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Scientist Sentenced in Israel As Spy, Appeals to Supreme Court

February 14, 1961
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Kurt Sitte, the Czech-born scientist who was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment last week on charges of espionage, filed an appeal today in the Israel Supreme Court. Prof. Sitte, until his detention last fall, was head of the physics department of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He was convicted of passing secret material to foreign agents.

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