SPY CHARGE Soviet Embassy Retains Lawyer
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SEATTLE, February 10.
A Soviet Embassy official has retained Seattle’s leading criminal lawyer to represent a 37-year-okl Russian held on spy plot charges.
Alexander Tikhomi- : jrov, a translator at the Nations Secreta-I riat in New York, is 1 alleged by the Federal . Bureau of Investigation . to have attempted to obtain information about ; United States defences. ! l He was arrested in Seattle; Lon Saturday , Mr Vadim Kavalerov, First; . Secretary at the Soviet Em-; ! bassy in Washington, retained 5 { Mr Murray Guterson to represent the detained Russian The lawyer later went to; {see Tikhomirov in his city! gaol cell, where he is being . held. Mr Guterson said: “He is . concerned about being allowed to return to his job , in New York city and to his I wife and daughter who reside i there.” I In Washington yesterday, ; the State Department re- ; jected a Soviet claim of dip- • lomatic immunity for . Tikhomirov, saying that he ; had only functional immunity while working in his official capacity as a U.N. employee.
~ A Court hearing in Seattle, .{scheduled for tomorrow, was lexpected mainly to be con'cerned with the question of '{bail, Mr Guterson told reportI ers.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32219, 11 February 1970, Page 13
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