Word: coplon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anything happened?" asked worried, aproned Housewife Judith Coplon Socolov, as she was accosted on her Brooklyn stoop by two newsmen. The answer was no, and the absence of news made a front-page story in the newly enterprising New York Herald Tribune. Twelve years before, Judith Coplon, then a 27-year-old Justice Department employee, was arrested for trying to pass classified information to a Soviet agent, was convicted on two counts of espionage. But her sentences, which totaled 25 years, were variously set aside and postponed. After the Supreme Court refused to review the legal confusion, the Justice Department...
...find a better man." Last week, to replace Connole, the President named Brooklyn-born Thomas James Donegan, 53, a former FBI agent and member of the Subversive Activities Control Board, who helped present the evidence to federal grand juries that indicted Alger Hiss, William W. Remington and Judith Coplon. Also named to the FPC was Paul A. Sweeny, 64, a Democrat and Justice Department lawyer, who will fill the post of John B. Hussey, who died recently...