said be had found no impr priety in Butler’s handling of shopping center fumeacton i . declined to comment . Obi bery 59-0- A- ee Tele. Room Holmes _____ Calhiahan Conrad Feit . Gale io - Rosen (AAC >. sullivan Tavel Trotter Gandy The Washington Post Timea Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Weobington Aad The Sunday Star (Washington? Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York? New York Post The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore? The Daily World The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer _——______--_- People’s World Examiner (Washington) —__- NOT CORDED Fe 176 MAR 14 1969 -—— ad an 5 SMAR 19 4969 —