Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci arrived in Saudi Arabia on the last stop of a tour to assess the U.S. naval presence in the gulf region...
...focused the West's attention on the scope of the leakage problem. The scandal broke last March, after the U.S. learned that a subsidiary of the Japanese electronics giant had shipped to the U.S.S.R. advanced machines that have enabled the Soviets to build submarines quiet enough to escape U.S. naval detection...
...convicted of espionage in August. A military jury found that Lonetree disclosed the names of CIA agents in Moscow after being seduced by a woman working for both the embassy and the KGB. Yet Lonetree vigorously denied having allowed spies into the embassy, and agents of the Naval Investigative Service had no strong evidence to the contrary. Their claims were based on a detailed statement by Corporal Arnold Bracy that he and Lonetree allowed the KGB to enter when the two worked the same guard shifts. Bracy recanted immediately, saying the NIS investigators had coerced him into signing the statement...
...Lonetree is telling the truth, then Bracy's original confession may indeed have been coerced. If so, someone ought to be investigating the investigators. The entire probe will be reviewed by Rear Admiral John Gordon, who only last September was appointed chief of the Naval Security and Investigative Command...
...issue are three air bases, a naval station and other facilities maintained by 12,000 American troops. Of special concern is the Torrejon air base outside Madrid, which houses 72 F-16 fighters assigned to help protect NATO's southern and central flanks. The Spanish want all the F-16s redeployed to some other country. The U.S. has offered to remove one-third of them. Concluded a European diplomat: "The two sides are at a dead...