ALL MOSCOW MARINES SAID TO FACE POLYGRAPH TEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000403310003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 1, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/09: CIA-RDP90-00965R000403310003-1
ARTICLEAPPEAiM NEW YORK TIMES
ON PAGE ____ _L 1 April 1987
All Moscow Marines Said
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By BILL KELLEI
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MOSCOW, March 31 -The 28 Ma- "The Moscow embassy is the second gers and custodial workers to replace
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rine ere have sbe t t told erthat they ican E will be biggest in the world, and I know how Soviet Government last year.
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asked to take polygraph tests after important it is, but, man, they don't Many of the new employees, who are
their return to the United States, ac- treat us like humans." being by a a California compa-
cording an American close to the con- Diplomats at other Western embas-
ny, Pacific Architects and Engineers,
sies said they had long favored the as.
tangent. are expected to be young and single.
The marines are being recalled in signment of married security person-
the wake of an espionage case in which nel to embassy duty to reduce the risk Russian Would Amend Saying
three former members of the contin- of compromising situations like the one Gent*di I. Gerasimov, the Foreign
ent have now been implicated. The' that the Lonetree into espionage. say Sergeant Ministry spokesman, made light of the
others were reportedly told that any- He anSer? Marine case in discussing it at a brief-
one who declined to submit to the poly- geant Bracy were said to have become, ing today.
graph test would be transferred toy involved with Soviet women on the em-I "We can only smile at what is being
regular Marine duty. `` I bassy staff. said about this story," he said "It is
The State Department, in announc Diplomats said the embassies of very funny. Twenty-eight strong ma-
ing Monday that the entire present con-; Britain, France, Italy and Canada all rines are being brought back from the
Ungent was being replaced, said that) employed security guards who are U.S. Embassy because they allegedly
.none of its present members had been older than the American marines, and are unable to withstand the charms of I
implicated in the espionage case. almost always married. Unmarried blonde spies.
The three former embassy guards men are not eligible to serve in the it is sometimes said that there are '
who figure in the case are Sgt. Clayton Moscow embassies of some govern- Reds 'under' every bed. Perhaps this
J. Lonetree and Cpl. Arnold Bracy, who ments. saying should be amended some-
had been accused of allowing Soviet "Obviously, we want to be sure they whatf
agents access to the embassy, an don't have the need to look around for
Staff Sgt. Robert S. Stufflebeam, wh women here in Moscow," a Western
was arrested today on charges of fail European diplomat said.
ing to report contacts with Soviet The Marine guard service requires
women while he was on duty here. that its members be single so that the
Richard Combs Jr., the charge d'af- Government can save the cost of sup-.
' faires, refused to comment on the pros- porting families overseas, and men can
pect of polygraph testing. be transferred to other posts on short
The marines were reportedly told notice.
that they would be asked what they Arthur A. Hartman, the departing
knew of any illegal activities, including Ambassador, said Monday that he fa-
black market dealings and bringing vored replacing the young, unmarried
women into the Marine compound. I marines with more mature security
The prospect of the tests, announced personnel.
to the marines in a meeting on Monday, However, allowing security guards
was greeted bitterly by the demoral- to bring families would pose another
ized contingent, according to the Amer- problem for the embassy. The Marine
ican who is friendly with the marines. guards live in tiny rooms in the em-
Some marines told friends they bassy compound - the guards refer to
feared the tests would force them to re- them as "closets" - that are designed
port second-hand knowledge about for single residents.
black-market currency operations, and Those who know the marines say
their careers could be damaged for not that many of them are lonely, and thus
reporting this earlier. tempted to ignore warnings against
Several marines have been sent fraternizing with Russians
home in recent months for changing One Western diplomat suggested
dollars illegally. that the United States might be creat-
Since the spy case became public, the ing a entire new pool of vulnerable em-
embassy has reportedly kept a close
watch on the marines, and has begun
enforcing a policy, long treated casual-
ly, that the marines may not go into
town without being accompanied by
another embassy employee.
"With the restrictions imposed now,
I cannot even go to church alone," a
marine said.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/09: CIA-RDP90-00965R000403310003-1