Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest jailing, of Sergeant John Weirick, 26, spread the contamination to the U.S. consulate in Leningrad, where Weirick, too, allegedly permitted KGB agents to enter at the urging of a Soviet woman. That prompted the State Department to cut off all electronic communications with the consulate and order the recall of the six-man Marine contingent in Leningrad, as it had earlier recalled the 28-man detail at the Moscow embassy. Ominously, Weirick's alleged collaboration with the KGB occurred in 1982, four years earlier than the Moscow treachery, indicating a long-standing security breach...
Shultz also planned a fourth, previously unscheduled meeting with Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. He met for more than seven hours Monday with Shevardnadze, and a U.S. official said alleged KGB bugging of the U.S. Embassy was the first item of discussion...
...diplomat later said it would be "the dumbest thing in the world" to assume the walled compound was free of KGB bugs...
Stories about the Marines' behavior are rife among former Soviet embassy employees, although these workers, who often report to the KGB, have reasons to exaggerate. "They were wild," a Soviet woman translator said of the Marines. "They chased all the skirts, Russian or otherwise. If we were flowers, they were bees." A Soviet secretary who had booked dinners for embassy personnel said that many Moscow restaurants would not accept the Marines "because they got drunk and got into fights with other customers...
...Stufflebeam, 24, who was the second-ranking Marine at the embassy when the two suspects were in Moscow, from July 1985 until March 1986, was charged by the Navy with failing to report his regular contacts with Soviet women. At least one of these women, claimed a source, "was KGB." He has not, however, been accused of spying...