102 • COHEN, MORRIS AND LONA
After World War II Cohen was appointed a CMG and held the sen-
ior posts of director of personnel; controller, Eastern Europe; and di-
rector of production, before retiring in 1953 with a CB to become
European adviser to United Steel Companies, and in 1967, chairman
of the Franco-British Society. He died in 1984, survived by his wife
Mary Joseph, whom he had married in 1932, and his son and
daughter.COHEN, MORRIS AND LONA.Morris Cohen and Lona Petka were
married in July 1941 and operated as Soviet couriers. Both born in
the United States, they had met soon after Morris returned from the
Spanish Civil War, where he had been wounded while fighting with
the Abraham Lincoln Battalion and had been recruited as a Soviet
agent with the code namevolunteer. When Morris was called up
for military service with the U.S. Army in Europe, Lona was code-
namedlesleyand became an enthusiastic courier, traveling to Los
Alamos, New Mexico, to collect documents from atomic physicist
Theodore Hall.
The Cohens fled their home in New York when Julius Rosenberg
was arrested in 1952 and subsequently moved to England, where they
operated as illegals using the aliases of Peter and Helen Kroger. They
were arrested in January 1963 and convicted of offenses under the
Official Secrets Actbut released in 1969 in a spy swap. In their re-
tirement, they lived in Moscow, where Lona died in 1993 and Morris
died two years later.
COLE, HAROLD.A deserter from the Royal Engineers at the time of
the evacuation from Dunkirk, Sergeant Harold Cole collaborated
with theAbwehrand posed in occupied France as a British officer
and later as an American. Cole’s task was to infiltrate Allied escape
lines, and he was responsible for betraying scores ofre ́sistantsto the
enemy. Wanted by each of the Allies, he was captured in Saulgau,
Germany, in June 1945, in the plausible guise of a British intelli-
gence liaison officer, ‘‘Captain Mason of the U.S. Counterintelli-
gence Corps,’’ but escaped in November 1945 when a dispute arose
over jurisdiction. Finally betrayed in Paris in January 1946 by a
Frenchman, he was shot while resisting arrest.