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From the beginning of the Judy CoplonValentin Gubichev espionage trial, Manhattan's big, moon-faced Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan had been getting a hotfoot from the defense lawyers almost every day. Even after Judy fired her bench-baiting lawyer-brassy, little Archie Palmer-in midtrial, things did not improve. The court got her three lawyers who had been assisting Archie. Judy pouted and said she didn't like them. Then the attorneys pouted. They obviously hoped to appeal on grounds that Government Girl Judy Coplon was the victim of prejudicial treatment: as the trial drew to a close...
...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...
Listening In. Agent T. Scott Miller 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...
Agent John T. O'Shaughnessy said in an affidavit that he had monitored both Judy's and Gubichev's phones in New York in one three-month period, swore later on the stand that he had never listened in on Gubichev's phone in that period. Agent James J. Lynch disclosed that he had spent six months-five days a week,' eight hours a day-glued to Gubichev's phone and had heard only five conversations, some involving Gubichev's wife. Did she speak English or Russian? asked Abraham Pomerantz, Gubichev...
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...