Two charged with spying
NZPA Rome A Soviet airline, official and a top executive of an Italian microfilm company were formally charged with espionage yesterday, reports the Italian news agency, Ansa. ■ The agency said that Victor Pronin, the 46-year-old deputy head of the local Aeroflot station, had been charged with political-mili-tary espionage after a highlevel official of a Genoabased microfilm firm had reportedly admitted maintaining links with Soviet agents. Pronin and the microfilm executive, Azelio iNegnno.
aged 33. were arrested on Tuesday amid reports that they were trying to obtain N.A.T.O. deployment plans. Ansa said that Pronin had refused to respond to investigators after a brief meeting with two unidentified officials of the Soviet Consulate who visited him at Rome’s Regina Coeli Prison. An Italian magistrate, Domenico Sica, who is leading the investigation, then formally announced he was filing charges against the Soviet.Pronin’s defence laywers told Mr Sica that their client was not protected by diplomatic immunitv. . ’
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