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  • In the hundreds of reports in her FBI file,* and in all the hours of testimony, there was never any definitive evidence that Jane knowingly crossed over from ordinary Communist Party work to outright espionage—becoming a significant source, serving as a courier, or passing valuable military secrets to Soviet intelligence—other than the word of Morros and Soble.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • In the hundreds of reports in her FBI file,* and in all the hours of testimony, there was never any definitive evidence that Jane knowingly crossed over from ordinary Communist Party work to outright espionage—becoming a significant source, serving as a courier, or passing valuable military secrets to Soviet intelligence—other than the word of Morros and Soble.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • We passed a part of the night of the 11th of March at the village of San Juan, remarkable for its thermal waters, and the singular form of two neighbouring mountains, called the Morros of San

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • We passed a part of the night of the 11th of March at the village of San Juan, remarkable for its thermal waters, and the singular form of two neighbouring mountains, called the Morros of San Juan.

    Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

  • "When the bombing started we ran, ran, ran, but then we were hit by stones when the bomb exploded," said Carolina Ventura, 23, nursing leg wounds and her 16-month-old son Jorge outside their mud-brick house in Santa Cruz, one of Lobito's "Morros," or shanty-towns, where UNITA is strongest.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • Looking eastward the land smoothens, the dorsa fall more gently towards the counter-slope, and there are none of the "Morros" which we have traversed.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • When Morros had offered her husband a job managing his art-house theater on rue du Faubourg Montmartre, they could not resist taking him up on it.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Morros, who was sixty-two, had reportedly been forced to work as a front man and courier for Soviet intelligence in an effort to protect his aged parents and in 1947 went to the FBI and offered his services as a counter-espionage agent.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • * A suave Slavic charmer, Morros liked to brag about his days as a child prodigy in Russia and claimed to have arrived in the United States at age sixteen, when he was already conducting the Russian Imperial Symphony.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Morros managed to charm the Russians into believing that the American woman who had squealed on him was merely jealous.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

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