Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Good riddance

Judith Coplon Socolov, one of those Americans who happily spied for Stalin, died earlier this month.


Judith Coplon, Haunted by Espionage Case, Dies at 89



Like Alger Hiss and the Rosenberg's, she went to her grave denying her treachery.


The Times's story is a fair presentation of the basic facts. They give her daughter a lot of space to justify her actions which amounts to the current party line:

If you feel that what you’re doing answers to a higher ideal, it’s not treason.”


Ronald Radosh and Daniel Flynn have useful correctives to this sort of balderdash:
Another American Spy for the Soviets Dies … and the Left Regards Her as a Hero


Spies Like Us


The FBI's pursuit of Coplon is told by the FBI man who was at the heart of the investigation. It's a great read and illustrates the problems that prosecutors face when dealing with spies and terrorists.


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