ESPIONAGE TRIAL
EVIDENCE BY PRIEST (Rec. 9.15 a.m.) BELGRADE, Dec. 2. An Orthodox priest, Alexei Krizhko, chief defendant in the espionage trial at Sarajevo, admitted to-day that he had given economic and political information about Yugoslavia in letters sent to the Russian Embassy.
He reported that shops were bare of essentials, 4 and that the five-year plan was not succeeding. The prosecutor said the similarity between defendant’s statements about Yugoslavia and those of Moscow radio was apparent. ! The only woman among the accused, the 46-year-old Ksenia Komad, pleaded guilty to charges of collaboration with the Gestapo during the war. She said she thought that Krizhko was a Gestapo agent. The hearing was adjourned.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 45, 3 December 1949, Page 5
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