Soble

What is evident in Soble's description of eros is a shift away from the sexual: to love something in the “erosic” sense (to use the term Soble coins) is to love it in a way that, by being responsive to its merits, is dependent on reasons.

Love Helm, Bennett 2009

According to the indictment, Jane and George, when not taking orders from Soble, did jobs for the “mysterious Boris Morros,” as the Times called him, a Russian-born Hollywood producer who was secretly working as a double agent.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

Her testimony had helped to convict Alger Hiss and expose Jack Soble.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

She outlined her relations with Jack Soble, the money she had lent him for his business back in 1947, and her efforts to collect it some years later when she learned he was in Paris.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

She told of meeting the Sobles through Martha Stern in New York and how, after Jack Soble expressed interest in the Indonesian conflict, she had given him a copy of her OSS report to read.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

Jack Soble testified at length about their political activities in Lithuania in the 1920s and 1930s, and later in Germany, where they joined the Communist Party and supported its “Trotskyite wing,” and sometime in 1940 begun gathering information for the Soviet Union, employing many family members in their ring.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

In addition, all of the messages are secondhand accounts by Zarubin or another Soviet handler reporting to the KGB about what various American sources—Martha Dodd Stern or Jack Soble or Morros—said or claimed to have done.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

He was apparently never viewed as having much potential, and Soble wrote him off as a “parasite.”

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

Jack Soble, in handcuffs, and his wife, Myra, being led by a federal agent, pled guilty to “receiving and obtaining” U.S. defense secrets and testified that Jane and George were members of their Soviet spy ring in return for a more lenient sentence.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

Morros reported to the FBI that Soble praised Jane as one of their “best agents” and supported this claim by explaining she had gathered information on Americans in Austria but “destroyed the notes” when her Soviet contact failed to show, although she managed to pass along a report on “the Marshall Plan in Paris.”

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011