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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...
...Lieut. Redin, a Soviet Purchasing Commission agent, had been picked up by the FBI just before he and his attractive wife Galina were to depart for Russia last March. The charge: he had bought secret information about the not-so-secret U.S. Navy destroyer tender Yellowstone. His accuser: a man he had thought was his friend, elderly Herbert Kennedy, a marine engineer who worked in the yards where the Yellowstone was built...
Kennedy had testified that Redin had pumped him for information about the Yellowstone, its steering gear, machinery, radar; Redin, he swore, had paid him $250, had told him "Speed counts, it means thousands of dollars...
...aware that Washington grants a courtesy immunity to all embassy personnel, refused to surrender Ruess. The Russians insisted. Ambassador Smith demanded an exit visa for his clerk. The Russians refused. Last week, with Clerk Ruess confined to Embassy grounds, the khuligan crisis was at a standoff. Meanwhile, spy-suspect Redin, under $10,000 bail bond, was awaiting trial (on June...