ACCUSED SPY IS PERMITTED BOND-RAISING ASSISTANCE

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• Publication Date: April 21, 1984
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WASHINGTON POST
21 April 1984
Accused Spy Is P?rinitted
Bond-Raising Assistance
By Lena H. Sun
Washington Post Stan Writer
Accused spy Richard Craig Smith
can use letters of credit and real es-
tate from family and friends as col-
lateral for his $500,000 bond, a fed-
eral judge in Alexandria ruled yes-
terday. Defense attorneys for Smith
said they hope to have him released
within the next two weeks. -
Smith, ' a former Army counterin-
telligence specialist, is charged with
disclosing the identities of six U.S.
double agents to a Soviet KGB of-
ficer for $11,000. If convicted, he
could be sentenced to life in, prison.
Smith has been held at the Fairfax
County jail since he surrendered to
the FBI at Dulles International Air-
port on April 4. His trial has been
set for July 9.
William B. Cummings, one of
Smith's two attorneys, said he hoped
to implement the bond conditions
"within the next seven working
days." If Smith is released, the judge
agreed to allow him to live with fam-
ily friends in McLean and ordered
him to make daily telephone reports
to federal marshals.
The attorneys told 'U.S. District
Court Judge Albert V. Bryan Jr.
that their efforts to build Smith's
defense have been stymied because
Smith, 40, of Bellevue, Wash., has
been reluctant to talk in a jail cell
equipped with television monitors
for fear of incurring additional fed-
eral charges.
"He is paranoid," A. Brent Car-
ruth, Smith's other attorney, told
the judge. "Craig is charged with giv-
ing up [classified) government infor.
mation and any dissemination is a
felony," Carruth told reporters later.
"He is still very protective of the
United States and unwilling to share
that information."
Smith, a staff sergeant, worked for
the Army Intelligence and Security
Command from July 1973 until Jan-
uary 1980, the last seven of his 13
years in the Army. He was in charge
of one double-agent operation,"Roy-
al Miter" from October 1976 to July
1978, 'according to the indictment
against him.
- Federal prosecutors have charged
Smith with disclosing the identity of
"Royal Miter" and five other double-
agent operations to Victor L Okunev,
a Soviet KGB officer, in three meet-
ings occurring between November'
1982 and February 1983 at the So-
viet commercial compound in Tokyo.
Prosecutors. also have claimed
that Smith knew of as many as 24
similar double-agent operations. The
double .agents are U.S. military per-
sonnel who pretend to be disloyal to
the United States and to cooperate
with a hostile intelligence service,
such as the KGB.
A source close to Smith said that
while the "Royal Miter" operation,
which federal authorities have ac-
knowledged as being the most im-
portant of the six double-agent op-
erations, was indeed 'a heavy oper-
ation," it had stopped functioning six
years before Smith allegedly told the
Russians about it.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph
Aronica declined to comment yester-
day on the sensitivity of the double-
agent operations..:
Family and friends raised
$739,000 for Smith's bond: $300,000
in eight letters of credit from six
local banks in Utah, California,
Washington and New Mexico, and
$439,000 in the net value of real es-
tate from eight homeowners in Col-
orado, Utah, Washington, Arizona
and California, according to court
papers. Two of the homeowners are
Lane Smith, one of Smith's five
brothers, and Macksine - Rux, an
aunt.
Smith, whose father is a bishop in
the Mormon church, at one time had
.a position' of leadership in the
church himself, according to his fam-
ily and friends. He is a native of
Utah. His parents, Hyrum and Dor-
othy, live in Bellevue, the Seattle
suburb where Smith had been living
with his wife and four-children be-
fore his arrest. -
Bryan ordered that the letters of
credit be irrevocable and include a
provision stating that the amount be
paid to the federal court in Alexan-
dria if Smith fails to appear in court
for his trial. He also required defense
attorneys to identify to federal pros-
ecutors the individuals behind the
letters of credit. -
"I don't want some corner store
operation issuing a $100,000'letter of
credit," he said.
Bryan also accepted only 50 per-
cent of the equity of the real estate
and ordered that appraisals be ob-
tained and approved by the U.S. At-
torney's Office in the districts where
the properties are located. He also
required a note of personal obliga-
tion from the property owners to pay
up to 50 percent of the equity.
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