EMBASSY GUARDS' USE OF PROSTITUTES OKD, LAWYER SAYS

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• Publication Date: April 6, 1987
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Embassy Guards'
Use of Prostitutes,
OKd, Lawyer Says
T By RUDY ABRAMSON,
Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON-Marines as-
signed to guard the U.S. Embassy
in Moscow were encouraged to
have promiscuous liaisons and
were told in their official orienta-
tion "where the young ladies can
be found, and that it's all right to go
use prostitutes," the lawyer for
Marine Sgt. Clayton Lonetre! said
Sunday.
The allegation, leveled ar the
investigation of U.S. secta'!t-
ures in Moscow widened,. w im-
mediately denied by Just-retired
U.S. Ambassador Arthur A. Hart-
man, but a spokesman for the
Marine Corps said it would, never-
theless, be investigated along with
every other aspect of the scandal.
Michael Stuhff, the attorney 'for
Lonetree, made his charge during
an interview on the CBS program,
"Face the Nation."
"It wasn't uncommon at all for
the Marines to go out to some of the
hotels, where the local women
were known to hang out," he said.
"And as a result of that, they were
encouraged to relieve their ten-
sions, we might say, in rather
promiscuous types of liai-
sons...."
When asked what he meant by
"encouraged," he added: "The
commanding NCO [noncommis-
sioned officer] at Moscow, when
these young men were snapped in
... given their initial orientation
to the duty station, were told where
the young ladies can be found, and
that it's all right to use prostitutes."
Lonetree, 25, is in a Marine Corps
brig accused, along with Sgt. Ar-
nold Bracy, of allowing Soviet
operatives the run of the embassy
they were guarding, including ac-
cess to spaces where top-secret
communications are handled.
His participation in the perhaps
devastating penetration of U.S. se-
curity followed a dalliance with a
young Soviet woman named Vi-
oletta Seina, who worked as a
translator at the embassy_-_
Lawyer Denies Charges
Although investigators are still
assessing the damage and assuming
the worst, Stuhff said Sunday that
the charges that Lonetree led KGB
agents around the embassy open-
ing doors for them have "absolute-
ly no basis whatsoever."
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
6 April 1987
He acknowledged that the ser-
geant did have a sexual liaison with
Seina, but he said Lonetree still
believes that his lover was herself
used by the KGB, "that she cer-
tainly didn't set out to do this."
"I certainly admire his faith in
that young lady," the lawyer said,
adding: "I'm not quite sure that I
share it."
Hartman, who just retired after
five years as the American ambas-
sador in Moscow, categorically de-
nied Stuhff's assertion that Marines
were encouraged in sexual rela-
tionships with women in Moscow.
"That is not true that these
people were encouraged to have
this kind of affair," he said. "It is
not true that they were briefed in
this way."
Warned of Dangers
To the contrary, he said that
Marine guards were warned of
such dangers when they arrived in
the Soviet Union, and that thereaf-
ter they attended weekly sessions
in which they were told "who they
could see, and who they couldn't
see, and under what circumstanc-
es."
Investigation of U.S. security
problems in Moscow will, extend
beyond the Marines this week
when Rep. Daniel A. Mica (D-
Fla.), chairman of a House Foreign
Affairs subcommittee that oversees
embassy security, inspects the con-
troversial new $190-million em-
bassy building in Moscow.
Mica said Sunday that 10 more
U.S. missions are under investiga-
tion by State Department and mili-
tary officials, the Washington Post
reported. Mica did not identify the
embassies.
Called Unusable
The Moscow structure has been
found to be so seeded with listening
devices during the course of con-
struction that some experts doubt
that it can ever be made secure
from Soviet eavesdropping.
Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.),
the former vice chairman of the
Senate Intelligence Committee, has
maintained for nearly two years
that the building will be unusable.
In the CBS interview Sunday,
Leahy renewed his reservations. In
its management of the construction
project, the United States has, in
effect, used the KGB as the general
contractor, Leahy said. "When you
come right down to the bottom
line," he said, "that's what it is."
Mounting concern over the thor-
ough bugging of the structure has
led to the creation of a special
commission of intelligence experts
to determine if the building can be
used, and if so, what would be
required to make it secure. Former
Defense Secretary James R. Schle-
singer, who is head of that investi-
gation, is expected to visit the
Moscow construction site next
month.
Soviets' New Embassy
President Reagan, arriving in
Ottowa for a meeting with Canadi-
an Prime Minister Brian Mulroney,
told reporters Sunday that "I know
steps are being taken to secure the
embassy. There is a technology to
determine whether the facility has
been bugged." But if the new
embassy cannot be made secure,
"we obviously wouldn't move in,"
he said.
Meanwhile, the Soviet Union is
constructing its own new embassy
on a hill in northwest Washington
to replace its present quarters just a
few blocks north of the White
House.
Besides the problem of the new
American Embassy's being bugged
from the foundation up, Leahy said
Sunday that the United States had
failed to get reciprocity for its
building site.
"Our embassy over there," he
said, "is in a swamp surrounded by
buildings controlled by the KGB.
Their embassy is sitting up on Mt.
Alto here in Washington, with
antennas that can go into the
Pentagon, the White House, the
Treasury, the CIA, everything
else."
Intelligence Minion
Until the problems are resolved
concerning the new U.S. Embassy
in Moscow, Leahy said, the Soviet
Union should not be permitted to
move into its new facility here.
Moreover, he endorsed a proposal
made two years ago by Sen. Law-
ton Chiles (D-Fla.) that the United
States demand damage payment
from the Soviets for the bugging of
the new Moscow embassy.
Leahy blamed both the Marine
sex and spying scandal and the
embarrassing situation with the
new embassy on a failure of the
State Department to fully recog-
nize that the United States has an
intelligence mission as well as a
diplomatic mission in Moscow.
"There are people within the
State Department who just do not
understand that we have a dual
mission in the Soviet Union," he
said. "One is a diplomatic mission,
but it releases no secrets (for me] to
say that we also have an intelli-
gence mission, in the same way the
Soviet Union does here in Wash-
ington."
On the latter score, he said: "We
certainly, apparently, don't do it
anywhere near as well as they do."
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