Word: butenko
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeals involved two men who were convicted of conspiring to transmit U.S. defense secrets to the Soviet Union-an American engineer named John Butenko and Igor Ivanov, a chauffeur for a Soviet trade agency in the U.S. In their cases, and another that involved a pair of extortionists, the Government's position was that the trial judge should decide what portions of the eavesdropping transcripts were "arguably relevant" to the trial. He would then turn over those portions-and only those-to the defense...
Dispatch Case. The traitor is John W. Butenko, 39, American-born son of Russian immigrants, honors graduate in engineering, trusted employee in New Jersey of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., and holder of top security clearance as a key electronics technician dealing with counter-strike operations of the Strategic Air Command. Trailed for six months by FBI agents, Butenko was picked up in his automobile at a deserted railroad station one night in October 1963. With him were two Soviet diplomats (since expelled from the U.S. after invoking diplomatic immunity), and Igor Ivanov, a "chauffeur" for Amtorg, the Soviet...
...Butenko, a hypertensive bachelor, insisted that he was trying to get information about relatives behind the Iron Curtain. Witnesses testified that Butenko's dispatch case, containing two secret documents, was found in the Russians' car near by, along with a copying machine, a radio and a cigarette case, each concealing a camera, and an electronic signaling device. In Newark last week a Federal Court jury found Butenko and Ivanov guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage, and Butenko alone of failing to register as an agent for a foreign government. Sentence has not yet been passed, but both...