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3 accused spies plead not guilty in Virginia
February 23, 1998
Web posted at: 10:37 p.m. EST (0337 GMT)ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (CNN) -- Three accused Cold War spies, including a former Pentagon lawyer, pleaded not guilty to spying Monday in a federal courtroom in Virginia.
Former Pentagon senior staff attorney Theresa Squillicote, 40, was arraigned on espionage and conspiracy charges along with her husband Kurt Alan Stand, 43, of Washington, D.C., and James Michael Clark, 49, of Falls Church, Virginia.
U.S. District Court Judge Claude Hilton ordered their trial to begin July 20.
Clark is charged with providing secrets to East German intelligence from 1979 to 1984. All three were charged with conspiracy to spy on behalf of East Germany, the Soviet KGB, and its Russian successor. Squillicote and Stand are also charged with attempted espionage on behalf of South Africa last year.
Squillicote served as an attorney for the deputy undersecretary of defense for acquisitions from 1991 to 1997 and held a secret clearance.
Federal officials say the three were motivated by political ideology, unlike recently convicted U.S. spies who admit selling secrets solely for money.
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