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Spy Charges BaredAt Doctor's HearingCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Snow about the relationship (API—A woman bom in Yugo- after being questioned by Intel-stavi* said Wednesday that awColorado Springs doctor, whom she accuses of having performed abortions, turned her in to U.S. Army Intelligence as a Communist spy.iigence officers.At the time of the first abortion, she said, her husband went with her to St. Francis Hospital. They both believed that the operation was for a growth in heraDuring testimony before the! abdomen, she said.State Board oi Medical ,Esam-| “if mv husband had known!iners, Mrs. Ingrid Boss, 33, said also that she understood the physician had told the Tito government of Yugoslavia she was spying for the United States against that country.that it was an abortion,” Mrs. Boss said, “Dr. Cook wouldn't be in this room today.”She denied that she had been a spy. She said that she had heard of “fantastic Uireats toThe board is hearing Mrs. my [afni}y m ^ m Yugo-Boss’s charges against Dr. Ju-lius Erwin Cook. She has accused him oE having performed n five abortions upon her between November 1959 and April 1961. In addition, she claims, he arranged for another doctor to perform a s i m i I a r operation earlier.Mrs. Boss eonlends~and theUslavia, and to my husband'scareer.*'Attorneys did not go . deeper into the references to spying and threats.Mrs. Boss said before her flight to Colorado that she had received anonymous telephoned threats that a bomb was aboardts: .Xdoctor’s lawyer, James Moy- her plane. Evidence that suchii-11.C.%!V.ers of Colorado Springs, says Cook does not deny it—that she was intimate with the physician during that period.Moyers told the boaid that Dr. Cook does deny having performed abortions.“He committed an error in judgment in picking a companion at the time his home was breaking up,” the attorney said. “He won't deny tHe sexual relations, but when the evidence is in it will show that ‘hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.’ ”Army Intelligence and FBI agents have Indicated an interest in the case. They met Mrs. Boss’s plane when she arrived in Colorado from Ft. Devins, Mass., and a representative of each agency was present for at least part of the proceeding Wednesday.Mrs. Boss and her husband, Lt. Col. Keith Boss, reside at Ft. Devens. When the alleged intimacies and abortions occurred, they I i v ed in Colorado Springs and Boss, then a major, held a job involving the nation’s security at Ent Air Force Base.Mrs. Boss is a naturalized citizen of the United States.She testified that her hdsband returned home demanding tothreats were made has not been reported.Dr. Cook sat in the small hearing room in the El Paso County office building as testimony was given.Later, Dr. Cook told a reporter that he once went to Jamaica with Mrs. Boss and that he understood she planned to talk there with Yugoslavian officials. He said he did not know whether such a meeting ever took place.Dr. Cook is expected to take Hie stand Thursday. The presiding board member is Dr. C. Robert Stark of Denver,If the board finds Dr. Cook guilty it can put him on probation, suspend his license or take it away permanently.T;PreKuoThuiion
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Greeley Daily Tribune
Greeley, Colorado, US
Thu, Nov 21, 1963
Page 6
Full Page
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