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Article: MARINES' LOOSE LIVING BLAMED FOR MOSCOW SPY SCANDAL MISBEHAVIOR TOLERATED BY EMBASSY.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- April 4, 1987
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Byline: William J. Eaton Los Angeles Times
A hedonistic mood in their embassy quarters and a tolerant attitude by superiors created a climate of easy sex, lots of liquor and black-market profiteering for many of the young Marines attached to the U.S. Embassy here, according to diplomatic personnel here.
"Marine House," the section where the Leathernecks are quartered, "could have been 'Animal House,'" said one Western diplomat, referring to a popular American film about orgiastic college parties.
At one of the Marines' celebrations, a young British woman was raped, one of the sources said. Afterward, five Marines were sent home to face ...