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It had to do with the difficulties of introducing classified evidence (photos of an atomic bomb casing) into a criminal proceeding. The prosecutor put the photo in an envelope with a little flap that could be flashed open. So they could flash it at the witness briefly.
Apparently that was enough to get the witness to break down and confess, and end the trial. Just such a wonderfully ridiculous example of how secrecy makes certain things (esp. criminal proceedings) difficult.
What's annoying is I do have a lot on court proceedings from this time — but none of the ones I have are the one with the little envelope.pic.twitter.com/7wbgYyzUHn
Which time? And what was the crime?
Probably late 1940s. Crime was something to do with the photos — selling them or something. There were a few cases at the time about this. May have been the Alexander von der Luft case. But I'm just not finding the specific anecdote I remember...
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(And Spotlight is trash for this sort of thing.)
