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...espionage and disclosure to the Soviets of the identities of U.S. agents, while he served as a guard at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. Though Lonetree could be sentenced to life in prison, his actual crime, says Defense Attorney William Kunstler, was merely to have fallen in love with Violetta Seina, a Soviet translator at the embassy...
This is a valid, if trite, argument. But again, Rushdie cannot leave well-enough alone. Speaking with Violetta Chamorro, matriarch of the La Prensa "family," he stops believing her the moment he notices that she is wearing jewelry. She is rich and therefore cannot be trusted. His objectivity, as much as hers, is brought into question by such prejudgement. Rushdie claims he went to Nicaragua looking for answers. But he seems to have known all along what he wanted to find...
...were also guilty of fraternizing with Soviets. The rules against fraternization in Soviet bloc nations require all embassy employees, from the Ambassador to the Marine guards, to report any "contact" with a national of the host country in an "uncontrolled" situation. The rule breaking allegedly made it easy for Violetta Seina, a former receptionist at the U.S. Ambassador's residence, to seduce Lonetree into letting the KGB enter the embassy. He claimed to have met her on a Moscow subway, although she attended the annual Marine ball at the embassy. Galina (her last name was not revealed), the cheerful Soviet...
Many embassy staffers remember Violetta Seina, the Soviet receptionist in Spaso House, the Ambassador's residence. She is the Soviet agent alleged to have persuaded Sergeant Clayton Lonetree, 25, to help other agents enter the embassy at night and roam the building's most sensitive communications and CIA areas, where the agents planted numerous bugs. Tall, willowy and slim, with long blond hair and large eyes, Seina stood out at the annual Marine ball. "She was so good-looking," said a former Soviet employee. "She wore a long, elegant black dress and attracted attention." When the Soviet workers were withdrawn...
Amid the shambles of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera Goya, which got its world premiere in Washington this month, there was one bright spot: at least the sets are reusable. One of them could double as Lillas Pastia's tavern in Carmen; another might suit Violetta's death in La Traviata. But as for Menotti's already recycled libretto and music, there can be no future...