SUMMATIONS ARE PRESENTED IN SPY TRIAL OF FORMER F.B.I. AGENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000201350010-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 19, 2012
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 16, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPEARED NEW YORK TIMES W100001
ON PAPV _!Xjj 16 October 1985
Summations Are Presented in Spy Trial
of Former F.B.I. Agent
data led account of uwbWqm of Miller had sexual relations with Mrs.
American intelligence oPsratiaas? in a bureau car the same
JL1D317it CU1lR1lINGS Mr. Miller, who had been as F 9yrodailco~'
? "S" a no w. YCA 11 ' agent for 90 years, was dismissed hours Hayman said the "K.G. B.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15 - A Govern- before his arrest Oct. 2,1964. He faces a I Mr. Mr. Mer" A 5,1084, when Min.
pitched ask . 5, to provide be.
MAN today portrayed Rich- possible life sentence if he is convicted.
asd ?~i form~eragent of the As Mr. Miller's wife, Dania, sat in reOgorodnikov him au documents.
Federal Bureau of Investigation, as the the rear of the courtroom, Mr. Hayman ..He named his price, >i60,000 in gold;
ms~a~~rrwii who "turnedlio~vaenr PAY described for the jury the emu s that constituted the conspiracy,- Mr.
====do,, to the Soviet union. in t~ dal Hayman told the jury. "The defense
He said that in 1964 Mr. Miller em- says he had his fingers crossed under
The prosecutor'; Russell Hayman, an bodied the classic signs of vulnerability the table. But the evidence suggests
assistant United States attorney, made to Soviet recruitment. Mr. Hayman that Mr. Miller needed money, he was
tho.statement in his closing argtnmam said Mr. Miller was in arrears in his obsessed with money, and that's why
in the trial of Mr. Miller, the first mortgage payments, had been sus- stated his terms.'
F.B.I. agent ever accused of esplo' l pied for two weeks without pay be. Mr Hayman said W. MWsr crossed
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nags.
Mt. Miller, who has pleaded not
deal-
guilty to the charges, has said won a his effort
ings with Soviet agents -e
to infiltrate the K.G:B., the Soviet intel-
ligence agen his acgy~-which he felt would
Mr. Miller, 48 years old, is charged
with conspiracy to commit espionage
and with having given classified docu-
ments to the Soviet Union in 1964 in col-
laboration with his lover, Svetlana
Ogorodnikov, a Russian 6migr6 who
has pleaded guilty to being a Soviet
agent. The trial in Federal DistrictI
Court began Aug. 8.
Defeese Begin Summation
Joel Levine, one of Mr. Miller's law-
yers, said at the start of his summation
late today, "We have received not the
presumption of innocence but the pre-
sumption of guilt" from the F.B.I.
Mr. Hayman said the "playbook,"
entitled "Reporting Guidance: Foreign
Intelligence Information," was the
most critical of the documents Mr.
Miller is said to have given to Mrs.
Ogorodnikov. Mr. Miller is also
charged with soliciting bribes in return
for his cooperation.
The F.B.I. has said the intelligence
guide could provide the K.G.B. with a
cause he was overweight and had been point of no return is late August
put on trial probation by thMr. e bureau. prosecutor said 1the 984 when he accompanied Mrs. Ogo-
en by the Mormon e enhad rodnikov to San Francisco and gave
Chen excommuniated iodated and the her his F.B.I. credentials and the intel-
hurch, was problems. lly The Millers have de. He said Mrs.
mar probllem 00rodnikov ~ the documents
eight tal t children. over to the K.G.B.
Mr. Miller was suspended from the
bureau in late April 1984, after weeks
when his weight fluctuated between 223
pounds and nearly 250 pounds.
Meeting With Russian
Two and a half weeks after Mr.
Miller returned to duty, Mr. Hayman
said, he was approached by Mrs. Ogo-
rodnikov when he "was still feeling the
pressure" of his humiliation.
From her first telephone call to Mr.
Miller at the F.B.I. office in Los An-
geles in May 1984, Mr. Hayman said,
Mrs. Ogorodnikov, who is 34 years old,
moved quickly, using sex and money to
gain control over him.
Mr. Miller was compromised from
the first day, Mr. Hayman told the
jury, when be defied a superior's in-'
struction not to an Mrs. Ogorodnikov
again because she was known to have
contacts at the Soviet consulate in San
Francisco. Mr. Hayman. said Mr.,
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