The Nation - News from Feb. 23, 1986
An autopsy showed that convicted spy Larry Wu-tai Chin died of asphyxiation in his cell after tying a plastic trash bag over his head, the U.S. Marshals Service said. Chin, a retired CIA translator who was awaiting sentencing after being convicted Feb. 7 of spying for China, took the bag from a wastebasket in the day room of the Prince William-Manassas Regional Adult Detention Center in Virginia near Washington, authorities said.
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