The nation . lk-ed on the telephone to ElizabethBentley (who was then busy testi-fying before several Congressionalcommittees) but he was pretty sureshe didnt know who he was andtherefore everything was all the next two years, the twofamilies lived side by side, as Elitch-er was successful in locating a housenext door to Sobells. He knew thathis neighbor had a Leica camera,and an enlarger and material forprocessing film, and that he occa-sionally took material out ofReeves in a briefcase, but what thematerial was, I do not know. He hadlast seen him in June of 1950, whenSobell told hi
The nation . lk-ed on the telephone to ElizabethBentley (who was then busy testi-fying before several Congressionalcommittees) but he was pretty sureshe didnt know who he was andtherefore everything was all the next two years, the twofamilies lived side by side, as Elitch-er was successful in locating a housenext door to Sobells. He knew thathis neighbor had a Leica camera,and an enlarger and material forprocessing film, and that he occa-sionally took material out ofReeves in a briefcase, but what thematerial was, I do not know. He hadlast seen him in June of 1950, whenSobell told him that he was goingto bring their daughter to visitWashington. The next thing heknew, the family was gone. This, inbrief, was Elitchers story. JUDGE KAUFMAN told the jurythat if you do not believe the testi-mony of Max Elitcher as it pertainsto Sobell, then you must acquit thedefendant Sobell. Was Elitcherstestimony, uncorroborated as it was,capable of reasonable belief? Was itenough to supply the guilty mind. necessary to transform the vaca-tion to Mexico into a flight? Thewitness, who freely admitted that hehad lied as to bis Communist Partymembership in a sworn applicationfor government employment andhoped that he wouldnt be indictedfor perjury (he never was), told astory that, with the exception of theCatherine Slip episode, consistedsolely of a few discussions with Sobellabout some extremely nebulouspionage. Even if one accepts the maddash to Catherine Slip (whichElitcher omitted from his first twowritten statements to the FBI andfrom his initial testimony before thefederal grand jury) at face value,there is no evidence whatever as tothe contents of the can Sobell sup-posedly took with him, or that itwas even delivered to for Rosenberg, no witneswere present at any of these crucialconversations with Sobell, althoughsome of them occurred when otherpeople were in the immediate vicin-ity. One of these persons — — was never called to thestand,
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