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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, September 1, 1985

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 01, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday september 1, 1985 Fri agent Miller admits showing secret document to soviet Lover los Angeles a in his fourth Day of grilling by Fri  agent Richard w. Miller admitted he showed his soviet Lover a classified document in his bedroom according to testimony Friday. He said she took the document held it in her hands and looked at it said Fri agent Larry Torrance adding thai Miller Drew a diagram of where the two were standing in the bedroom. He said she. Asked if she could have  Miller a 20-year Veteran of the Fri is its first agent Ever tried for espionage. Torrance one of those who interrogated Miller said that Milter also admitted he took two classified documents along when lie and his Lover Svetlana Ogorodnikova drove to the soviet consulate in san Francisco. Miller acknowledged that she look the documents inside the consulate and also took in his Fri credentials. Just give me the confession i la sign anything Tor rence quoted Miller assaying on oct. 1,1984. Torrance disclosed the full extent of Miller s admissions for he first Lime at Miller s trial in . District court. Miller maintains he was trying to infiltrate the soviets spy network in order to Salvage his faltering Fri career. Torrence was challenged by defense attorneys who tried to show that the agents harassed Miller to exhaustion and led him to say things he did t mean. Torrence denied this. Miller. 48, is charged with conspiring to pass classified material to the soviet Union through Ogorodnikova. If convicted he could be sentenced to life in prison. Ogorodnikova and her husband Nikolay. Pleaded guilty in the midst of their earlier trial and have received prison sentences. After Days of denying that he passed classified material Torrance said Miller admitted he had photocopied one Classi fied report for the express purpose of showing it to her. He said he knew he was out of line said Torrence that he had deluded himself that he had lied to himself about this and lied to other people about his  Torrance recalled he said he had considered giving her a classified document something he considered Pinnoc  _ he said Miller told of going to a copying machine in the Fri s los Angeles Headquarters and running off a copy of a or Rumen titled reporting guide foreign intelligence  it was that document and another he admitted taking to san Francisco on aug. 24, 1984, said Torrence. But he could not remember what the other document was. Carson divorce settlement finalized los Angeles a tonight show Host Johnny Orson settled a divorce dispute with his third wife Joanna on Friday with the signing of an 80-Page agreement that gives her $2.2 million in payments during the next five years. Carson who has been paying her $35,000 a month since april 1984, will continue the payments for 64 additional months according to the Superior court agreement. The total payments including those already made add up to $2.8 Mil lion. She also will receive two new York apartments a Home in Bel air calif., a Rolls Royce a Mercedes Benz and 310 shares of Carson production corp. Carson will keep three  Angeles condominiums a Malibu Beach Home a Scottsdale ariz., Home and 310 shares of Carson production corp. He will retain All Stock on Toni son apparel. In Carson productions Carso tonight and Johnny car the agreement was worked out during settlement negotiations that began aug. 5 under the direction of retired Superior court judge Lester Olson. If the dispute had not been resolved it could have gone to trial. Olson called the agreement fair and reasonable and pronounced the marriage dissolved. The entertainer s attorney Henry Bushkin had left his office for the labor Day weekend when his office was contacted by the associated press. Joanna Carson s attorney Arthur Crowley was also out of the office. Carson spokesman Jim Mahoney said the entertainer would have no further comment on the divorce. The agreement provides a detailed listing of the division of Bank accounts stocks and personal property such As paintings. Joanna Canon also won residuals of any to night show reruns of shows from 1972-79. The couple married in september 1972 and separated in november 1982, citing irreconcilable differences for the split. Joanna and Johnny Carson. .$2.8 million in payments por Arys the Ami expenses. The judge cancelled the expense Money in october 1984. She told the court her current monthly expense were approximately $54,000, and noted that Carson s monthly income is $1.5 million. Miss no. Runner up loses fight Trenton . A the runner up in the miss new Jersey pageant lost her court Battle Friday to rep resent the hate in the miss America pageant when a state appeals court refused to dethrone the Winner. The appellate division of Superior court denied a re quest by second place finisher Laura Ann Bridges that the reigning miss new Jersey Toni Georgiana be stripped of her title. Bridges a 24-year-old dental student from Jersey City argued through her lawyers that Georgiana 21, should not be allowed to compete in the 65th miss America pageant next month because she falsely represented herself As a a fide student in new be i y when she entered the state contest. In the absence of collusion bad Faith or wholly arbitrary action by the official it would be presumptuous for us who Are neither answerable for the consequences nor conversant with the affairs of the pageant to Tell the pageant that Georgiana was ineligible to participate in its Competition the appeals court said. The court concluded that it has no authority to inter Vene in the matter which it called a private affair and that its opinion of whether Bridges was treated fairly was irrelevant. Before the slate pageant georgians had registered fora two week summer course in cont no  
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