SOVIET GUARD AIDS AMERICAN ON TRIAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500360033-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: November 23, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/04/19: CIA-RDP75-00149R000500360033-5
INtW YORK
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NOV 2 2 1965
STAT
Soviet Guard Aids American on Trial
Newcomb Mott, 27, of Sheffield, Mass., first American
put on trial in Soviet Russia for illegal entry, got. unex-
pected but vital support from one Soviet witness at Arctic
Murmansk. A nervous Russian border guard confirmed
Moo's story that he mare or less blundered into Russia
from Norway.
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/04/19: CIA-RDP75-00149R000500360033-5