SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE
. (N.Z.P.A.-
-Reuter,
Young American Woman On Espiouage Charges
CopyrigVit)
Received Friday, 9.40 p.m. AYASIHXGTOX, April 28. The prosecution charged today tliat Judith Coplon was earrying seeret inl'ormation 011 an atoiuic testing device at the time slie was arrested in Xew York in th,e eompany oi' Valentin Gubitcliev, a Russian engineer. The statement was made by the Federal i Prosecutor (Raymond Whearty) in liis opening address to a jury oi: eight men and i'our woinen who will decide whether Goplon, the 27-year-old former employee of Ihe Justice Department, is guilty oi: espiouage. Mr. Whearty said when Coplon was arrested F.B.I. agents i'ound in her purse aeenrate ini'orination 011 the "geophone," which is nsed at the Xew Mexico atomie proving ground to record the pressure oi' atomie explosions. Mr. Wliearty said the information was on the seeret list and had never been released by the Atomie Energy Commission, Imt added tliat it would be unimportant if it ieil into unauthoi'ised hands. AI r. "Whearty said another item I'ound in Coplon \s purse was a jiaiidwritten meuioranftiun based on a ''planted" F.B.I. report slie had s en Ihe morning before her arrest. Coploii's purse also eontained a sealed paeke! wherein there were over •')() suiniiiaries of F.B.I. reporls on internal seeurity. The I'l-oseeiitor saul ('oph)ii s poeketbook e nitaiie'd a note teiling of defeitdaiU 's " uusueeessl'ul effort g> ]>roeiire from Foley Cpresum .i hly VVilliam F. Foley who was Coploii's superior in the ioreign agents' registrution seetion) a top seeret F.H.l. report on Communist aetivi! ies in the LTiited States. Justiee Department officials eslimated today that about oue aiil'ion Amerieans belong to Communist or other subversive oruaiiisations. Oflieials said no exaet membership figures were a vailable foi' the 160 groups the lepartment regards as "sub\ersive" or opposed to the prin*'ples oi' demoeral ie governments. '!"' • Communist Party. with about 70.000 payers of dues, has the i.u-»'-si known membership of airy of the groups. '
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 April 1949, Page 5
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