Word: brothman
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...atomic secrets to Russia had improved his hours in jail by dieting. With the shrunken look of an underprivileged cat, he slipped into the witness chair of a Manhattan federal courtroom one morning last week to testify against two of his old cronies. They were Chemical Engineer Abe Brothman, 36, and Brothman's assistant, spirited Miriam Moskowitz, 34, both accused of obstructing the U.S. Government's investigation of espionage...
...devastating story. He had been a Communist spy from 1935 to 1946, but he had never joined the party because U.S. party members, he said contemptuously, were "a lot of wacked-up Bohemians." In September 1941, his Russian bosses ordered him to take over the "apparatus contact" with Abe Brothman, who was then a chemical engineer for a N.Y. manufacturer. A few nights later, following instructions, he stood on a Manhattan street corner and waited until a car cruised up. He noted the license number, saw that the car was the one he was waiting...
Regards from Helen. "I opened the door and got in," Gold recounted. "The man inside seemed startled, but he seemed reassured when I gave him the recognition signal: 'I bring regards from Helen,' and asked how his wife was." "Helen" had been Brothman's old contact (and was, in fact, Elizabeth Bentley, then a Communist courier and now another witness against Brothman...
...Brothman's name was not a new one in the long investigation of Soviet espionage. Elizabeth Bentley, ex-Soviet agent, told a grand jury in 1947 that Brothman, a Columbia University graduate, had given her information which she had passed on to the Soviet ring. Brothman told the jurors that he gave Miss Bentley only simple chemical formulas, and that for the purpose of getting legitimate contracts from Russia for his chemical engineering firm...
...After Brothman's arrest last week, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover gave a different version of Brothman's operations: Gold, who has pleaded guilty to espionage and is now talking freely, said that Brothman had been commended by a Russian official for doing work that was "equal to the efforts of one or two brigades...