Moris [Morris/Maurice]

Pseudonyms, References

Moris was used in two distinct instances:

  • An NKVD foreign intelligence cover name from the late 1930s which appeared in the notes on KGB foreign intelligence files taken in the mid-1990s by the former KGB officer and journalist Alexander Vassiliev. The bearer of this cover name was identified in Vassiliev’s notebooks as Abraham Glasser, an employee of the Department of Justice.
  •   According to Russian publications, one of the Soviet operational pseudonym for the resident of Soviet military intelligence (GRU) in Washington, D.C. from 1940 to 1945, Lev Alexandrovich Sergeev, who ran the “Omega” group of sources.