This book's two authors began their research with opposite assumptions. Thomas Mitchell, a former FBI agent, listened to some of the wiretaps. He writes, "I heard the panic, and, I was certain, the guilt in her voice."His wife, Marcia Mitchell, reasoned that if Coplon had really been a spy, the government would have brought a much stronger case.
And it could have. At the end of the book, the authors explain why it did not.
Coplon was a spy. In the 1990s, the government declassified intercepts of coded messages from the mid-1940s between Russian agents describing her in unmistakable terms. But the intercepts could not be used in the trial because it would have blown the cover of the government's code-breaking. All of which explains why a half-baked case was presented with such insistence.
It was true that the Coplon case and those against Hiss and the Rosenbergs stigmatized left-wing views. But the case was not about that. It was about spying, and the spying, the authors conclude, was real.
You're blowing bong smoke.
All Coulter said was:
"In 2002, the Seattle Times described the case against accused spy Judith Coplon as "entirely circumstantial."
That is a true sentence.
You said it was a lie.
You are the liar.