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Show thra employed la hi department, that the message was "strictly confidential,' "hot," and Nm; Interesting In-teresting when he gave It to heg In Washington on the morntne; . toe day ahe was arrested. 1 Foley said he didn't know at the time that the message was a decoy. He added that ha thought the Information In it was "mostly true." . Coplon's Ex-Boss Tells of Giving Secret Decoy Note NEW TORK. Nov. IS WV-Ju-dith Coplon's former boss told Wednesday of riving the young woman highly secret memo that related to atomic energy and turned out to be a decoy. The government charges that excerpts from the message were found in Miss Coplon's. purse when FBI agents arrested her and Soviet engineer Valentin Gu-bttchev Gu-bttchev la New York. William E. Foley, head of the Internal security and foreign agents registration section of the jusitce department, told of giving the message to the former government govern-ment glH. He was the lltn snd last witness called In federal court hearing by which Miss Coplon's lawyer, Archibald Palmar, la seeking to prevent her from being tried with Valentin Qubitchev on a spy eon-spiracy eon-spiracy charge. Foley said he told Miss Coplon, |