Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-03
SPIES

continued FROM rage Al
ough search was being made
Of the premises.
Two FBI agents stood guard
in the hallway outside the
apartment door, Reporters were
refused access to the roof over
the apartment, leading to spec
ulation that a short-wave radio
aerial may have been extended
to the roof from the "Baltches"
apartment.
Departure Of the prisoners
and the arresting agents was
delayed a few minutes more
just before II pm. because the
woman wanted to make up her
tear-stresked face. The couple
reached the Washington field
office at about 1880 pm, the
man being marched inside in
handouts
Meanwhile. FBI agents pho
tographed the contents of the
apartment, then removed four
large boxes of the 'rBaltches"
possessions.
The "Baltches" were ar
raigned shortly after midnight
before United States Commits.
sioner Sam Werlich.
Speaking in barely audible
voices, the pair acknowledged
that they were the persons
named in the indictment, and
refused to give any other names
than those they had lived
under.
Both asked that the hearing
be continued to give them time
to obtain counsel. The hearing
on the Governments request
for removal to the Eastern dis
trict of New York will continue
on July 16.
Charges Denied
At this point, "Baltch" an
nounced that the only state /
ment I want to make is that ]
deny these charges"
Commissioner Werlich ex-
planned to them that they were
not on trial, and that there was
no need to defend themselves
at the hearing.
The. Government, represented
by Assistant United States At
torney Frederick Smithson,
asked that the defendants be
held without bond, pointing out
that the charges could carry q
capital penalty.
Mr.. "Baltch" objected that
they were only accused of spy
ing, and that nothing had been
proven. The Commissioner ex-
planned that this was all that
was required for setting or de-
NAL of bond, and that they
could appeal to the District
Court to set q bond.
The couple was then taken
to District Of Columbia Jail.
Named as co-conspirators but
not as defendants were Aleksei
Tvanovich Galkin, As, Petr Egg
orovich Maslenikov, 4S, and
other officers Of the Soviet mil
itary intelligence in Moscow,
New York and Washington.
Left In May
Galkin. according to FBI Di-
rector j. Edgar Hoover, left the
United States on May 10 after
serving for several years as first
secretary Of the Byelorussian
Mission to the U. N. In New
York. Maslennikov left the
United States on May 8, He
had been first secretary of the
Russian Mission to the U. N.
Egorov was described as per-
sonable and fluent in English.
He made about $4,000 a year
in his job, dealing mainly with
arranging lease and education
grants, U. N. officials said. The
couples 12-year-old son, Mix
hail. is now in Russia, the FBI
said.
1t was the second time in
less than 26 hours that the
FBI has struck q blow ct the
Soviet espionage network in the
United States. Monday after
noon, an FBI investigation Of
the activities Of a Gennadiy
Sevastyanov, 80, a cultural at
tache at the Soviet Embassy
here, resulted in q State De-
partment order to expel him
for spying. Sevastyanov was de-
tected, with another Russian,
in the act of trying to persuade