SPY TRIAL CLASH TURNS ON MOTIVES OF EMIGR'E

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000201350003-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 19, 2012
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 12, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE NEW YORK TIMES
ON PAGE
12 May 1986
Spy. Trial Clash Turns on
n
Motives of Emigre ~
>M" r The am YN& Sion privately to Federal District
LOS ANGBLlt, May 11-The Jtdge David V. Kenyon because of her
fears for her family in Ras.
MR" trial of Richard W. Mlller reached
ale.
a Peak last week when the prnaectmt~ atatoMrs. O
and defense clashed over the t to t ttiita~v testified
wa no that her
of a Russian btrti who motives mneo to the Judy was not true acrd
Mr. Miller was testified that ended her testimony
of
nocent. and Mr. Miller were help the that she
Mr. Miller, a the in
oral Bumeu of Investigation the Fed- infiltrate Soviet intelligence and had
oral B with mitigation ever passed no secret information.
onage, is accused of
conspiring with the bmigrb Svotlana No Direct Evidseoo
lOor~'. and her husband, Niko. The Government has presented no di.
Y, to Pass classified documents to the rect evidence that Mr. Miller, a former
K.G.B., the Soviet intelligenc:Ion agent of a counts
fora promised =,000 in cash goj , Passed classified documen.The Goov:
Mr. Miller's first triaz last year ernment has relied on what it called
ended when at'Ju~rad that was heavily for ~ Miller's fession, made during itself deadlocited conviction da
At times in the two and a half months agents days of after his arrest Oct. 2, 1964. Al.
Of the Second
the trial spectators have re- though he said then that he had Passed
marked that
a soap proceedings were like _
affair between M .M about Mrs.
Ogorndnikov and about Mr. Miller's
foibles as an overweight and eccentric
F.B.I. agent. Adding to that was testi-
m~Y by Mrs. Ogorodnikov that an-
other bureau agent, John Hunt, now re-
tired, was also her lover and had taken
her to have an abortion.
But by the end of Mrs. Ogorodnikov's in which she recanted an
earlier testimony,
the trial was linked
to the realities of United States.Soviet
relations, as the prosecution and de.
fense debated what the future might
hold for Mrs. Ogorodnikov as a result of
her testimony favorable to Mr. Miller.
The debate was confined to the court-
room: a court order bars lawyers and
other parties in the trial from making
public statements about the case.
Exchange With Soviet Union
Russell Hayman, an assistant. United
States attorney prosecuting the case,
suggested in his cross-exaraitnation
that Mrs. Ogorodnikov denied that she
and Mr. Miller had worked for the
K.G.B. in the hope that she m ht re-
turn to her homeland in a future spy
swap. Mr. Miller's lawyers, Stanley
Greenberg and Joel Levine, said she
was not tailoring her testimony.
Mrs. Ogorodnikov had interrupted
her own trial last June to plead guilty to
espionage in a plea bargain, But near
the end of her testimony last week in
the Miller trial, in one of several dis.
avowals of that guilty Plea, she said the
Soviet intelligence knew she had really o help the F.B.I. and
therneforree she tcould
Soviet Union not return to the
.
"I would be shot," she said. "What
do you think the Russians are, fools?
They know the truth."
A Prosecution disclosure during Mrs.
Ogorodnikov's testimony appears to
have ended in a setback for the de-
fense.
In cross-examining her, the prosecu_ .
tion disclosed that last year, while
seeking her. plea-barga~ aginreemetnt
Mrs. Ogorodnikov ha c said a state.,
meet to the Judge that Mr. Miller had
Passed a classified document.
The Prosecution 'disclosed that she
had been Permitted to make the admis.
classified documents he later dis.
avowed that, saying he had made the
statement under the duress of F.B.I. in.
terrogation.
While Mr. Miller has freely admitted affair
with kw~he has asserted thatfhhe was trying
to use bar as a double agent to infiltrate
the K.G.B.
Mr. Miller's lawyers have tried to
show the Jury that Mr. Miller was at.
tempting only to continue a plan that
had
Mr. H of earlier tbeen he tri d and scuttled by
Ogo+odmdltov into a doubof turning
le a Mrs.
gent.
Mr. Hunt, In his testimony
at Mr.
Miller's trial, denied trying to make
her a double agent or being her lover.
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