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Last spring, an acquaintance called at the crowded flat where Carmen, her husband, her baby and her parents were living. Tall, dark, handsome Faustino Valentin, who introduced himself as a lawyer, listened with fascination to Carmen's story. "Hasta luego, Marquesita" he muttered thoughtfully, bowing over the girl's graceful hand as he left...
Last month, onetime Red Hero El Campesino (real name: Valentin Gonzalez) told a Paris court: "I am ready to go to Russia with an international commission and show them the graves of millions who died in concentration camps. I am ready to show them the camps where I was. I am ready to show them other camps. Then the commission will conclude that the thing called Communism is, in truth, vulgar fascism only under a red banner...
...public had never heard of keenwitted Manhattan Lawyer Abraham L. Pomerantz until he bobbed up late last fall as counsel for Russian Spy Valentin A. Gubitchev. For that job Pomerantz got an undisclosed fee (from an undisclosed source) which he claims was "the biggest ever paid in a criminal case." But that was not his usual line of work; only twice before in his career had Pomerantz taken a criminal case...
...question FBI agents about wire-tapping but was silenced by Judge Albert Reeves after the Government attorney denounced the questions as "nonsense" and a "fishing expedition." In New York, Judge Sylvester Ryan has been conducting a pretrial hearing to determine if the Government's case against Miss Coplon and Valentin Gubitchev was based on information obtained by wiretapping--it having been disclosed that 30 FBI agents monitored the wires leading to the home of Miss Coplon's parents and 10 agents monitored the wires leading to the home of Mr. Gubitchev...
...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...