03-05-2014, 01:17 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:I found Marina, in private, to be quite forthcoming. The one thing she would NOT speak to were any intelligence connections she might have had [and I believe she had low-level ones] in the USSR [and likely a 'sleeper' position to watch the American agent she married]. Again, I think this is for her own protection and that of loved ones. She feels she has been used and had a hard time. She wants the Truth to come out, but has left it to others to lead the charge. I'd love her to be more 'front stage', but understand her position - which is a very personal one.
I agree that she likely was a sleeper agent. It was the only way the Soviet authorities would allow her to marry an American and leave so easily. I think she also spoke English better than she claimed back then. There's a clip of her on YouTube being interviewed in January 1964 by a Texas reporter, and her English is very good. It's amazing, because at the same time the WC was supposedly using interpreters during her testimony.