U.S.SUFFERED 'GREAT LOSS' IN EMBASSY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2012
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• Publication Date: March 29, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
29 Narch 1987
U.S. Suffered
`Great Loss'
In Embassy
Weinberger Orders
Probe of Security
By George C. Wilson
Washington Post Staff Writcr
now in prison, was convicted of sell-
ing some of the nation's most im-
portant secrets, including subma-
rine communications tactics, to the
Soviets through a spy ring that op-
erated for years.
Weinberger said the Defense De-
partment would investigate not only
the two accused Marines and their
actions, "but the whole system" for
providing security at U.S. embas-
sies. The inquiry, he said, would
examine how the 1,300 Marine em-
bassy guards posted around the
world are chosen and trained, "and
the way the Soviets will continually
try to subvert them."
Marine Sgt. Clayton J. Lonetr ,
tree allegedly escorted Soviet spies
through the embassy while Bracy
stood as a lookout.
The Army, Navy, Air Force and
Marine Corps have launched inter-
nal inquiries, Pentagon officials
said, to determine what they might
have lost through the Soviet pen-
etration. One of the first things that
must be done, sources said, is to
determine what secret publications
and sensitive technology Lonetree
and Bracy had access to.
The dams a assessment by the
military services is_exgec a o e.
finished by midweek, sources said.
Thee-specialists a ssume the worst in
this first look, sources said, and
ten make amorereaistil-c m e,
assessment as more is learned
about what Lonetreeic
Soviets did inside the embassy. The
preliminary findin s, sources said,
suggesf _t5 t_ t is est viet in-
telligence breach is not of monu-
mental proportions.
Marine Corps investigators also
have studied the records of all. the
Marines who served with Lonetree
and Bracy, sources said, and found
no evidence that the activity went
beyond the two Marines in custody.
Defense Secretary Caspar _W. 25, and Cpl. Arnold rac , 21, al-
Weinberger Weinberger syesterday that the legedly were mvo ed sexually with
m t said a suffered "a very two Soviet women who worked at
tes gCToss from vie agents root- the embassy. They allegedly facil-
ing roug secret areas of t e itated Soviet espionage there be-
Embassy in Moscow under an ar-
-rangement y permitted by
two Marine rps guar s.
We're very, very istressed,"
Weinberger said in an interview on
the Cable News Network, referring
to what military prosecutors have
described as a secrets-for-sex op-
eration at the embassy. Pentagon
officials said the U.S. military ser-
vices have launched individual in-
vestigations to determine which of
their secret activities may have
been compromised at the embassy
in this latest spy scandal, Defense
Department officials said yesterday.
Several military officials said it is
unlikely that the two accused Ma,
rines had access to all sensitive
parts of the embassy; also, security
clearances are compartmentalized
to make it difficult for persons of
low rank, such as Marine guards, to
learn more than fragments about
secret operations and equipment.
"It's not another Walker case,"
said one source fami far wi e
preliminary assessment. ormer
tween January and March of 1986.
Both men are in Marine custody.
Lonetree and Bracy allowed So-
viets to "peruse" such secret facil-
ities as the room where messages
and encoded and decoded, accord-
ing to military prosecutors. Lone-
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