Walter Primrose and his wife Gwynn Morrison, both born in 1955, were arrested in Hawaii. And the American justice accused them this Friday of “identity theft”. In fact, this couple lived for 35 years using the names of deceased babies.
According to court documents, a search of their home found an old photo of the couple dressed in KGB uniforms.
A federal judge estimated this Thursday during a telephone hearing that the sixty-year-old presented a “flight risk” and ordered his continued detention. His wife will appear next week before the magistrate.
Ministry of Defense Contractor
According to the indictment, they studied together in Texas in the 1970s, married there in 1980, and in 1987, for some unknown reason, assumed the identities of Bobby Fort and Julie Montague, babies who died years earlier and were buried in nearby cemeteries.
They remarried in 1988 under these new names. In 1994 he became a Coast Guardsman as Bobby Fort, serving in that capacity for 20 years before accepting a job with a Department of Defense contractor.
Over the years, they obtained many documents under their false identities, including driving licenses and various passports. They were finally spotted in 2018 trying to enroll in the coast guard and military social security system.
Ex-KGB?
The accusation is not related to espionage charges, but a brief presented in the process to oppose his provisional release suggests a complex file.
“Federal agents seized letters ‘addressed to the defendants’ with names other than Bobby, Julie, Walter or Gwynn,” suggesting they were using multiple aliases, and found photos of them wearing KGB uniforms, writes US Attorney Clare Connors.
A relative of Gwynn Morrison told officers that he had lived in Romania when the country was still in the communist bloc, it adds. As for her husband, as a Pentagon contractor, she had to report all her trips abroad and did not do so during several stays in Canada, the prosecutor continues.
Source: BFM TV
