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...September, Lonetree agreed to cooperate with investigators in exchange for the possibility of a five-year reduction of his 30-year sentence. The Navy expected him finally to admit to the embassy spying. Instead, Lonetree's interrogation, which included polygraph tests, has convinced top-ranking officials that he has been telling the truth in denying that he let Soviets into the embassy. Said one investigator: "We can't shake his story...
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...
...week was having difficulty preparing cases against Sergeant Clayton Lonetree and Corporal Arnold Bracy, the two Marines whose confessions triggered the scandal. The embassy guards have apparently repudiated or contradicted key sections of their initial statements, and much of the investigators' case against them rests on hearsay evidence and polygraph tests...
...sides even disagree on specific facts, matters which would seem to be necessarily true or false. For example, Sickler, who worked for Coors during the 60s and 70s, says that employees were subjected to polygraph tests before being hired and while employed. In sworn affidavits before the House subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations, Sickler and three other former Coors employees stated that they were asked personal questions during their preemployment lie detector sessions, including questions such as "What is your sex preference?," "Are you a Communist?," and "Have you ever smoked marijuana...
William Coors maintains that the lie detector tests only occurred before an employee was hired and that they never asked any questions about sexual or political practices. And, he suggests that the whole point is currently moot because Coors no longer asks any potential employees to take polygraph tests. Instead, all prospective Coors employees are asked to take a urinalysis test...