Returned U.S. Defector Interrogated by Army
Military authorities here on Friday interrogated an American soldier who returned to the United States after defecting to the Soviet Union.
Pvt. Wade E. Roberts, 22, of Riverside, Calif., has been in Army custody since his arrest Wednesday in West Germany.
He defected in April but says he returned to the West because his West German girlfriend, Petra Neumann, is pregnant and he didn’t want “to go around for the rest of my life having a charge from the United States hanging over my head.” She did not return with him to the United States.
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