Complex sentence: In 2004 reporter Morlin received a tip from a still unidentified source that the real identity of the persona on the gay.com website named "Cobra82" was in fact mayor West.
Split into simpler sentences: In 2004 reporter Morlin received a tip about West from a source that has never been publicly identified. The source claimed that the real identity of the persona on the gay.com website named "Cobra82" was in fact mayor West.