The World - News from March 28, 1986
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A former U.S. Navy commander accused of passing secrets to Soviet KGB agents was released on $29,000 bail in London after surrendering his passport and travel documents to police. An attorney for James Bothwell, 59, said Soviet agents had approached his client but that Bothwell gave them only information he obtained from London’s Daily Telegraph newspaper and Newsweek magazine. Bothwell retired as a U.S. Navy commander 22 years ago and was working as a negotiator of commercial contracts between South Africa and the Soviet Union when he was arrested last month.
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