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merhterwhoash-end? heforEx-Intelligence Agent Declines To Defend Self. BERLIN ItB—An ex-U. S. military intelligence agent stubbornly fa refused to defend himself today 'but as hi“ 1x131 on charSes of illegaljut possession or top secret documents . _ opened here. Polish-born Michael R. Rothkrug -Bill of Westport, Conn., suddenly an-_ nounced to the court after contin-uance motions by his attorney were denied;“I do not want to be defended.I am not. prepared to go on. And j I do not want to be represented v1® by Counsel.”,.°y U. S. District Judge Dewitt White tutu warned him:, that such a decisionis an ill-considered move” and, . -m “Sd after explaining possible serious tne consequences,, urged him to recon- * -v. sider. -4 ■ txiix.the *'i am not prepared/* Rothkrug HJff?said, shrugged his houlders and the gat down- His German attorney ex-cased himself and left. Judge White the ordered the trial to-begin, silt.. Rothkrug was arrested last fall six after resigning as documents chief of a military intelligence detach-the? merit here. He was accused of tafc* eial ing many classified documents the with him when he left. ’The prose-and j eution charged Rothkrug had in ira- j his possession enough documents i to Jeopardize the entire network vbilt 1 of informants working for U. S. cir- intelligence here.
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Newport Daily News
Newport, Rhode Island, US
Thu, Jan 08, 1953
Page 19
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