The Nation - News from June 3, 1988

The imprisonment of former U.S. intelligence analyst Samuel Loring Morison, convicted of espionage and theft for giving information to a British magazine, Jane’s Defense Weekly, was put on hold by a federal judge pending a ruling by the Supreme Court. Morison had been scheduled to go to prison today. But U.S. District Judge Joseph Young in Baltimore issued a stay of imprisonment until June 15, Supreme Court officials said. Morison’s emergency request to remain free was referred to the high court by Justice William J. Brennan Jr. after Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist had rejected it, officials said.