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Familiar Words. In their garage apartment, Jackin and Prowska heard over & over again on the radio the strange name Gubichev, and the familiar words Moscow, Stalin and Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Rhymes with Spy | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...Blood. Unlike them, Abraham L. Pomerantz, Gubichev's lawyer, battled hard for his client. The substance of his defense: the stolid Russian, a $6,050-a-year engineer for the U.N., had not kept his Manhattan trysts with Judy to receive state secrets from her, but only to express his "hot-blooded" love. But when the jury came in, after 19 hours and 10 minutes, its foreman announced that the verdict for both defendants was: "Guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Day of Judgment | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Judy stared accusingly at the jury with tears welling up in her eyes. Her alleged lover, Gubichev, looked only infinitely bored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Day of Judgment | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Smiling Defiance. Gubichev smiled. The judge stared sternly, and then, before agreeing to the Government's request, voiced his pent-up indignation on Gubichev: ". . . You came here as an emissary of peace; you were acceptable among us in the role of a friend . . . but you betrayed the cause of peace. You have, by your acts, attempted to destroy the hopes of millions . . . And you do all this with arrogance . . . there is a smile on your lips . . . you are defiant of all humanity." Then, sentencing Gubichev to 15 years in prison, and suspending the sentence, the judge warned that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Day of Judgment | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

That did not quite end the CoplonGubichev case. Though the State Department's request for a suspended sentence (made for the sake of U.S. nationals behind the Iron Curtain) had given Gubichev a chance to go scot-free, he didn't jump at it. Obviously he had to wait while the Kremlin made up his mind for him. His attorney went ahead with plans for appeal-just in case his bosses left him in the lurch. But they didn't. After four days, Gubichev got his orders: he would be shipped out on the Polish liner Batory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Day of Judgment | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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