US retracts statement that alleged Russian spies in Hawaii used additional aliases

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – The U.S. authorities is retracting its assertion {that a} Hawaii couple accused of being Russian spies had been utilizing extra aliases.

Earlier, the federal government argued the couple — Walter Glenn Primrose, also called Bobby Edward Fort, and Gwynn Darle Morrison, also called Julie Lyn Montague — seemingly had different aliases.

On Friday, Morrison’s lawyer Megan Kau filed a movement as a complement to a movement and joinder to revoke the detention order so the couple can submit bond till their trial. It mentioned the defendants acquired an e-mail from the federal government addressing the retraction.

The e-mail famous the federal government retracts the argument that Primrose and Morrison had been utilizing extra aliases and that two people mentioned these “references” had been nicknames and the product of inside jokes.

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Within the movement, Kau mentioned “these spy allegations have broken the defendants’ reputations, have precipitated them to be held with none foundation, and have been reported on internationally.”

Primrose and Morrison are accused of stealing the identities of lifeless infants from Texas within the Nineteen Eighties, and residing below these names for many years. Primrose served almost twenty years below a distinct title within the Coast Guard.

Federal brokers additionally just lately seized the suspected KGB uniform seen in pictures worn by the Kapolei couple.

Each are charged with identification theft, mendacity on their passport functions, and conspiracy to commit crimes towards america.

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