PROSECUTORS OBTAIN INDEFINITE DELAY IN TRIAL OF ACCUSED SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000606240025-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2010
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: July 7, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
7 July 1984
Prosecutors Cbtain,"
t'1rof Acre
ef ~ite Delay in
%: By Lena H. Sun._ Since Monday, the defense and
The trial of accused_s y:.R.icbar"'d.daily; in- lengthy closed-door ses-?
rCiarg itb originall y sc-heded tto. sions before Judge Williams to de-
`begm-'MondayI in Alexandria, was termine which classified material, if
postponed' indefinitely'' yesterday any, will be allowed into court. The
when,federal prosecutors said-they': hearing is required under the fed-
needed'inore time to examine the eral Classified Information Proce-
;classified information, that 'Smith's dures"Act
defense attorneys wish to use. It was not until late Thursday,
Much - of that.. information, however, that federal prosecutors
Smith's attorneys maintain, tends indicated that they needed addition-
to corroborate Smith's. claim that al time, the judge said Thursday:
' he was working for the Central In- "The government decided at the
telligence Agency when he provid- 12th hour that they need more
:ed the identities of six U.S. double time," A.-Brent Carruth, one of
-agents to a Soviet KGB officer in Smith's lawyers, told reporters yes-
Tokyo. terday. before resuming another
According to Smith 's lawyers, a closed-door session on the classified
:substantial portion of the classified material. "We've announced ready.
'material is contained in documents These documents are so strong
=of the defunct Honolulu investment th at, if we can get them. in, we will
:firm of Bishop, Baldwin,. Rewald, win."
,Dillingham and Wong. Under federal law, the judge
The documents have been sealed must rule on what information can: .by a federal court in Honolulu at the be disclosed. That ruling is not ex
.request of the CIA. The firm's for- pected until next week. The gov
:mer head, Ronald Rewald, has said ernment then has 10 days.to decide
that the investment company had, whether to appeal the ruling to. a
extensiveties to the CIA, The federal appeals court, which would
records recently were turned over have to resolve the. issue before the:
to U.S. District Judge Richard L.. trial can begin.
-Williams. The defense cannot appeal Wil-
Smith, a former Army counter- liams' decision. - - -
intelligence specialist, is accused of ? Although an appeal on what in-
;providing the identities of the U.S. formation could be admitted would.
agents in exchange for $11,000. If be handled by the 4th Circuit Court
.convicted of conspiring with the of Appeals on an expedited basis,.-
' KGB officer or_ of transmitting na- the delay could take up to three or
'tional -defense information, Smith four months, the judge said.
daces a maximum sentence of life Because of the possibility of a
.imprisonment. lengthy delay, he granted permis-.
'' Smith, 40, contends that he was. sion for Smith to travel outside Vir-
'working for two CIA contacts who ginia's Eastern District to Bellevue,.
gave him a 'Honolulu telephone Wash., where he had lived before
number as his contact upon his re- his arrest in April, or to any other
turn to the United States. The num- district where relatives are caring
ber was one of. those used at Bish for his four young children.
op, Baldwin. The judge has scheduled another
The CIA has 'acknowledged "a pretrial hearing next Thursday to
slight involvement" with the invest- determine whether federal prose-
ment firm, but has said that it has cutors can introduce the results of
' ..f C..,:41, ,- 1,:e t.. 01_ nl:.nronl, toctc that the 7P T h-rl
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