Word: valentine
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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...