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From the moment he walked into court to defend black-haired Judith Coplon (TIME. March 14) on charges of espionage, it was obvious that Attorney Archibald Palmer would do his best to turn drama into burlesque. In years of trying bankruptcy and miscellaneous claims cases in Manhattan, loudmouthed little Archie Palmer had learned every trick. Last week in Washington, he used them...
...Secret. The Government's cold and correct prosecutors called a series of cold and correct G-men to the stand to present a damning case. As a Justice Department political analyst, Barnard-educated Judy Coplon had kept her desk loaded with scores of secret documents; she had been trailed by the FBI, been seen keeping clandestine appointments with a Soviet United Nations employee, Valentin A. Gubichev...
Defense Attorney Palmer played it as though the Government's attorneys were just straight men in his act. In cross-examining the agent who described Miss Coplon's arrest, he snatched up her handbag, minced up & down before the jury. "Now comes this great eclipse," he bawled, "this marvelous piece of FBI ideology!" When searching her, he said, the FBI had "stripped her from pillar to post" and from "topsail to feet...
Apparently discarding a defense he had used immediately after Judy Coplon's arrest-that she had just been gathering material for a book-he told the jury that she had kept trysts with Gubichev because-"She got an affection for him," he cried. "When you are in love with a person you don't care whether they are red or green. Love knows no bounds...
...month room. Nights, she studied for a master's degree at American University, wrote a critical paper on "Economic Planning in the Soviet Union." Most weekends, Judith went home to Brooklyn to visit her ailing parents. Her mother had heart trouble; her father, Samuel Coplon, a retired toy merchant, was paralyzed. Samuel Coplon used to be known as the "Santa Claus of the Adirondacks": he gave away thousands of toys to country kids at Christmas. One night last week, the Coplons waited in vain for Judith. For when Judith arrived at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station...