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When Assistant Army Attaché James Holbrook, 41, left Moscow one day last January for a routine reconnaissance trip deep into the western Ukraine, he had no intention of partying along the way-particularly not at a bacchanal funded (and photographed) by the Soviet secret police. But just hours after arriving in the small city of Rovno (pop. 167,000), sources say, Holbrook's traveling companion-a fellow U.S. Army attaché-was drugged, and Holbrook himself obliged to fend off an incipient blackmail scheme. The uncompromised pah- returned to Moscow immediately. In keeping with U.S. procedure in such...
Most of the details of Holbrook's Ukrainian misadventure-and exactly how far the entrapment attempt progressed before Holbrook grew suspicious and fled the party scene-remain top secret. (The Soviets claim he was caught with a woman in his Rovno hotel room.) Nor is there any firm consensus about Soviet motives In attempting to compromise Holbrook, or pretending to attempt to compromise him. The leading theory among U.S. officials is that the Soviets considered Holbrook an especially acute pest: he speaks perfect Russian and had made many friends among the Soviet military. The Soviets regard the dozen...
Intriguingly enough, just weeks before the Rovno incident, Holbrook was one of four Army officers recommended for a job as Vice President George Bush's aide-de camp. Was Holbrook the target of a long-shot plot to slip a Soviet "mole" into the White House? An attractive speculation, but doubtful. Says a State Department ex pert: "The KGB can be much slyer than this when it is really recruiting...
...Holbrook, now reassigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, calls the affair "an obvious no-comment situation." But if the Soviets merely wanted to neutralize an effective military attaché, then their attempt, however clumsy, was a complete success...
...going too far" and can be "disruptive." He talks of finding "middle ground" alternatives, such as redrawing boundaries to merge city and suburban school districts so that the schools are no longer lopsidedly black or white. Bell has also supported the establishment of much disputed bilingual education programs. Notes Holbrook: "Bell is an innovator and a conciliator who has been able to draw a consensus from controversial issues...