The Region - News from Aug. 2, 1985
A jury of seven women and five men was impaneled for the trial of the first FBI agent ever accused of spying. Former Agent Richard W. Miller, 48, is charged with having conspired to pass classified documents to the Soviet Union via emigres Svetlana Ogorodnikiva and her husband, Nikolai, in return for $65,000 in cash and gold. Six alternates were also selected.
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