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she had learned at the Cordon Bleu school in her tiny kitchen, where the stovetop was back-breakingly low.

    Jane Foster returned to painting after the war, and Paul envied her small studio in Paris, where she sometimes produced a picture a day.

    Jane’s woodcut of the U.S. Board of Passport Appeals in Washington, D.C., which in March 1955 turned down her passport application on the grounds that she “followed the Communist party line.”

    Jane’s husband, George Zlatovski, peeking through the half-open door at the mob of reporters outside their Paris apartment the morning after they were indicted as Russian spies.

    Jane had expensive tastes in everything from clothes to restaurants and always lived beyond her means.

    The beautiful Martha Dodd and her wealthy husband, Alfred Stern, threw fabulous parties in their penthouse apartment in the Majestic that attracted such notable leftists as Lillian Hellman, Paul Robeson, Margaret Bourke-White, and Clifford Odets.

    The mysterious Boris Morros, a Russian-born Hollywood producer, posing here with Ginger Rogers, was secretly working as a double agent and spent twelve years helping the FBI corral Soviet spies.

    Jack Soble, in handcuffs, and his wife, Myra, being led by a federal agent, pled guilty to “receiving and obtaining” U.S. defense secrets and testified that Jane and George were members of their Soviet spy ring in return for a more lenient sentence.

    Jane’s self-portrait, drawn after her first breakdown in 1955, while she was in Cornell University Hospital in New York hiding from “the men in gabardine coats.”

    Betty never believed Jane was disloyal but had her doubts about George, who she visited in Paris in the early 1980s and again found to be “a strange man.”

    After they left the Foreign Service in 1961, Julia and Paul settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they lived happily for the next thirty-two years, but they never forgot the friends who were not lucky enough to escape the McCarthy era unscathed, and they remained passionate Democrats.