Word: microdot
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...next two defendants had lived in the humdrum London suburb of Ruislip as Peter and Helen Kroger. Their modest home was littered with the latest espionage devices, ranging from microdot readers to long-range radio-transmission equipment. The Krogers claimed to be New Zealanders; actually they were U.S. Citizens Morris and Lona Cohen, with a long history of Communist ties. They had dealt with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the executed atom spies, as well as with Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel, now in Atlanta federal penitentiary serving a 30-year term for espionage. The Cohens were each sentenced to 20 years...
...court, Lonsdale seemed fatalistically detached. Curiously enough, police searching Helen Kroger's handbag had found a microdot message from Lonsdale's wife and a six-page handwritten letter in Russian from Lonsdale in reply. Wrote his wife: "How unjust is life. I fully understand you are working and this is your duty and you love your work and try to do all this very conscientiously. Nevertheless my reasoning is somehow narrowminded in a female fashion and I suffer dreadfully. Write to me how you love me and maybe I will feel better." In his reply to "beloved Galiusha...