TRIALS: What the FBI Heard

It was the FBI's turn to squirm on the witness stand.

By week's end, 77 G-men had 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 by the FBI?

The evidence was still far from complete, but it was enough to sketch a strange picture of the FBI at work.

Listening In. Agent T....

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