Hawaii couple accused of stealing dead babies' identities may have been KGB spies, prosecutors say

Fox News ^ | 07/28/22 | Michael Lee

[L.A.Justice]

A Hawaii man and his wife were arrested for allegedly stealing the identity of two babies who died in Texas in the 1960s, with prosecutors claiming that the duo may have ties to the Soviet-era KGB.

"I still can’t believe it happened," 91-year-old John Montague, the father of one of the babies who died when she was 6 weeks old in 1968, told the Associated Press. "The odds are like one in a trillion that they found her and used her name. People stoop to do anything nowadays. Let kids rest in peace."

U.S. defense contractor Walter Primrose and his wife, Gwynn Morrison, both now in their 60s, are charged with aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to commit an offense against the U.S. and a false statement in an application for a passport, according to court documents unsealed last week.

[L.A.Justice]

The couple assumed the names of Bobby Edward Fort and Julie Lyn Montague, two Texas babies who died when they were under a year old. Prosecutors allege that Primrose used Fort's identity to fraudulently enlist in the U.S. Coast Guard in 1994, eventually obtaining a secret security clearance and serving for more than two decades before landing a job as a defense contractor after his retirement in 2016.

Their lawyer stated that they put on KGB uniforms as a joke...

There was a FX series...THE AMERICANS...I have never watched it...But, maybe some FR member watched it?

[Fai Mao]

The odds are not 1 in a million if you are looking for children who die.

[SeafoodGumbo]

“The Americans” is a great series!

[Steve_Seattle]

"may have been KGB spies"

Well, that settles it.

[frank ballenger]

If only Commander Steve McGarrett were around to see this.

Screenwriters would have submitted this scenario and their boss would have tossed it as implausible. “Even the American network viewers won’t buy it.”

[CivilWarBrewing]

Interesting given that the document number on Obama’s Hawaiian birth certificate was ORIGINALLY ISSUED to a baby girl who died shortly after birth.. Her name was VIRGINIA SUNAHARA.

[ought-six]

“There was a FX series...THE AMERICANS...I have never watched it...But, maybe some FR member watched it?”

I saw that. I liked it. Good characters, good plots.

[spacejunkie2001]

friends with odumbo’s grandma no doubt.

[TheEditor]

This technique is called the “baby trip”. Was supposed to have been closed decades ago. Really depends on the office where the records are kept.

[Yaelle]

Proud of you guys. Only up to post 6 and you got it.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Why are we not executing spies.

[Secret Agent Man]

It was a good series overall.

[Verginius Rufus]

Maybe they got the idea from watching “The Day of the Jackal.” If I remember correctly (it has been a very long time since I saw the movie), a man goes into a cemetery, finds a grave of a child who died as an infant, then requests that child’s birth certificate.

[Gaffer]

If Walter and Gwynn were just illegals they’d (LE) have just let it go...

Re:
“There was a FX series...THE AMERICANS...I have never watched it...But, maybe some FR member watched it?”

I started watching it yesterday on Hulu. Frankly, given today’s FBI, I’m kinda rooting for the protagonists..... :0)

The series thus far shows the FBI as the corrupt, lying criminals they really are.....

[El Cid]

Obama’s grandparents?

[Sarcazmo]

What is it with commies and stupid big hats?

[metmom]

Yeah, it’s always the Russkies, isn’t it?

[Sarcazmo]

Because we might need to trade them for a homo sometime?

[Political Junkie Too]

Virginia Sunahara?

-PJ

[Dogbert41]

When I clicked on this thread I was looking for a link to Obama.