AMERICAN'S SOVIET TRIAL SET TODAY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500360034-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: November 22, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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NOV 22 '
STAT
American's
Soviet Trial
Set Today
From News DIspatehes
MURMANSK, U.S.S.R., Nov.
21-k--An American book sales-
man Newcomb Mott goes on
trial Monday on charges of
crossing the Soviet border
illegally.
The official Tass news
agency claimed today he l
crossed from Norway to the !
little borfler town of Boris
G 1 e b irf northern Russia
despite warnings from Nor-
wegians.
This. summer Norwegians;
were premitted to cross the
border without visas f o rI
brief tourist visits. It wasi
previously bplicved, Mott, 27,
of Sheffield, llass., had joined
a group of Norwegians and
crossed the border without a
visa but in good faith.
Mott will be defended in
court by Soviet defense lawyer
Boris Zolotukhin. lie faces a
sentence of, up to three years
if convicted.
Mott's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Howard S. Mott, arrived
to attend the trial at the Mur-
mansk Regional Court. Offi-
cials refused to let them see
their son before the.proceed
ings, according to a Soviet
rule which forbids such pre-
trail meetings.
Two Western newsmen were
given permission to attend the
trial.
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