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iv - afr. Belivont C Cc Me. Mohr. ‘ Me Catper My €-Pakan Mr, Canrat (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Mr isa a ; Mr Mr, i “ om Mow Pe ctor, Tele. Boom .. fits Helimnes INFORM ON Mi MARTELLI?” vee {<Dip RUSSIANS _ DEFENCE QUESTION Gewepaper, city and state.) TO JURY “ Did the Russians themselves Mr. Hutchinson said that from the i : rr Dr. Martelli was exasperaicd. at getting no information| Rusia” Pont SME Nested to bs | |e Times tell the British security branch abou getting fed up with him. “If Dr. Martell Dr. Giuseppe Martelli? Mr. Jeremybis telling the truth he had riven no informa- Hutchinson, Q.C., asked the secrets trial tion and had none to give.” jury at the Central Criminal Court Mr. Hutchinson said that if Karpekov Page 7 _ yesterday. controlled other persons in Britain and one —_— 1 . .... of those was a scientist, then to ‘turn if ah ie tae od on nom classified work the useless Dr. Martelli might divert atten- in the Atomic Energy ‘Authority's fom from anybody who was really spying: Lond laboratory at Culham, Oxfordshire YS in some scientific establishment in this naon, England pleaded Not Guilty to ‘nine charges under COUNTY: : ws ici: ; Earlier he said to the jury: “The over- the Official Secrets Act. The prosecutiot whelming fact is that Martelli had no a have said th \ p spy for Rusca’ he was ready to act as * (information to pass, He never had any ' i Mr. Hutchinson, in his closing speech information to pass and there is no escape — for the defence, yesterday said that who- from that. ever gave the first information to’ th security branch about Martelli was cons | POTENTIAL BLACKMAIL nected with Karpekov (a Russian, He referred to the Russian intelligence | Embassy man named as the Soviet agent | methods including blackmail, and went on: n controlling * both Martelli and Vassall, “ No one believed that a responsible person a Xv ‘the Admiralty spy). -." over here, a Minister, would, give secrets 7 to some girl—of course not, thal woul ; an ae “NEARLY LIQUIDATION ” } ridiculous —but what 4 fantastic achieve- 4 Mr. j i | ment for the Russians to have got someone r., Hutchinson said that Karpekov | in such-a position of potential blackmail. arrested by Scotland Yard. Vassall con- | lt is fantastic to have achieved that ing 3 situation. fessed to being a spy when he was caught “One always believes that everybody, to an atedly, Passed classified material particularly oneselt. will stand uP is black= Date: T/ 1 2/ 63 : . . mail, an at one could resist blackma allegation against Dr. Martelli come | ft needs courage, and in this particular caso Edition: from ?” ! d rarer . — —hav slipped away six days before Vassa!l was selves for some reason or other? W does not know... Editor: knows 7 it is not liquidation, of cours€, “ be i f but it is not far short of that, so far : Maral “Why be too auice this and ae Title: GUISEPPE ENRI Dr. Martelli is concerned if he were ; , i , i 0 Lf didn’t you do that’. It is not too easy to be convicted of this offence,’ behave in the way we think we should,” Asking the jury to return verdicts of Not Guilty on all the counts in the indictment, aid: “This is an all-or- is indictment has been Character: Ts - R or Classification: Submitting Oftice: London Jay eg i NOT RECORDED JUL 18 1963 -_% . vi are vane aaa PS Feasting te ven tis: ge tes we * ae * “ :