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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP58-00453R000300120036-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2000
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: January 1, 1955
• Content Type: MISC

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U. S. vs. r
7he I senberge were convicted of conspiracy to violate the
Rspie (18 U.S.C. 794) by furnishing information relating
to the natiFota l defense to R sia with "intent or reason to believe
that the as is to be used to the injury of the Tited States or
to the advantage of a tbreig, a nations." The case r embed the Supreme
Court eight i s on gent points. > y' of these pertain to the
i bi lity of evidence, sufficiency of the iM.tctweet, and other
setters specific to the case itself, but three =Kjor Constitutional
The &W ow Court refused to reverse the con-
viction or to roduoe the sentence on any of the grounds presented.
The e:lains of uneonstitutio itty were:
iol sted. the flxst Aptaftent, by
Vb; the Court held thet free
right to ecMa=icate defense
a forei t gor-ere nt;
(2) that the statute ass Indefinite
the due process ruse of the Fifth J nd=.
that the prohibited act arras defined With suf
(3) that the setnten" of death ves At o and unusu l
ash rent s the ibited act was t tunt to treason,
while the procedural recpcirs nts for try (two witnesses
to an overt act) were not net, and that therefore a subterfuge
being employed to justify the death penalty; the Court
di t ose4 of this arsgnt by pointing out that treason, wee not
the only c ital one on the statute books.
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