DATE=6/14/2000
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=U-S / SOVIET SPY (L)
NUMBER=2-263494
BYLINE=MICHAEL BOWMAN
DATELINE=MIAMI
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: A retired U-S Army colonel has been charged
with spying for the former-Soviet Union. As V-O-A's
Michael Bowman reports, the suspect is the highest-
ranking U-S military officer ever accused of
espionage.
TEXT: The U-S Attorney's Office in Tampa, Florida
says Colonel George Trofimoff sold U-S military
secrets for 25 years before retiring in 1995.
The suspect, a naturalized U-S citizen of Russian
descent, allegedly had secret dealings with the Soviet
K-G-B while serving at a U-S Army facility in
Nuremburg, Germany.
U-S Attorney Donna Bucella says Mr. Trofimoff was
recruited by a Russian Orthodox archbishop and K-G-B
contact, Igor Susemihl, and that he stands accused of
32 counts of espionage.
/// BUCELLA ACT ///
Trofimoff secretly took classified documents
from the Nuremburg J-I-C (Joint Interrogation
Center), photographed them, and later exposed
the film to Igor Susemihl or a K-G-B
intelligence officers.
/// END ACT ///
Ms. Bucella says the information the colonel divulged
harmed U-S national security.
/// BUCELLA ACT ///
Those documents included intelligence objectives
which listed current intelligence information
acquired by the United States, intelligence
priorities for strategic planning -- which
identified the current intelligence needs of the
U-S military, and Soviet and Warsaw Pact "order
of battle" documents -- which detail the U-S
current state of knowledge of Soviet military
organizations.
/// END ACT ///
An indictment unsealed Wednesday alleges George
Trofimoff's activities helped the Soviet Union
penetrate and neutralize perceived threats to its own
security.
The suspect was living in a small Florida town
(Melbourne) at the time of his arrest. The case is to
be prosecuted in Tampa. (SIGNED)
NEB/MCB/JP
14-Jun-2000 17:08 PM EDT (14-Jun-2000 2108 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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