Figure in Spy Case Surrenders to INS
A Soviet immigrant convicted in an espionage probe that snared an FBI agent surrendered in Los Angeles to face deportation Monday as his attorneys fought to keep him in the United States.
Nikolai Ogorodnikov, 59, turned himself over to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which last summer was cleared by a federal judge to deport him after his release from prison.
The possibility of a quick deportation was forestalled Monday when U.S. District Judge David Kenyon granted a stay and told the government to respond by Oct. 28, said immigration attorney Dennis Wilson. The INS contends that Ogorodnikov deserves to be deported because he and his wife, Svetlana, 41, pleaded guilty in 1985 to espionage.
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