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U.S. Woman on Trial for Spying in Israel Receives American Aid

October 9, 1956
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The State Department said today that facilities normally available to American citizens under criminal charges abroad have been afforded a 29-year-old American woman charged with spying by Israel.

State Department spokesman Lincoln White said that a decision in the case of Mary Frances Hagan, of Huntington, W. Va., is expected from the Israel court on Thursday She is accused of espionage in Israel on behalf of Syria. Miss Hagan identified herself as the wife of Galeb Kayali, a Syrian diplomat once stationed at the Syrian Legation in Washington.

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