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Dancing with the Devil
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In this riveting account of one of the most notorious spy cases in Cold War history, Rodney Barker, the author of The Broken Circle and The Hiroshima Maidens, uncovers startling new facts about the head-line-making sex-for-secrets marine spy scandal at the American embassy in Moscow. This is a nonfiction book that reads with all the excitement of an espionage novel.
Although national security issues made the case an instant sensation—at one point government officials were calling it “the most serious espionage case of the century”—the human element gave it an unusual pathos, for it was not just secret documents that were at issue, but love, sex, marine pride, and race It began when a Native American marine sergeant named Clayton Lonetree, who was serving as a marine security guard at the American embassy in Moscow, fell in love with a Russian woman, who then recruited him as a spy for the KGB. Soon the story expanded to involve the CIA, diplomats on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and the United States Navy's own investigative service, and before it was over a witch hunt would implicate more marines and ruin many reputations and careers.
In the end, charges were dropped against everyone except Lonetree, who after a long and dramatic court-martial was sentenced to thirty years in prison. But so many questions were left unanswered that the scandal would be thought of as one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Cold War.
Not any longer. In the process of researching his book, investigative writer Rodney Barker gained access to all the principal characters in this story. He interviewed key U.S. military and intelligence personnel, many of whom were unhappy with the public records and trial, and spoke out with astonishing candor. He traveled to Russia to track down and interview KGB officers involved in the operation, including the beautiful and enigmatic Violetta Seina, who lured Lonetree into the “honey-trap”—only to fall in love with him. And he succeeded in penetrating the wall of silence that has surrounded Clayton Lonetree since his arrest and reports the sergeant's innermost thoughts.
A provocative aspect of this story that Barker explores in depth is whether justice was served in Lonetree's court-martial—or whether he was used as a face-saving scapegoat after a majority security failure, or doomed by conflicts within his defense team, between his military attorney and his civilian lawyer William Kunstler, or victimized by an elaborate and devious KGB attempt to cover the traces of a far more significant spy: Aldrich Ames, the “mole” at the very heart of the CIA.
Above all, this is a book about Clayton Lonetree, one man trapped by his own impulses and his upbringing, in the final spasms of the Cold War, a curiously touching, complex, and ultimately sympathetic figure who did, in fact, sacrifice everything for love.
Although national security issues made the case an instant sensation—at one point government officials were calling it “the most serious espionage case of the century”—the human element gave it an unusual pathos, for it was not just secret documents that were at issue, but love, sex, marine pride, and race It began when a Native American marine sergeant named Clayton Lonetree, who was serving as a marine security guard at the American embassy in Moscow, fell in love with a Russian woman, who then recruited him as a spy for the KGB. Soon the story expanded to involve the CIA, diplomats on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and the United States Navy's own investigative service, and before it was over a witch hunt would implicate more marines and ruin many reputations and careers.
In the end, charges were dropped against everyone except Lonetree, who after a long and dramatic court-martial was sentenced to thirty years in prison. But so many questions were left unanswered that the scandal would be thought of as one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Cold War.
Not any longer. In the process of researching his book, investigative writer Rodney Barker gained access to all the principal characters in this story. He interviewed key U.S. military and intelligence personnel, many of whom were unhappy with the public records and trial, and spoke out with astonishing candor. He traveled to Russia to track down and interview KGB officers involved in the operation, including the beautiful and enigmatic Violetta Seina, who lured Lonetree into the “honey-trap”—only to fall in love with him. And he succeeded in penetrating the wall of silence that has surrounded Clayton Lonetree since his arrest and reports the sergeant's innermost thoughts.
A provocative aspect of this story that Barker explores in depth is whether justice was served in Lonetree's court-martial—or whether he was used as a face-saving scapegoat after a majority security failure, or doomed by conflicts within his defense team, between his military attorney and his civilian lawyer William Kunstler, or victimized by an elaborate and devious KGB attempt to cover the traces of a far more significant spy: Aldrich Ames, the “mole” at the very heart of the CIA.
Above all, this is a book about Clayton Lonetree, one man trapped by his own impulses and his upbringing, in the final spasms of the Cold War, a curiously touching, complex, and ultimately sympathetic figure who did, in fact, sacrifice everything for love.
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INDEX
Administration for Service to the Diplomatic Corps (UPDK), 260–61, 262, 268, 269, 278
Agee, Philip, 202
Aldridge, Goethe “Bud,” 146, 236–38
Algonquin Indians, 224
American Embassy (Moscow), 57, 78, 79–81, 128, 131–34, 137–40
CIA covert operations in, 26, 37, 44, 88, 95, 132–34, 137–38, 141, 226, 264
CL as security guard at, 11, 22, 37, 42–43, 79–80, 132–33
Communications Programs Unit (CPU) in, 11, 12, 37, 137, 141, 142, 164, 313
foreign service nationals (FSNs) at, 87–88, 89, 120–21, 269
General Services section of, 84
security system in, 42–43, 131–32, 134, 137–38, 139–42, 149, 156, 164, 166, 175, 226
Soviet listening devices in, 80–81, 134, 137–38, 139–40, 142, 236
American Embassy (Vienna), 22, 57, 78, 128
CIA covert operations in, 22–27, 39, 40, 44, 57, 104, 179–80, 226, 276–77
CL as security guard at, 21, 26, 37–40, 46, 274–77
security system in, 26, 39
American General Services, 262–63
American Indian Movement (AIM), 103, 105, 170, 175
American Nazi Party, 112, 194
Ames, Aldrich Hazen, 313–15, 320
Anderson, David, 294, 297–98
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), 255
anti-Semitism, 72–73, 194, 248
Arizona State Police, 105
Army Air Corps, U.S., 124
Austin, James, 47
Baltimore Sun, 216
Banks, Dennis, 103, 150–51
Barovikov, Aleksei, 269, 270
Barron, John, 195–98, 225
Beck, David, 124–34, 320
education and career of, 124–25
Henderson and, 128–3...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Epigraph
- A Trophy of Soviet Espionage
- Moonlighting in Moscow
- The March to Justice
- Secrets
- From Russia with Love
- Afterword
- Photographs
- Acknowledgments
- About Rodney Barker
- Index
- Copyright