SECURITY - IN THE BREACH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000504820004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 8, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/27: CIA-RDP90-00965R000504820004-2
WASHINGTON POST
8 April 1987
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak T
Security -in the Breach
No high-level diplomat from Secretary of
State George Shultz on down has yet noted
that the seduction of Marine guards in Mos-
cow is an almost exact replay of what hap-
pened in the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw in
1959, with both seductions compromising
U.S. national security.
That suggests the crazy diplomatic sloppiness
over security that endangered our country 28
years ago was forgotten almost as soon as it
happened. At issue here is not the Marines so
much as the oversight they need but did not get
from diplomatic security officers.
Beyond that, the insistence of every secre-
tary of state since the Nixon administration in
clinging to the nightmarish deal on new em-
bassies for the United States and the Soviet
Union has finally ignited into the roaring
Soviet scandal carefully kept under cover all
these years.
The embassy deal imperils U.S. state se-
crets ere because the new Soviet m ssy
si s on a hilltop, ea position or electronic
penetration of the ite ouse and
other government offices. It also exposes
secrets in Moscow because the new embassy
was cons-fiuc un a vie , no ., su-
pervision. The woodwork reeks with sensors
and elec