Word: antonetta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Liberation, the Soviet espionage operation got under way in 1985 after Konorev met and seduced a Rumanian woman named Antonetta Manole, who worked at the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies in Rouen, northwest of Paris. She, in turn, allegedly had an affair with her French boss, Pierre Verdier, and brought him into the conspiracy. Verdier later visited Moscow, where he fell in love with a woman named Ludmilla Varygin. The Soviets are said to have agreed to allow Varygin to emigrate to France to marry Verdier, but only if he would provide them with important...
...picked up the phone at the family home in Queens and said simply, "Well?" Ferraro: "It's yes." Laura: "Are you sure it's not 'maybe'? Are you sure it's not 'possibly'?" "It's definite," replied Ferraro. Laura screamed to her father, "Yes!" Then Ferraro called her mother Antonetta, 79, and told her to stop worrying about living alone in New York and "shift your prayers somewhere else." Said Antonetta: "I think I'm so excited, I'm going to faint...
...father, a prosperous restaurateur. During her first year he celebrated her birthday every month, lavishing dolls and frilly dresses on the little girl. When he died of a heart attack, Ferraro, then eight, was devastated. She was gravely ill with anemia for a year. Facing reduced circumstances, her mother Antonetta moved Geraldine and her brother Carl (now with New York City's human resources administration) to the South Bronx and took a job in the garment district crocheting beads on dresses. Urged on by her mother, Ferraro won successive scholarships to Marymount School in Tarrytown, N.Y., and Marymount College...
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