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...week's end, 77 G-men had testified in Manhattan's federal courthouse or submitted affidavits. All of them were busy trying to answer Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan's pertinent question: How much of the Government's espionage case against Government Girl Judy Coplon and Russia's suspended U.N. employee, Valentin Gubichev, was based on wiretapping evidence gathered illegally...
...testified that in May he did not know that the telephones of Judy and Gubichev were being tapped, then admitted later that as early as February he had personally seen and destroyed records of the intercepted talks. The monitors, Miller admitted, had even listened in on conversations between Judy Coplon and her lawyer, Archie Palmer. They also had heard the FBI described in burning four-letter words...
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...
When his client went on trial for espionage in Washington last spring, lumpy little Archie Palmer had tried to save her with wild histrionics and indigestible tales of international romance in Manhattan's subways. Archie failed; Judy Coplon was convicted and sentenced to 40 months to ten years in prison (TIME, July 11). Last week, as Judy prepared to go on trial in Manhattan on an additional charge of conspiracy, Archie Palmer was still his corny, arm-waving self, but he had discovered a new angle. Teamed up with a shrewd Manhattan attorney named Abraham Pomerantz, Archie complained that...
That feeling gained some respectability eight weeks ago when Federal Judge Albert Reeves ordered into the record the complete FBI reports which Spy Judith Coplon had hastily abstracted for her Soviet friends. The FBI had wanted to withdraw from the trial rather than let its reports be admitted into evidence. For one thing, innocent people were involved. To be sure, the FBI could (and did) explain that the reports-attributed to confidential informants identified only as ND-402, ND-305 and T-7-were unprocessed, unevaluated raw material. They were also, undeniably, a bewildering clutch of gossip, hearsay and trivia...