Samuel Loring Morison (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Samuel Loring Morison (born October 30, 1944) is a former American intelligence professional, who was convicted of espionage and theft of government property in 1985, and pardoned in 2001. He is "the only [American] government official ever convicted for giving classified information to the press. Morison was born in London, England where his father was stationed during World War II. His paternal grandfather, Samuel Eliot Morison, was a distinguished naval historian, a Rear Admiral in the Naval Reserve and Harvard University professor. Morison spent much of his younger years in New York and Maine. He attended Tabor Academy, a college preparatory school in Massachusetts and graduated from the University of Louisville in 1967.