3RD MARINE ARRESTED IN EMBASSY SPY PROBE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 12, 2012
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: April 1, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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3rd Marini
arrested
in embassy
spy probe
, By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Military authorities have arrested
a third U.S. Marine security guard
and charged another already in cus-
tody with spying, in an expanding
investigation into the sex and espi-
onage case at the U.S. Embassy in
Moscow.
Pentagon officials yesterday an-
nounced that Staff Sgt. Robert Stan-
ley Stufflebeam, 24, of Bloomington,
Ill., was arrested by the Marine
Corps Sunday for failing to report
contacts with Soviet women while
stationed at the Moscow embassy.
The Pentagon also announced
that the Marine Corps has charged
Cpl. Arnold Bracy, another former
Moscow embassy guard, with espi-
onage for collaborating with Marine
Sgt. Clayton J. Lonetree in allowing
Soviet agents to enter the Moscow
embassy last year "on numerous and
diverse occasions."
Both Sgt. Lonetree and Cpl. Bracy
were seduced into spying by female
Soviet employees working at the U.S.
Embassy in Moscow, according to
administration officials. Sgt. Stuf-
flebeam, who served as an assistant
commander of the Marine detach-
ment at the embassy, has not been
charged formally.
Maj. Anthony Rothfork, a Marine
Corps spokesman, said the latest ar-
rest was the result of an ongoing
Naval Investigative Service probe of
"all of the alleged espionage activi-
ties at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow
during a period when all three
served concurrently."
A senior State Department offi-
cial described the Moscow spy affair
as the most serious security lapse in
the department's history and said
other Marines may be involved in
the espionage penetrations of the
U.S. Embassy.
"At this point, prudence requires
that we assume the worst: There
may well have been others" involved
in spying, said Robert E. Lamb, chief
of diplomatic security at the State
Department.
"We're looking at that very thor-
oughly, and if there are others, we'll
know it soon"
WASHINGTON TIMES
1 April 1987
During an interview in his State
Department office, Mr. Lamb said
the Soviet KGB intelligence service
last year made "numerous" attempts
to sexually subvert Marines and U.S.
Embassy personnel in Moscow but
failed until recently to gain access to
secret areas of the building.
"This is the first time;" Mr. Lamb
said. "I can't think of a single (pre-
vious I instance where there's been a
penetration inside the embassy by a
hostile intelligence service."
Mr. Lamb also said the State De-
partment is close to completing an
investigation into allegations that
Marines stationed at the U.S. Em-
bassy in Vienna, Austria, may have
been involved in affairs with com-
munist bloc nationals.
"We are looking at these charges
as they relate to Vienna," he said. He
declined to elaborate.
Mr. Lamb said that while policies
on fraternization have not been
"flaunted" in Moscow, the State De-
partment is reviewing cases of Ma-
rines who were disciplined for vio-
lating strict rules against socializing
with Soviet nationals.
"We're [also] looking at cases of
fraternization that for one reason or
another were not reported or were
not investigated," he said.
Mr. Lamb said officials are ex-
ploring the old cases to see if "there
were indications that these frater-
nizations were going on, and some-
body knew about it but took it too
lightly."
Mr. Lamb said U.S. officials inves-
tigating the embassy affair so far
had concluded that, "by all accounts,
it's a seriously damaging incident."
Recent events in Moscow have
alerted the State Department and its
Foreign Service to the need for
greater vigilance against Soviet spy-
ing, he said.
"The Soviet intelligence threat is
real. It's systematic. It's being di-
rected against us aggressively in
this country, in the Soviet Union and
in other countries," he said. "In some
ways we in the federal government
have been naive and slow to recog-
nize it.
As a result of damage from the
Moscow security breach, all classi-
fied electronic communications
from the embassy have been halted
and diplomatic messages are being
sent by courier, Mr. Lamb said. The
entire security system at the em-
bassy is being revamped, he noted.
At the Pentagon, chief spokesman
Robert Sims said Sgt. Stufflebeam
was arrested at the Marine base at
Camp Pendleton, Calif., although he
has not been charged with espi-
onage. Sgt. Stufflebeam allegedly
made false statements about con-
tacts with Soviet nationals "during
his exit debriefing, indicating that
no such contacts had occurred;" Mr.
Sims told reporters.
"Specifically, he is suspected of
having associations with Soviet
women on several occasions," Mr.
Sims said. "He is suspected of com-
mitting the offenses while stationed
as a Marine security guard at the
Moscow embassy."
Sgt. Lonetree and Cpl. Bracy
served as embassy guards in Mos-
cow for some eight months in 1985
and 1986. Sgt. Stufflebeam was sta-
tioned at the embassy from May 10,
1985, until May 24, 1986, the Marine
Corps said.
Mr. Sims said eight formal
charges have been lodged against
Cpl. Bracy, including a single espi-
onage count, for acting as a lookout
for Sgt. Lonetree during unauthor-
ized embassy intrusions by Soviets
agents.
A list of charges released by the
Pentagon stated that Cpl. Bracy con-
tacted the same Soviet agent named
in the Lonetree case, Alexei G. "Un-
cle Sasha" Yefimov, who administra-
tion sources identified as the KGB
contact in the operation.
Cpl. Bracy was charged with fail-
ing to report telephone and personal
contacts with Galina Nikolaevna
Golotina and Mr. Yefimov between
June and August 1986.
Those dates indicate that Cpl.
Bracy continued to meet with the
Soviets after Sgt. Lonetree had left
Moscow for an assignment in Vienna
in March 1986.
Sgt. Lonetree last week was
accused of escorting Soviet agents
inside the embassy. He allegedly
permitted the agents to enter se-
cured areas, such as the communi-
cations center, defense attache's of-
fice and other intelligence sections.
A total of 24 charges have been
lodged against him, including two
espionage counts.
U.S. intelligence officials said the
case represents one of the worst
losses in U.S. history since a wide
range of information was compro-
mised.
Mr. Lamb said the State Depart-
ment was moving quickly "to restore
security" at the Moscow embassy
and to prevent damage.
Meanwhile, the State Department
announced that William Brown, U.S.
ambassador to Thailand, would lead
an investigation into Moscow secu-
rity procedures.
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