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Judith Coplon was born on 17 May, 1921 in Brooklyn, New York City, is an A 20th-century American Jews. Discover Judith Coplon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 89 years old?

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Occupation Analyst, U.S. Dept. of Justice
Age 89 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 17 May, 1921
Birthday 17 May
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York City
Date of death 26 February, 2011
Died Place Manhattan, New York
Nationality United States

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Her husband is Albert Socolov

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Parents Samuel and Rebecca Moroh Coplon
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Children 4, including Emily Socolov

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1921

Judith Coplon Socolov (May 17, 1921 – February 26, 2011) was a spy for the Soviet Union whose trials, convictions, and successful constitutional appeals had a profound influence on espionage prosecutions during the Cold War.

Judith Coplon was born on May 17, 1921, to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York.

Her Father Samuel Coplon was a toymaker and mother Rebecca Moroh a milliner.

She went to public school Joseph F. Lamb (PS 206) in Brooklyn, New York.

In high school she won an award for a good-citizenship award and a full scholarship to Barnard College.

At Barnard, she majored in history and joined the Young Communist League.

1943

In 1943, she graduated cum laude.

She was recruited for Soviet espionage at Columbia University by Flora Wovschin and Marion Davis Berdecio.

1944

In 1944, Coplon obtained a job in the US Department of Justice.

She transferred to the Foreign Agents Registration section, where she had access to counter-intelligence information, and was allegedly recruited as a spy by the NKGB at the end of 1944.

1945

Evidence later emerged that Coplon was recruited as a Soviet spy during the early months of 1945.

Coplon had a meeting with Vladimir Pravdin, the NKVD station chief in New York City on January 4, 1945.

Pravdin was impressed by Coplon who was described as "very serious, shy, profound girl, ideologically close to us."

He went on to argue: "We have no doubts about the sincerity of her desire to work with us. In the course of the conversation (Coplon) underlined how much she appreciated the credit we gave to her and that, now knowing for whom she was working, she would redouble her efforts. At the very first stage of her work (Coplon) thought she was helping the local compatriots (the CPUSA).... She thought the stuff acquired by her couldn't represent an interest to the compatriots but could for an organization like the Comintern or another institution bearing a relationship to us. She added that she hoped she was working specifically for us, since she considered it the highest honor to have an opportunity to provide us with modest help.'" Soon she was recruited as a Soviet spy (codenamed Sima).

Coplon became one of the NKVD's most valued sources.

Her main attention was focused on the main Justice Department counterintelligence archive that collected information from the various government agencies: FBI, OSS, and naval and army intelligence.

She passed to her NKVD contact a number of documents from the archive.

That included FBI materials on Soviet organizations in the United States and information on leaders of the Communist Party of the United States.

1948

She came to the attention of the FBI as a result of a Venona message in late 1948.

Coplon was known in both Soviet intelligence and the Venona files as "SIMA."

She was the first person tried as a result of the Venona project, but for reasons of security, the Venona information was not revealed at her trial.

FBI Special Agent Robert Lamphere testified at her trial that suspicion had fallen on Coplon because of information from a reliable "confidential informant."

An extensive counterintelligence operation planted a secret document for her to pass to the Soviets.

1949

In 1949, three major cases against communists started in the United States: that of Coplon (1949–1967), that of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers (1949–1950), and that of the Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders (1949–1958).

FBI agents arrested Coplon on March 4, 1949, in Manhattan, as she met with Valentin Gubitchev, a KGB official employed by the United Nations while she was carrying what she believed to be secret US government documents in her purse.

Coplon's attorney was Archibald Palmer and Gubitchev's was Abraham Pomerantz.

Coplon was convicted in two separate trials, one for espionage that began on April 25, 1949 and another for conspiracy along with Gubitchev in 1950.

She was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

1950

Both convictions were later overturned, in 1950 and 1951 respectively, on appeal.

The appellate court, sitting in New York, concluded that while the evidence showed that she was guilty, FBI agents had lied under oath about the bugging.

Moreover, the opinion said that the failure to get a warrant was not justified.

The court overturned the verdict, but the indictment was not dismissed.

In the appeal of the Washington trial, the verdict was upheld, but because of the possible bugging, a new trial became impossible.

For political and evidentiary reasons, it never took place.

1967

The legal irregularities ensured that she was never retried, and the government ultimately dropped the case in 1967 along with the return of her bail money of $40,000.

The Coplon trials commanded nationwide attention.

After her arrest but before her trials, Coplon received earnest attention from the media.

For example, Gertrude Samuels wrote for The New York Times, questioning the situation: Why do some people become traitors?

What turns some native-born Americans, as well as naturalized citizens, into Benedict Arnolds and Quislings?

What motivates them to betray their country and themselves?... Samuels examines four kinds of traitors: professional, people loyal to their birth lands, crackpots, and idealists.