SPYING CASTS SHADOW OVER TALKS - SHULTZ

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• Document Release Date: November 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: April 9, 1987
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sures at the current U.S. Embassy
and at the $191 million embassy
building now under construction
have heightened tensions further.
Two House members back from a
fact m tng trip to Moscow - Reps.
9 April 1987
- By Richard Beeston and Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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Spying casts
shadow over
talks ShU1tZ'
Secretary of State George S~ hu_~ ltz_,~
yesterday said he was "damnlt
ed up-
set" by Soviet penetration of the U.S.
Embassy in Moscow - a scandal he
predicted will cast "a heavy shadow"
over his meetings there with Soviet
leaders.
Mr. Shultz' comments came as the
Pentagon announced that a fourth
Marine once assigned to guard U.S.
offices in the Soviet Union had been
arrested in a growing sex-and-spy
affair.
"We're damned upset about it:' a
grim Mr. Shultz said. "We're upset at
them [the Soviets] and we're also up-
set at ourselves. And we intend to do
everything to correct our problems."
The secretary, who is scheduled to
leave this weekend for meetings with
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard
Shevardnadze, denied Kremlin
charges that the scandal was a
"dirty fabrication" intended to "poi-
son the atmosphere in which Soviet-
American talks are to be held:'
"We didn't break into their em-
bassy. They broke into ours:' Mr.
Shultz said. "They invaded our sov-
ereign territory.
"They can't expect to continue to
incessantly, massively work to cre-
ate a hostile environment for our
people overseas without a cost to
themselves in their relations to us."
U.S.-Soviet relations have been se-
verely strained since the arrest last
December of a Marine guard as-
signed to protect the U.S. Embassy
in Moscow.
The Marine, Sgt. Clayton J. Lone-
tree, has been charged with allowing
Soviet agents to enter secured areas
of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and
with unauthorized contacts with So-
viets.
The subsequent arrest of three
other Marines and disclosuresof in,,
tense Soviet eavesdropping Met(-
WASHINGTON TIMES
and Dan Mica, Florida Democrat -
said the embassy under con
struction was danserously vulner
able to Soviet espionag. At least $10
million and five years would be
needed to repair the damage already
incurred, the lawmakers said.
President Reagan on 1I esday said
the United States will not occupy the
building - nor will the Soviets be
allowed to move into their new em-
bassy in Northwest Washington -
until he is assured that the U.S. fa-
cility in Moscow is secure.
Despite the squabble, Mr. Shultz
dismissed suggestions that he can-
cel his Moscow trip, saying Mr. Rea-
gan rejects "the view of some that if
anything goes wrong, you just junk
the whole thing."
Mr. Shultz said he had a "full
plate" of issues to discuss with the
Soviets, including arms control,
Afghanistan, human rights and the
embassy.
The secretary also said he plans
to celebrate Passover with Jewish
dissidents at the U.S. Embassy in
Moscow on Monday to emphasise
human-rights issues.
Among those reportedly invited to
this year's Passover seder are Vladi-
mir Slepak, who has been denied
emigration rights and whose son
Alexander is staging a hunger strike
in front of the U.S. Capitol.
Before departing for Moscow, Mr.
Shultz is due to meet today with Brit-
ish Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey
Howe, who accompanied Prime Min-
ister Margaret Thatcher on her re-
cent visit to Moscow to meet Soviet
General Secretary Mikhail Gorba-
chev.
Mr. Shultz, in his press conference
yesterday, said he had been assured
that there would be "secure commu-
nications" for his Moscow visit, in-
cluding conference rooms protected
against Soviet listening devices.
An administration official who de-
clined to be named said security of-
ficials plan to send a "portable bub-
ble" to Moscow as a secure
communications room for the Shultz
delegation.
The bubble, constructed out of
high-technology materials that are
impervious to Soviet radio and mi-
crowave interceptors, can hold up to
16 persons, the official said.
The idea of a secure recreational
vehicle for Mr. Shultz is not a likely
option, nor is the idea of holding
meetings aboard a U.S. Air Force
plane stationed at the Moscow air-
port, a 50-minute drive from the em-
bassy, the official said.
Asked why he appeared surprised
and upset by the bugging of the Mos-
cow embassy when Soviet intelli-
gence practices were well known,
Mr. Shultz replied that "the reality of
it is a shock," which he said "dis-
tresses us all."
On the security aspects of the
embassy-bugging affair, Mr. Shultz
said there was a clear chain of com-
mand.
"The person in charge is the am-
bassador," said Mr. Shultz, a former
Marine. "The ambassador reports to
me. So I am responsible."
Senate Minority Leader Robert
Dole yesterday urged Mr. Shultz to
tell Soviet leaders: "Enough of this
nonsense."
If the Soviets "want any kind of
productive relations:' said Mr. Dole,
who offered a bill that would permit
the death penalty for espionage,
"then they're going to have to play by
some basic rules. And that better be
the message Secretary Shultz car-
ries with him"
The Marine whose arrest was an-
nounced yesterday was identified by
the Pentagon as Sgt. John Joseph
Weirick, 26, of Eureka, Calif.
He had been stationed at the U.S.
consulate in Leningrad six years
ago, the Pentagon said.
Informed sources said he was se-
duced into spying for the Kremlin by
a female Soviet agent operating as
part of a KGB intelligence service
operation known as a "honey trap"
"It's the oldest ploy in the book in
the second oldest profession:" said
one source.
A Pentagon source said Sgt.
Weirick was "entrapped" by a fe-
male Soviet agent and is believed to
have been co-opted with money or
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blackmailed into spying by the Sovi-
ets. He may have allowed Soviet
agents inside the consulate, the
source said.
Capt. Craig Fisher, a Marine
Corps spokesman, said the 1981 case
of Sgt. Weirick was not connected to
the espionage case involving Sgt.
Lonetree, who was arrested in De-
cember, and Cpl. Arnold Bracy, ar-
rested last month.
Officials have said Sgt. Lonetree
and Cpl. Bracy were seduced by So-
viet women employed by the em-
bassy and collaborated with them in
a spy scheme.
Also yesterday, the Pentagon an-
nounced that Marine Staff Sgt. Rob-
ert Stufflebeam, arrested last month
in California, has been charged with
three counts of unauthorized con-
tacts with a Soviet woman while as-
signed to the U.S. Embassy in Mos-
cow in 1985.
Sources said the Weirick arrest
indicates the scope of the Marine
security guard scandal has ex-
panded beyond the Moscow em-
bassy, and that other cases are likely
to surface as part of the investiga-
tion.
Capt. Fisher, without elaborating,
acknowledged that the methods
used by the Soviets in compromising
Sgt. Weirick were similar to the So-
viet operation used to lure Sgt.
Lonetree and Cpl. Bracy into allow-
ing Soviet agents inside the Moscow
embassy.
Capt. Fisher said Sgt. Weirick was
being held "on suspicion of espi-
onage and related activities, such as
failing to report contacts with Soviet
citizens, including women"
Sgt. Weirick was arrested Tues-
day at the Marine Corps Air Station
at Tustin, Calif., and is currently con-
fined to the brig at Camp Pendleton,
Calif., Pentagon officials said. He is
expected to be transferred this week
to the Marine base at Quantico, Va.,
where three other Marines have
been implicated in the affair, offi-
cials said.
"It surfaced as a result of the on-
going investigation of Marine secu-
rity guards;' Capt. Fisher said.
Capt. Fisher said Sgt. Weirick was
married, although it could not be de-
termined if he was married during
his tour of duty in the Soviet Union
beginning Oct. 22, 1981, in Moscow
and from Nov. 18, 1981, to Dec. 2,
1982, in Leningrad.
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