The Nation - News from July 20, 1989
Federal prosecutors in Savannah, Ga., rested their case against a Turk accused in a plot by an Army officer to sell U.S. military secrets to the Soviet bloc. Defense attorney Lamar Walter was expected to call the defendant, Huseyin Yildirim, 61, to the stand to explain his relationship with former Army Warrant Officer James W. Hall II, who is serving 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to nine counts of espionage. Yildirim is accused of acting as a courier between Hall and agents for East Germany, beginning in 1982.
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