But current host David Gregory omits to tell today's viewers that Bentley was also a notorious drunk who became all but impossible for the FBI to control after her confession, and who also had a predilection for sleeping with her Soviet "controllers." In fact, Bentley only turned herself in after the death of her lover/controller in 1943, a Russian whose real name was Jacob Golosenko. (There's a great book about her called Clever Girl.
) David Gregory also refers to her "defection" to the United States in this piece, implying that, like those in the current spy ring, she was a Russian national. She wasn't. Actually, she was just a plain-looking, middle-aged alcoholic from New York City who was once an over-enthusiastic communist looking for love.
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