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...with fraternizing with Soviet women. Another Leatherneck suspected of spying has been recalled from his station in Brazil, where he was living with a Russian woman he met during a tour of duty at the Moscow embassy; he is currently being held at the Marine base in Quantico, Va. As a result of such discoveries, the State Department has replaced five possibly tainted communications centers: in Moscow, Leningrad, Brasilia and two in Vienna, where the embassy was compromised twice by different Marine guards. The new units cost $5 million each...
...Quantico, Va., a number of Marines are enduring the rigors of a very different course that seems closer to Miss Manners than the halls of Montezuma: training to be diplomatic guards at a mock-up of an embassy called Marshall Hall. Social etiquette is the topic as a gunnery sergeant combines a lecture with a slide show. A photograph of a diplomatic reception is projected. "What kind of dress do we say they're wearing there?" asks the sergeant. "That's right. That's black tie." Laughter greets the next slide, showing a Marine presenting flowers to a young woman...
...exchanges in U.S. history. Not only had the Marine's partner been charged with helping him let Soviet agents prowl the embassy's most sensitive areas but last week a third Marine sentinel was accused of similar offenses. A fourth Marine, stationed at the Brasilia embassy, was taken to Quantico, Va., for grilling about espionage. Several others were recalled from Vienna. More accusations of spying were expected to be filed this week in the still unfolding saga...
...espionage charges. The first was Sergeant Clayton Lonetree, 25, Bracy's accomplice at the Moscow embassy, who was apprehended three months ago. Lonetree is charged with 24 felonies involving security breaches, including two counts of espionage, which carry a possible death penalty. Bracy is being held in a Quantico, Va., brig until the accusations against him are clarified...
...Sergeant Clayton Lonetree, 25, was so highly regarded at his job as security guard at the U.S. embassy in Moscow that in November 1985 he was detached for special duty at the Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Geneva. Last week Lonetree sat in a brig at the Marine base at Quantico, Va., suspected by his superiors of helping the Soviet KGB filch classified U.S. documents from diplomatic offices in Moscow and Vienna...