MATA HARI'S DUPE HELPED REDS KILL AGENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000403720007-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 15, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/02/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000403720007-2
ARTICLE APPEAKtu
ON PAS
15 January 1987
RE 2N,~Ll
HARI'S
By NILES LATHEM
Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON - In-
telll ence exerts sw-
vlat 4gufm HELPE,D REDS
informants - -After
their covers Were
blown by a ILa M,..+"
accused of trailing es
grets for sex. The Post KILL AGENTS
has learn
They said the Marine seduced him6 officials mine how the KGB agents but not their rea
almost certainly could -,r-
have gotten clues to the the Soviet ~cooperation with
identities of informants spy agency
because he had full ac- during his stint at the
con to the U.S. Em- embassy from Septem-
bassy in Moscow. ber 1984 to March 1986
where he was a guard coincides with numer-
ous arrests and execu-
Marine -? Sgt. Clayton bons of top-level inform.
Lonetree, 25 - turned Tv' it was learned,
over that Information The informants
in-
to the KGB, said the passed along
on n military
sources. and political activities
Ionetree, who once in the Soviet Union.
guarded President Rea- Until Lonetree con-
gas, was lured into
spying for the Soviet
Union female by a agent gHa who
ho
learn the
92me or UM
i e t"$ta"
n~oi etree.of St. Paul,
Minn.. stunned the U.S
intelligence com-
munity when he turned
himself in last month.
He confessed that he
helped his paramour, a
secretary at the em-
bassy, gain access to
documents stored in
embassy safes.
Officials said the docu-
ments contained de-
tailed intelligence re.
Ports supplied by agents.
The reports would con-
tain the cover names of
l
perts Officials suspect that
the Soviets were able to
learn the agents' real
identities from the in-
formation contained in
the reports.
Lonetree is in custody
at the Marine correc-
tional facility in Quan-
tico, Va., awaiting for-
mal espionage charges
that could lead to his
execution.
His family has hired
famed defense attorney
William Kunstler to
represent him before a
military court.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/02/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000403720007-2