Re: Clayton Lonetree
Gerald R. Alfred (gerald@vax2.concordia.ca)
Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:47:00 EDT
Lonetree was a Marine (not Soldier) charged with compromising national
security and deriliction of his duties as a sentry at the US Embassy in
Moscow. He brought a woman who turned out to be a Soviet agent to his
barracks and slept with her. Both of these actions contravene Embassy and
Marine Corps regulations and relevent US legislation. All Marines are
quite familiar with the fact that the Soviet Union's most successful
intelligence gathering ploy is to employ female agents to compromise male
personnel in security billets. Lonetree was caught, tried and convicted of
contravening the rules of the Marine Corps and the Embassy. He was stupid,
and he is now paying for his stupidity here in a US prison.
Remember the informal motto of the Marine Corps: "To Err is human, To Forgive
is Divine, Neither is Marine Corps Policy."
Gerald Alfred