Word: gubichev
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Head held high, Judy went to the witness box to tell what a terrible mistake the Government had made in thinking that she, a trusted employee in the Justice Department, meant to give a purseful of secret data to Soviet U.N. Employee Valentin Gubichev...
...Female Heart. She spoke clearly and calmly, in a Brooklyn accent. She was not a Communist, not a spy-simply a victim of that Victorian malady, unhappy platonic love. She had first met the Russian, Gubichev, on Labor Day weekend, 1948, in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. They found themselves eyeing the same cubist painting, had begun criticizing it and then had wandered on through the gallery together...
...pair dodged surreptitiously all over Manhattan? Judy explained that Gubichev was afraid that his wife had hired detectives to follow them. He had also "petrified" her by muttering that the NKVD might be after him. Judy had thought the whole business was very silly -particularly sitting on different seats in an all-but-empty subway car. She had never dreamed that the car behind was stacked with FBI agents...
Finally, three fictitious but breathless-sounding FBI reports were planted on her desk. When she was arrested with Gubichev, in the shadows of Manhattan's Third Avenue elevated, her purse contained excerpts from the reports, plus 30 FBI "data slips" which pertained to security and suspected espionage agents...
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...