DELOREAN TEAM TO DEFEND MILLER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404280018-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: October 7, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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7 October 1984
DeLorean Team to Defend Miller
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6 (UPI)
-The. legal team that won John
Z. DeLorean's acquittal on drug
charges, convincing jurors that
he was entrapped by a govern-
ment "sting" operation, plans to
defend Richard W. Miller, the
former FBI agent accused with
.two Soviet emigrants of espio-
nage, a lawyer said today.
"We have met, and there ap-
pears to be a mutuality of inter-
est," said Howard Weitzman, the
chief defense lawyer in the De-
Lorean case. "We think the guy is
innocent, and we think thereore
some striking parallels betwhen
this case and the one we just fin-
ished trying."
Lawyers See Parallel
In Accused Spy's Case
DeLorean, 59, who was vid-
eotaped discussing a $24 million
cocaine deal with undercover FBI
agents, was acquitted Aug. 16
after a 17-week trial. Weitzman
and his partner, Donald Re,
adopted a strategy of turning the
tables and putting the govern-
ment and its tactics on trial.
In an interview in today's Los
Angeles Herald Examiner, Re
said Miller, who was arrested
last Tuesday with Svetlana Ogo-
rodnikova and her husband, Ni-
colay Ogorodnikov, may have
been a "patsy" caught up in a plot
orchestrated by the government.
Miller is the first FBI agent
arrested for espionage. He has
been charged with trying to sell.
secret FBI documents to the two
reputed Soviet agents in return
for the promise of $65,000.
Miller, who was fired shortly
before his arrest Tuesday, has
indicated that he will plead not
guilty to the espionage charge,
which carries a possible life pris-
on sentence. He and the two So-
viets are being held without
bond.
Weitzman said today that "get-
ting things down in writing, some
last-minute details" are, all that
need to be worked out.
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