RUSSIAN ACCUSED OF ESPIONAGE
Diplomatic Immunity Denied By U.S. SOVIET PROTEST REJECTED (N£. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 7 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Mar. 28. The United States State Department to-day rejected a protest by Russia against the arrest of Valentin Gubitchey. a Soviet employee of the United Nations, on espionage charges. A State Department spokesman said that the Soviet Ambassador (Mr Alexander Panyushkin) had been informed that the United States Government did not hold that Gubitchev had diplomatic immunity, and that “we will proceed with the legal processes.” Gubitchev and an American Justice Department employee, Miss Judith Copion, were arrested by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York. The State Department ruled that a person in Gubitchev’s position had diplomatic .immunity from legal processes only when performing acts required in his official capacity. This is a similar ruling to that given by the United Nations Secretary-General (Mr Trygve Lie) shortly after the arrest of Gubitchev.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25766, 30 March 1949, Page 5
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