Show gets four years as bed red spy second trial guilty verdict OTTAWA ONT harold S ger son 42 year old montreal geologist was sentenced to four years in pris on tor for conspiring with russian agents to divulge secret government information to the soviet union A jury found gerson guilty after 3 hours and 45 minutes of delibera tion gerson was found guilty on a similar charge a year ago and sentenced to five years in prison he won an appeal after serving six months of the sentence the government governments s case against gerson was based on a page of itose leat notebook paper containing secrets of the explosive it was in gerson s handwriting and was turned over to the govern ment by igor goulenko Gou zenko former code clerk at the russian embassy I 1 |