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Indignant Denial. Barely was Attassi disposed of when Syria's military tribunal announced another espionage case in the offing. Billed as the master agent was Elie Cohn, an Egyptian Jew who stands accused-with no fewer than 63 accomplices, including 17 women-of spying for Israel. In neighboring Lebanon, Beirut's violently anti-Baath newspaper Al Moharren reported that Cohn had passed himself off as a Syrian expatriate millionaire named Kamel Amin Tabet, and had become a close friend of Baathist President General Amin Hafez by bankrolling his party's activities. Cohn-Tabet became a member...
Syria's regime indignantly denied that a Jew could have become a top Baath leader but conceded that for years Cohn-Tabet has been passing Syrian secrets to the Israelis. According to one rumor, he was on the closest terms with three of the five members of the military court that is about...
...Brian lards his critical comment with gossipy, digressive asides. Before this year's presidential election, he solemnly informed his readers that Lyndon Johnson was Jack O'Brian's man. When Lawyer Roy Cohn, a personal friend, put in a guest appearance on TV, O'Brian seized the opportunity to describe his buddy as "articulate, poised, informed, brilliant and even humble"-virtues rarely lumped together in a description of Senator Joe McCarthy's onetime sidekick...
...Cohn's acquittal may be cited by some lawyers to show why prosecutors mortally fear mistrials. After the first courtroom conflict last April, the jury was on the verge of convicting Cohn when the father of one of the jurors suddenly died. The judge excused the juror; as a result, the trial turned into a mistrial (TIME...
...second time before the bar, Roy Cohn got another break. Unlike Sam Sheppard (see above), he never had to worry about an overzealous and unfriendly press. Reporters rarely got near him. At the outset of the trial, Judge Dudley Bonsal warned jurors to avoid reading controversial stories about Cohn and not to see Point of Order, the documentary film on the Army-McCarthy hearings in which Cohn starred. Judge Bonsal refused to let newsmen into the well of the court during recess to talk to witnesses or counsel, and he scolded those papers that printed the names of the jurors...