Two More Marines Linked to Moscow Sex-Spy Probe : U.S. Inquiry Spreads to Warsaw Pact

WASHINGTON â€”  Two more Marine guards at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow have been implicated in a widening investigation of a major sex-spy security breach there, two members of Congress said today.

The disclosure was made in separate hearings by the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees.

Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wis.), chairman of the Armed Services panel, said, “I have from very good sources that two more Marines have been implicated in violations of the fraternization rule . . . and the two might have been (acting) together.�

He said he was disturbed that the security breach at the embassy might be “very much bigger than we thought.�

‘Scope, Numbers Widening’

Rep. Daniel A. Mica (D-Fla.), chairman of the Foreign Affairs international operations subcommittee, said: “The scope and numbers involved is widening. . . . It’s going to increase rather substantially.�

Mica said the investigation of the breach, which initially involved two elite Marine guards alleged to have had sexual liaisons with Soviet women and later to have allowed Soviet spies access to the embassy, might involve U.S. embassies in other countries as well.

The Pentagon acknowledged today its investigation had expanded beyond the Moscow embassy to include “Marine security guards and other military personnel assigned now, and previously, to U.S. establishments in ‘criteria’ (Warsaw Pact) and other selected countries of investigative service.�

Neither Mica nor Aspin would say whether the two latest Marines to be implicated were suspected of abetting Soviet espionage or were simply suspected of violating rules against intimate social contacts with Soviet Bloc citizens.

At the Armed Services hearing on the screening and training of Marine volunteers for embassy guard duty, Col. Sean Del Grosso, commanding officer of the guard program, said all recruits are told at the outset “that a Don Juan-type Marine is a liability to this program.�

No Word on Protest

At the State Department today, spokesman Charles E. Redman called the espionage at the Soviet embassy a violation of U.S. sovereignty but would not say if a protest had been made or if Shultz would make one when he goes to Moscow.

Redman would not rule out the possibility that Shultz would take a special communications trailer to Moscow to avoid using embassy equipment the Soviets can eavesdrop on.

To a White House reporter’s shouted question about Shultz using such a trailer, President Reagan replied: “Well, I hope he’s got one with him.�

In what Redman has called a serious breach of security, Marine Corps guards Sgt. Clayton Lonetree and Cpl. Arnold Bracy have been confined at the Marine base in Quantico, Va., and face charges that they allowed Soviets into the most top-secret work places in the embassy. Among the areas that may have been penetrated are rooms used for secret communications.

Fraternization Charge

Earlier this week, a third Marine, Staff Sgt. Robert Stanley Stufflebeam, was accused of violating the no-fraternization rule and of failing to acknowledge the activity when asked by superiors. He has not been charged with any alleged spying activity, however.

Meanwhile, the New York Times reported today that President Reagan was warned two years ago by his Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board that the Moscow embassy was vulnerable to Soviet espionage.

The newspaper, quoting government officials it did not name, said the report helped persuade Reagan to decrease the number of Soviet employees at the embassy but resulted in few changes in security procedures.

Reagan, asked about the report and why he didn’t heed the warnings, said at a photo session today: “We thought we were doing something. We never took anything like that lightly.�’