SOVIETS' EMBASSY SPYING MASSIVE, WEINBERGER SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000504530007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 17, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
17 April 1987
tree M the alleged espionage.
soviets' Emba%y Spying
Massive, Weinberger Says
Intrusion Compared to 79 7Ahran 7hkeover
f By Molly Moore and Bill McAllister revelations of espionage involving
the Soviets of "ruthless ... behav-
Defense Secretary Caspar W ior."
-1~ Welnber_ger.said vests av is o- in h;a annnnh wo;.,h re o. ..A-
4a a security guard, said they
+iieeded more time to examine new
evidence in the case.
. The hearing officer also agreed
-to delay until next Thursday the
rticle 32 hearing for Cpl. Arnold
t racy, 21, accused of working with
oecow embassy where he worked
allowing Soviet agents into the
vtet espionage operations in the
U.S. Embassy in Moscow are mas-
sive, comparing the intrusions to
the Iranian seizure of the American
Embassy in Tehran in 1979.
"What is especially revealing
about this Soviet intrusion into our
embassy ... is its massive nature Na;
einberger said at the annual vy
League conference here. "It seems
to me to be quite comparable to
Iran's actions in seizing our embas-
sy in Tehran."
As Weinberger delivered his con-
demnation of Soviet espionage tac?
tics, a military judicial officer at
Quantico Marine Base granted de-
lays in the hearings of two Marine
security guards accused of espio-
nage in connection with the expand-
ing investigation of security
breaches at U.S. embassies. The
hearings, called Article 32 hear-
ings, are designed to determine
whether the two guards should be
court-martialed.
The hearing officer accepted a
request from Sgt. Clayton J. Lone-
tree's attorneys to recess the ev-
identiary hearing in his case after
two days of testimony until May 11.
The attorneys for Lonetree, who is
Accused of espionage for allegedly
eaterday but was postponed after.
; 3ttorneys said they needed more
:Mane to orient a newly appointed
.,military defense attorney for Bracy,
according . to a Marine Corps
3,pokesman:
Weinberger, in his most exten-
sive public comments on the, pew
stepped any direct comments on
the ongoing Marine investigation,
and he later declined to comment
on the security losses the United
States may have suffered al a result
The defense
secretary accused
the Soviets of
"ruthless ...
behavior."
of the alleged cooperation of U.S.
embassy guards with Soviet spies..
Maj. Robert Nourie, the officer
conducting the Article 32 hearing
to determine whether the military
has enough evidence'to prosecute
Lonetree on two espionage and 22
other charges, agreed to delay the
proceedings only after sternly
warning attorneys that they should
not publicly discuss any aspect of
the case, according to William M.
Kunstler, one of Lonetree's civilian
attorneys.
"The secretary of defense, the
president and everybody else has
spouted off about Sgt. Lonetree and
others and now they want to keep
us from responding," Kunstler com-
plained to 'reporters after eight
hours of closed testimony in a base-
ment vault at Quantico.
Lonetree's attorneys said- they.
requested the delay because the
Naval Investigative Service, which,
is conducting the military espionage
investigation, gave them at mid.
night Wednesday the statements of
additional Marine personnel who
are being recalled to Quantico to,
produce evidence in the widening
investigation of the 1,300-Marine
security force.
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