The State - News from June 20, 1986
The defense rested in the San Francisco espionage trial of former Navy radioman Jerry Whitworth after more than a dozen friends, relatives and other witnesses testified about his loyalty. Whitworth, 46, accused of selling highly secret cryptographic material to the Soviet Union through confessed spy John A. Walker, did not testify. The government plans to stage a rebuttal case to bolster the credibility of Walker, its star witness, whom defense witnesses called an admitted liar out to get Whitworth.
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