The Nation - News from Dec. 3, 1985
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Retired CIA employee Larry Wu-Tai Chin, 63, pleaded innocent in Alexandria, Va., to the charge that he spied for China for more than 30 years. Meanwhile, a prosecutor warned that the wife of another spy suspect, Jonathan Jay Pollard, might try to sell classified documents if she were freed on bail before her trial. In papers filed in federal court in Washington, U.S. Atty. Joseph diGenova said the government may not have recovered all of the classified documents allegedly stolen by Pollard.
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