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Wednesday, September 18, 1985AThe Battalion/Page 11 World and Nation Spying Former FBI agenfs defense case begins Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Before former FBI agent Richard W. Miller was fired and charged with spying, he asked a private detective to photo graph his meetings with Russians for eventual delivery to the FBI, the de tective testified Tuesday. Hoping to prove that the first FBI agent charged with espionage was trying to catch Soviet spies, not be come one, the defense launched its case by calling Lawrence Grayson, a private investigator who reluctantly disclosed details of his meeting with Miller. Several times, Grayson said he couldn’t remember details and only volunteered them after defense at torney Stanley Greenberg showed him transcripts of his previous ac counts to the FBI. Grayson said Miller met him on Aug. 15, 1984, and asked if he had sopnisticated photographic equip ment. He said Miller proposed that Grayson take pictures of Miller with “inuividuals of Russian nationality” at a meeting in Mexico tentatively scheduled for that October. “I asked basically why wasn’t he having his own people take pic tures,” said Grayson. “He said be cause his credibility was shot, and by using me he’d get back his credibility with the bureau.” Miller, 48, who had been assigned to counterintelligence, was arrested Oct. 2 and charged with conspiring to pass secrets to the Soviets for $65,000 in cash and gold. If con victed, he could receive a life sen tence. His attorneys maintain he had sought to redeem his faltering ca reer by infiltrating the Soviet spy network, and hoped that Grayson’s photos would help him do so. Greenberg asked if Miller indi cated what he would do with the pic tures. “He didn’t really discuss what he was going to do with them,” Grayson said. “He said he wanted to have his people believe him about what he was going to do.” Earlier Tuesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Russell Hayman read ju rors descriptions of 51 classified doc uments found in Miller’s desk at the FBI’s Los Angeles office - after his ar rest. They included memoranda deal ing with Soviet foreign counterintel ligence, the handling of “assets” or informants, and the role of double agents in the FBI foreign counterin telligence program. Greenberg then read a list of clas sified documents found in Miller’s apartment, which included an FBI telex regarding codefendant Svet lana Ogorodnikov and her previous role as informant to the FBI office in Los Angeles. He acknowledged that also in Miller’s apartment was a copy of a document entitled “Reporting Guidance: Foreign Intelligence In formation,” part of which referred to Soviet Union intelligence. The government alleges Miller gave that document to Ogorodnikov. Grayson’s testimony came after U.S. District Judge David Kenyon rejected a defense motion to throw the case out. / Escapees caught after three days Associated Press SPRING CREEK, N.C. — Two Arkansas jail escapees charged with killing a state trooper were captured Tuesday by authorities who had used bloodhounds and helicopters to search wooded mountains for three days. “We have two suspects in custody shortly before 4 p.m.... in the Char lotte’s Branch area,” said state High way Patrol Sgt. George Dowdle. The capture came the same day a woman reported a break-in at her isolated house and troopers spotted the pair fleeing a suspected camp site. “We woke ’em up this morning” about 8 a.m., Trooper R.E. Gant said. “They left everything . . . We saw ’em going down the other side of the mountain. We’ve been on ’em all day.” Authorities said a .30-06-caliber rifle, ammunition, food and a blan ket stolen from Rachel Gillespie’s house were found at the site, 300 yards from her house in a Blue Ridge Mountain hollow. Four helicopters carrying officers ready to rappel to the ground had scoured tne wooded Madison County ridges. Jimmy Rios, 23, of Branch, Ark., and William Bray, 21, a drifter who uses several addresses, including Lexington, N.C., were among five prisoners who broke out of the Franklin County, Ark., jail in late August. They were believed armed with a _ .22-caliber rifle and the slain troop er’s .357-caliber Magnum pistol. The fugitives were charged Mon day with murder in the shooting death of rookie Trooper Robert Lee Coggins, 27, of Bryson City, who was shot twice in the head Saturday after he stopped a pickup truck reported stolen in Arkansas. 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The white-minority govern ment contends the schools pro vided meeting grounds for riot ers. Near Johannesburg and Preto ria, authorities for 19 months have been trying to force black youngsters to attend school. Students there began boycot ting classes in early 1984, com plaining about inferior educa tion. Now they are staying away to protest the presence of the army and police in black town ships, and the state of emergency that imprisoned hundreds of stu dents without charge. In other developments: • Black students boycotted classes near Johannesburg and Pretoria. • On the second day of its in vasion of Angola, the South Afri can military offered no news about the fighting. A spokesman blamed bad communications. • Louis le Grange, minister of law and order, was quoted by a pro-government newspaper, The Citizen, as saying “there is a defi nite decline in the number of inci dents of unrest in the country.” The paper suggested authori ties might soon lift the 8-week-old state of emergency, imposed in an attempt to quell rioting against apartheid, South Africa’s system of enforced racial segregation. President P.W. Botha says se curity forces are needed in the townships to quell intimidation by radicals, rioting and general law lessness. Le Grange reported last week that 660 people had been killed in rioting that began 13 months ago, two-thirds of them shot by police and the rest killed in black-on- black clashes. He said 11 police were among the dead. The private South African In stitute of Race Relations, which has its own casualty list compiled from police and newspaper re ports, says more than 700 have died. The country’s military kept quiet the day after it opened an air and ground assault into south ern Angola, where the govern ment says it is chasing guerrillas fighting for the independence of South-West Africa, also called Namibia. A military spokesman in Preto ria characterized the fighting as “small groups of troops following tracks, ,v and said communications with men in the field were poor. Correspondents are barred from the area. The military’s top commander, Gen. Constand Viljoen, said in announcing the invasion Monday that it was intended to derail a P lanned artillery offensive by the outh-West Africa People’s Orga nization. SWAPO, which has its military ower base in southern Angola, as fought a guerrilla war for 19 years against South Africa’s ad ministration of Namibia. FREE MINE COURSES No registration required. 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