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TITO'S COURT GAOLS
RUSSIAN "SPIES"
SARAJEVO, Fri.-The Yugoslav Judicial Tribunal to
^ day sentenced Aleksei Krizhko, a Russian Orthodox
priest, to ll years and six months imprisonment for
collaborating with Germans spying for Russia.
Nine co-defendants, among them
a former nun, were also convicted of
similar charges. Their sentences
ranged from three to 20 years.
The judgment by the Sarajevo
Court brought to a close the first
trial of Russian citizens held in an-
other Communist country since the
war's end.
The trial not only reflected a
bitter Balkan war since the ex-
pulsion of Yugoslavia from the
Cominform but also demonstrated
Tito's confidence in the security.
of his own position.
The defendants were all White
Russians or of White Russian ori-
gin.
The defendants testified that they
were required to report on Yugo-
slavia's political and economic con-
ditions and spread Soviet propa-
ganda.
The trial's keynote was indict-
ment, not so much of the defend-
ants, as of Russia. To' foreign ob-
servers it seemed obvious that the
trial was designed to show Russia
was willing to rauster acknowledged
former German^coliaborators for
use in the feud against Tito.
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