Word: coplon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Federal courts, Justice Department and FBI officials are hoping to gain the tool which will permit them to prosecute cases in which they lack other types of evidence. If Congress legalizes wiretap evidence, the Justice Department will undoubtedly try to avenge its failure to prove a case against Judith Coplon or to get the grand jury to indict Harry Dexter White...
Born. To Judith Coplon Socolov, 29, facing a third trial on spy-conspiracy charges, and her lawyer-husband Albert H. Socolov: a daughter; in Manhattan. Weight...
This week the United States Supreme Court refused to review the case of Judith Coplon, onetime Justice Department employee, and thus made it all but certain that she will never have to serve sentences totaling 25 years for I) stealing secret U.S. documents, and 2) trying to turn them over to Russia. Arrested in 1949, Defendant Coplon was convicted first in Washington and later, in a second trial, in Manhattan...
Appeal courts ruled that the FBI made legal blunders in gathering evidence and in arresting Miss Coplon without a warrant. The Government asked the Supreme Court to reverse these rulings and let the original verdict stand. As a result of the Supreme Court's refusal to take the cases, Judith Coplon (now Mrs. Albert H. Socolov) will probably go scot-free. Justice Department attorneys said a new conviction will be impossible because the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that documents found in her purse when she was arrested may not be used against...
Marzani out, Wadleigh, George Shaw Wheeler and a few others." McCarthy had nothing to do with any of them. Hiss was flushed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Wadleigh, like Hiss, was named by Whittaker Chambers. Judith Coplon (who was employed in the Justice Department) was arrested by the FBI. Marzani was uncovered by the State Department's own loyalty investigation in 1946. George Shaw Wheeler was never in the State Department, but with the U.S. Military Government in Germany; he was denounced by Michigan's Representative George A. Dondero in 1947 and eased out while facing...