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Article: Spying's Declining Stakes
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 1, 1987
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The spy John Walker Jr. sold the Soviets blueprints of American
coding equipment. The damage to U.S. security was profound. "If
there had been a war, we would have won it," remarked Vitaly
Yurchenko, the KGB official who defected to the United States and
then defected back to the Soviet Union. Yurchenko was
characteristically confused. If there had been a war, no one would
have won.
Three former Marine guards at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow are now
under arrest. Two are charged with allowing Soviet agents virtual
free run of the embassy, including the most secure rooms on the
building's seventh floor. One of the Marines, Sgt. Clayton J.
Lonetree, reportedly admitted that he fell for a ...