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...months, U.S. Attorney Joseph Hoey and a team of assistants had worked to prepare the Government's case against accused Soviet Spy Aleksandr Sokolov and his mysterious female accomplice (TIME, July 12, 1963). In Brooklyn Federal Court last week everything was ready. The jurors had taken their seats and been sworn in. Within minutes Hoey would begin his opening remarks...
Names & Addresses. Sokolov and his accomplice, known variously as "Joy Ann Garber" and "Joy Ann Baltch," were nabbed by FBI agents in Washington in July 1963, charged with passing on to Moscow information about U.S. missile bases, troop movements and harbor defenses. In the $90-a-month Washington apartment where Sokolov and the woman lived, agents found the tools of the trade - short-wave radio equipment, cameras, film and electronic listening devices. Sokolov and Joy Ann faced a possible death penalty...
...Justice Department was keeping a guarded silence. But the circumstances surrounding the Sokolov trial offered another more plausible, and far more bizarre, explanation. At least 75 U.S. counterintelligence agents had done undercover work to help crack the Sokolov operation. Their testimony would be the core of the Government's case. Then, early last week, Attorney Edward Brodsky, appointed by the court to defend Sokolov and Joy Ann, dusted off a U.S. statute passed in 1795, which provides that the Government must reveal the "abode" of any witness in the federal trial of persons charged with a capital offense. Brodsky...
...Mystification & Futility." At week's end Sokolov and Joy Ann were still being held by U.S. authorities, but this time they were awaiting deportation proceedings. Said Judge Dooling as he dismissed the jury: "Your first sense of this must be a mixture of mystification and the futility of our week's work together. Neither you nor I can know with what complexities our Government has had to deal, and deal responsibly...
...face of the Sokolov denial, Princeton students maintained that an Embassy official had informed them by telephone on Friday that the controversial poet would speak at their cultural symposium April 19-21. "When I spoke to Mr. Bugrov at the Embassy this morning, he said Yevtushenko was still coming." James M. Stuart, chairman of the symposium, said yesterday. "Since then, of course, I've found out differently," he added...