Word: nis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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, and he was never prosecuted...
...accused embassy guards sketch that pattern, or was it provided by aggressive, overzealous agents of the Naval Investigative Service? According to military attorneys for Lonetree and Bracy, the classified report of the formal investigation reveals that Lonetree's NIS interrogators urged him to "lie to us, Clayton," hoping that he would implicate others...
...novels who had already been transferred from Moscow to Vienna, had voluntarily admitted to having had liaisons with a Soviet woman and providing relatively low-level documents from the Vienna embassy -- but not the Moscow embassy -- to a KGB agent nicknamed "Uncle Sasha." Only under persistent and prolonged NIS questioning did Lonetree name Bracy, asserting that when the two of them were in Moscow they had let Soviet agents roam the embassy's secure areas. On the strength of Lonetree's statement, Bracy was arrested...
According to his Marine lawyer, Bracy's interrogation and his eventual confession were shams. The lawyer, Lieut. Colonel Michael Powell, says NIS investigators have admitted altering their assessments of portions of Bracy's polygraph results from "nondeceptive" to "deceptive." (The Marine brass say the changes were merely "administrative.") Powell, an eleven-year corps veteran, insists that Bracy was ordered to sign an inaccurate summary of his statement without being allowed to read it. But when one of his interrogators then jumped up and shouted, "We've got ourselves another spy!" Bracy immediately denied saying anything of the kind. He also...
...AMERICANOVAKIAN OPEN, summed up one headline. And, indeed, for the first time in ten-nis history, four -- count 'em, four -- Czechoslovak-born players reached the finals of the U.S. Open last week, the first time any single country was so well represented. When it was all over and done at New York City's National Tennis Center, Helena Sukova, 21, and Miloslav Mecir, 22, flew home to Czechoslovakia and hero's welcomes, while the victorious Czechomericans Ivan Lendl, 26, and Martina Navratilova, 29, collected their $210,000 prizes and stayed on in their adopted country. Although he is still...