Boris Morros

Communist + Double Agent + Spy

Male

Born Jan 1, 1891

Died Jan 8, 1963

Boris Morros was an American Communist Party member, Paramount Studios producer, Soviet agent, and FBI double agent. Morros was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and emigrated with his family to America in 1922. He was recruited as a Soviet spy in 1934… Read More

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NYTimes - Apr 13, 2003

SAM SPIEGEL The Incredible Life and Times of Hollywood's Most Iconoclastic Producer. . . . By Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni. Illustrated. 464 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $30. THIS book was written out of a kind of love, as the author tells us right off. Sam Spiegel (1901-85), a ''treasured friend'' of her stepfather, Harold Pinter, and her mother,
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Books Of The Times; Romantics And Hustlers With Gloves, Cloaks And Daggers
NYTimes - Jan 18, 1999

THE HAUNTED WOOD Soviet Espionage in America -- The Stalin Era By Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev Illustrated. 402 pages. Random House. $30. ''The Haunted Wood,'' as its subtitle spells out, is a history of Soviet espionage in the United States during Stalin's dictatorship. More exactly, the book covers the period from around 1933, when the
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Thomas B. Gilchrist Jr., 81, A Former Prosecutor
NYTimes - Aug 18, 1993

Thomas B. Gilchrist Jr., a former city, state and Federal prosecutor whose cases included mobsters, bingo profiteers, Communists and spies, died at home on Saturday. He was 81 and lived in South Salem, N.Y. The cause was heart failure, his family said. Mr. Gilchrist served as the Chief Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of
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Martha Dodd Stern Is Dead At 82; Author And An Accused Soviet Spy
NYTimes - Aug 29, 1990

LEAD: Martha Dodd Stern, an American author who in the 1930's and 1940's wrote popular books about Nazi Germany and later fled behind the Iron Curtain when she and her wealthy husband, Alfred K. Stern, were accused of being Soviet spies, died on Aug. 10 in Prague, friends reported. She was 82 years old and had lived in the Martha Dodd Stern, an
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1891 Birth Born in 1891.

THIRTIES

1922 31 Years Old Morros was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and emigrated with his family to America in 1922.

FORTIES

1934 43 Years Old He was recruited as a Soviet spy in 1934, and Vasily Zarubin first became his contact in 1936.

FIFTIES

1943 52 Years Old 1 More Event

The mysterious "Mr Guver" letter, sent to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1943 from an anonymous source now widely believed to be KGB Officer Vassili Mironov, named Morros as an agent working with Soviet intelligence and identified Elizabeth Zarubina as Morros' contact.

1947 56 Years Old In 1947, Morros became a counterspy for the FBI. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

1960 69 Years Old In 1960,Man on a String a feature film loosely based on Morros' adventures as a counterspy, was released. … Read More

1963 72 Years Old He died in New York City on January 8, 1963.

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