Word: coplon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some form or another since 1934: the charge of Democratic softness toward Communists. Familiar with such tactics as they were, from previous encounters in the ring, the President and his aides were plainly worried about how to counter the punches this year. The trials of Hiss, Fuchs and Coplon gave the Republicans more wallop than they had before. The headline-catching feints of Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy (see below), even if he hadn't landed any hard blows, were not making it any easier. Five speech-writing aides were put to work preparing the pattern of the President...
...costs the taxpayers a pretty penny, Attorney General J. Howard Mc-Grath said in Washington. He listed the costs of recent "big headline" trials: the Axis Sally trial came to $55,000; the Tokyo Rose case, $75,000; the trial of eleven Communists in Manhattan, $128,000; the Judith Coplon case, $75,000; the Alger Hiss case...
...Washington trial as evasions. He will have to find some stronger term to characterize FBI conduct in connection with the case before his own court. For an FBI memorandum has now been discovered recommending destruction of all wire-tap records (in view of the immency of her (Miss Coplon's) trial. Previously an FBI agent had testified under oath that the wire-tap records had been destroyed as a matter of routine. The destruction of these records, itself a violation of law, makes it very difficult, of course, for the defense to prove that the Government's case rested...
This assertion is astounding, coming as it does from a man whose agents have lately been caught in a bare-faced attempt to deceive a United States Court about their wiretapping activities. During the Washington trial of Judith Coplon for violation of the Espionage Act, her attorney tried to question FBI agents about wire-tapping but was silenced by Judge Albert Reeves after the Government attorney denounced the questions as "nonsense" and a "fishing expedition." In New York, Judge Sylvester Ryan has been conducting a pretrial hearing to determine if the Government's case against Miss Coplon and Valentin Gubitchev...
Buffoonery or Eccentricity? The FBI's records showed that at least one prime piece of evidence-Judith Coplon's plan to go to New York on the day she was arrested there with Gubichev-had come through a tap on the Coplons' Brooklyn telephone...