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He was then ordered to read from classified documents into the tape recorder, remove the tape, hide it in a cigarette pack and hand it to a 67-year-old female courier. He was assured that the FBI "would never suspect an older woman." Agents seized the courier as she was preparing to board a plane for Czechoslovakia. Her real name turned out to be Alice Michelson, an East German citizen who taught Marxist studies at an East Berlin institute.
· Samuel Loring Morison, too, hardly seemed an obvious suspect. A quiet and scholarly analyst at the Naval Intelligence Support Center in Suitland, Md., he is the grandson of the Pulitzer-prize-winning naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison. He was arrested last week after his fingerprints were found on the originals of three classified satellite pictures of a new Soviet aircraft carrier that appeared in the Aug. 11 issue of a British defense magazine.
Morison earned $5,000 a year as a part-time U.S. editor of Jane's Fighting Ships, one of a series of authoritative defense reference books. He gave the photographs to the company's new magazine, Jane's Defence Weekly. British intelligence sources claim that Morison leaked the pictures out of "patriotism." Morison, they suggested, wanted to publicize Soviet shipbuilding to help the Navy lobby in Washington. Morison's office typewriter ribbon, examined by FBI agents, told a different story. In a letter to Editor Derek Wood, Morison complained that the naval office job was a "pit." Wrote Morison: "My loyalty to Jane's is above question."
— By Alessandra Stanley.
Reported by Anne Constable/Washington and Joseph J. Kane/Los Angeles