BUTENKO AND SOVIET SPY GET PRISON; RED'S APPEAL IN OPEN COURT FAILS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000101200004-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2014
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 19, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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DEC 9 7964 .
utenko and Soviet Spy Get rison;
. Special to thejlerald Trtbune.
NEWARK, N. J. ??
. k One sentence at a time, the ?
) convicted spy, a chunky young
,man with Close-Cropped' blond
hair and a handsome Slavic ?
? face, spoke in Russian. One
. sentence at a time, the inter-
preter repeated the words in
'English to the hushed court-.
? TOOM.
I came to this country to
* :.work as a chauffeur. . . .
And I worked here only as a
chauffeur. . . During my stay
In the United States, includ-
ing. up to today, I did not
!come to break any laws...?.I
consider my A rrest. an unfor-
tunate misunderstanding. . . .
? I fully and completely reject
.the indictment in this case.
..I .'am. not. guilty."
.? Moments later, U. S. 'Is-
? ? Arict,COurt Judge Anthony T.";
? Augelli? sentenced the. young..
r' Russian, Iger ?Iva1i0v;* to. 20
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lir Open Court Fails
?
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?
American convicted with : ?
W.13utenko; .39, a'
? pallid engineer :with ? tousled
gray hair, was sentenced to
30. years.. . .
Augelli told the two
'defendants, "You have corn-,
,crime so heinous'
In nature' the law permits a
sentence . of death."
? Both were taken to the
grim Hudson County Jail, in
Jersey City, pending appeal.
It was Ivanov's first stay in
jail; he had been free in
'. $100,000 bail, posted by the
? Soviet Embassy in an un-*
' precedented action. Butenko-
; had been in jail since the two
were arrested Oct. 29, 1963,
in the deserted parking lot of
; 'the Erie-Lackawanna Rail-
road station in Englewood. .
;' ? The?FBI agents who picked ? ?'
'them': up *said they seized a ?
Russia within a few .days.
? " Before the sentencing, Bu-
tenko thanked the court and
his. lawyer? Ra..7.m.cnd. Brown.,
mrid said: Tes.aize I 'hive.
? been found guilty according
.to our form of Justice by a
jury. However, I know I am
"innocent. I have done noth-
ing to harm the security of ?
my. country. I just want to
*ask the court for mercy and
clemency. I hope that some
; day, time will vindicate me."
A jury deliberated 10 hours
. before finding the ..ttita, gifiltY?
briefcase containing ?docu-
I .ments ? about a secret Air
;"Force project on which Bu-
tenko' was working . as a
31.4.000-a-year engineer at an
antc..--ni;:trant.2 7.7%.31ttnitta.-..ie
! Telegraph division plant in
! 'Paramus.
Ivanov, 34, was identified
r a chauffeur for Amtorg,
" the Russian trading corpora-
tion. Two Soviet UN Mission
,members were arrested with
)3utenko and Ivanov and they
',and a third mission member
were named in the indictment
"as 'co-conspirators. The three;,
who were cOvered by diplo-
matic immunity, went back to
7
Igor Ivanov
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Herald Tribune?UPS telephoto
John Butenko
.- Judge Augelli, who presided i
during the eight-week trial.; ?
said to Butenko yesterday: "I
regret to say I have found no.
(cfmr.r.u..Y.1.7.1g rnrcainig
cumstances in your case:" ?:
He sentenced Butenko to 30 ;
years for conspiring to spy for
Russia, five years for con-
spiring to violate the law re-
quiring rOiistration of foreign ,
agents and five years for act- ?
Ing as an unregistered Soviet
agent, all three terms to run
concurrently.
. Ivanov drew 20 years on the
espionage conspiracy charge
and, concurrently, five years
for conspiracy to violate the
registration law.
Ivanov's lawyer, Samuel A.
Lamer, had suggested that
his client's sentence should be
.expulsion from the country.
FBI agents had testified to
finding small two-way radios,
which they said Butenko and
*the Russians used to keep in
touch with each other while
traveling to secret meeting
places, and a tiny camera. ,
But,enko, a bachelor who
was graduated with honors:
from Rutgers, the state uni-
versity, 'in 1949, testified for ? .
'two days. Ivanov, who lives
. In a Manhattan apartment
with his wife and seven-year- ,
'old daughter i did .not take ;
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/06: CIA-RDP73-00475R000101200004-0