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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even hard-bitten Justice Department lawyers skipped a heartbeat last spring when accused Soviet Spies Jack and Myra Soble of Manhattan pleaded guilty to "receiving and obtaining" U.S. defense secrets (TIME, April 22). The plea got them out of a tougher charge of conspiring to transmit defense secrets to Soviet agents, and in return it seemed certain that the Sobles had agreed to tell their story. Last week, as a direct outgrowth of secret Soble testimony, a federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted two more Americans as members of the ever-widening Soble ring. The two: onetime U.S. Army Intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Ever-Widening Ring | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

...wireless unit that can be hidden in a car to pick up conversation as well as to record and transmit signals reporting the starts, stops and changes of direction; the signals are picked up by another car following several blocks behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Who's Listening? | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...called wireless microphones packed into transmitters no bigger than a pack of cigarettes and so sensitive that they can pick up whispers in an average room, transmit them by radio to receiving and recording equipment hundreds of feet away. The wireless mike can operate as long as four days without running down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Who's Listening? | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

Last Chance. The guilty plea on the lesser charge of receiving and obtaining secrets indicated that the Sobles had made a deal for their lives. Probable deal: the U.S. Government would drop the death-penalty charge of conspiracy to "communicate, deliver and transmit" defense secrets to Soviet agents if the Sobles would tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Guilty | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

Refinements still to be made by Zworykin's technicians include modifying the capsule so that it can transmit information on internal temperatures and acidity, and reducing its size. One refinement ruled out (partly because of bad lighting conditions ) by the inventor of edible FM: intestinal television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Alimentary FM | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

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