The Nation - News from April 8, 1986
A jury of 10 women and two men was told in Alexandria, Va., that Richard Craig Smith, a former Army counterintelligence officer and Mormon missionary, sold information about several American double agents to the Soviet Union for $11,000. But Smith’s attorney, Brent Carruth, said that his client gave the Soviets nothing but “old sludge . . . chickenfeed” while he was working secretly for the CIA, and that now the American spy agency is “leaving Mr. Smith out to dry.” Smith is charged with one count of conspiracy and two of espionage.
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