The Nation - News from March 1, 1985
A federal court of appeals in New York ruled that Hana Koecher, the wife of accused Czech intelligence agent Karl Koecher, cannot be held in jail for refusing to testify against her husband. But the judges gave prosecutors time to appeal before Hana Koecher, 40, is released. Her husband, 50, is being held without bail in New York on charges that he was a communist spy who penetrated the CIA during the 1970s.
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