The Court-Martial of Clayton Lonetree
New York: Henry Holt and Company [A Donald Hutter Book], 1989. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [3], 240 pages. Illustrations. Introduction by William Kunstler. DJ has slight wear. Clayton J. Lonetree (born 1961), son of a Winnebago father and Navajo mother, served nine years in prison for espionage. During the early 1980s, Lonetree was a Marine Corps Security Guard stationed at the U. S. Embassy in Moscow. Lonetree is the first U.S. Marine to be convicted of spying against the United States. Lonetree, who was stationed in Moscow as a guard at the U.S. Embassy in the early 1980s, confessed in 1987 to selling documents to the Soviet Union. Lonetree was seduced by a female KGB officer named "Violetta Seina" in that year. He was then blackmailed into handing over documents when he was assigned to Vienna, Austria. These documents included the blueprints of the U.S. Embassy buildings in Moscow and Vienna and the names and identities of U.S. undercover intelligence agents in the Soviet Union. He was tried in a military court and convicted of espionage on August 21, 1987. In 1986 Native American Marine sergeant Clayton Lonetree informed the CIA that during his Moscow embassy tour he had made contact with the KGB. Lonetree hoped the CIA would assign him as a double agent. Thus began the ``sex-for-secrets'' scandal in which the security of the U.S. embassy in Moscow was called into question. This book--based on ``classified'' trial transcripts and written by the chief investigator for the defense in Lonetree's trial and Hoffman, an author--charges that a gullible enlisted man was exploited in order to protect high-ranking officials responsible for embassy security. Headley and Hoffman argue that Lonetree committed no crime other than passing two innocuous pieces of information to a female embassy employee with whom he had an affair. He was arrested and--without being informed of his rights--charged with espionage. The Marine prosecutor in the case sought the death penalty, and Lonetree was considered lucky by the prosecution to receive a 30-year prison sentence. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Clayton Lonetree, Marine, Espionage, Moscow Embassy, Honey trap, Court-Martial, William Kunstler, Article 32, Interrogations, Confession, Prosecution, Security Clearances, Shaun Byrnes, Violette Seina
ISBN: 0805008934
[Book #76836]
Price: $60.00