Md. man charged with stealing Navy records

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Md. man charged with stealing Navy records
By JESSICA GRESKO
Associated Press
Jun 10, 6:51 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Maryland man who in the 1980s was convicted of espionage and later pardoned for leaking spy satellite photos to a British magazine has been charged with stealing government records related to a famous Naval historian who was his grandfather.

Samuel Loring Morison, of Crofton, was arrested Tuesday but released pending trial. Prosecutors allege Morison, 69, stole government records tied to his grandfather, Rear Adm. Samuel Eliot Morison, from a Navy archive in Washington.

The elder Morison wrote a seminal 15-volume history of naval operations during World War II. A Harvard professor, he was also a two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in the biography category. He died in 1976.

Prosecutors say the younger Morison took the files belonging to the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington where he had been a part-time researcher. Prosecutors say approximately 34 boxes of government records were found in his home and that other records he took were being sold on eBay.