U.S. Judge Denies Bail for Suspect in Espionage Case
A former U.S. intelligence agent accused of spying for the Soviet Union during the Cold War was denied bail Tuesday by a federal judge in Florida.
George Trofimoff was arrested last week in Tampa on charges of selling secrets to the Soviet KGB while he worked as a civilian at the U.S. Army’s Joint Interrogation Center in Nuremberg, Germany, from 1969 to 1994.
Trofimoff, 73, retired from his intelligence job in 1995 and moved to Melbourne on Florida’s east coast.
U.S. Magistrate Mark Pizzo denied bail for Trofimoff after federal prosecutors said there is a high risk Trofimoff would flee the country if he were freed.
Trofimoff’s attorney Daniel Hernandez argued that his client is unlikely to flee because of his age and because he would not want to leave his wife.
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