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Handsome, young (30) Russian Navy Lieut. Nikolai Gregorovich Redin sat, strolled, fidgeted. A few hundred feet away in Seattle's Federal Building a jury was weighing his acts, his motives, sorting and sifting the thousands of words of evidence, judging him by his looks, his actions. Like many a U.S. citizen before him, Nikolai Redin knew then the excruciating suspense of waiting for a jury to come...
What would those quiet-eyed men and those neatly dressed American housewives believe of a Russian these days? Would they, as folks did in Russia, believe that any man accused by the Government was automatically guilty? Nikolai Redin waited...
There was almost no substantiation of Kennedy's accusations. But there was none either, for Nikolai Redin's denials in his halting, faulty English. Yet the American judge had warned the jury it must find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt before it could convict Redin...
...Nikolai Redin grinned, and followed a time-honored American custom. As the jurors walked past him he shook each by the hand and smiled into embarrassed but understanding eyes. Then he scurried through the crowd to a telephone and called his wife...
...press found little exciting in the espionage trial of Russian Lieut. Nikolai Redin. Most papers carried a casual paragraph or two each day of the trial. But one reporter at the press table in Seattle filed a thumping 1,500 to 2,500 words a night to New York, and got no squawks from his employer. He was greying, 41-year-old William E. Dodd Jr., son of the late U.S. Ambassador to Germany. His employer: Tass, short for Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union...