United States v. Egorov

We affirm in open court the order of the district court denying bail to Ivan Dmitrievich Egorov and Aleksandra Ivanovna Egorova pending trial, and we deny their application for bail.

Egorov and Egorova, who are husband and wife, were arrested on July 2, 1963 on a charge of conspiracy to commit espionage in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 794 (a), an offense which may be punishable by death. Thereafter on July 15, 1963, an indictment was returned in the Eastern District of New York charging against appellants and three others with conspiracy to communicate, deliver and transmit to a foreign…