An Air Force captain in Osan, a mission planner with the 5th Reconnaissance Squadron (which flies classified reconnaissance missions in northeast Asia) will do six months in the pen for failing to report that two Russian women (one of whom, at least, was a working girl here) had asked him for classified information, which he apparently divulged. Read the link for a truly astonishing tale of international intrigue and human stupidity.
(Hat tip to GI Korea)
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Weird. Why would the “dancer” ask for classified info?
Back when I had access to classified information, I kept hoping some hot Russian seductress would try to hump the information out of me. Never happened, alas… In my case, I wouldn’t have gone to jail: I was planning to tell everyone as soon as it happened.
Obviously, the little head was doing all the thinking in this case.
there used to be russian dance team put together by the girls working in the young-chon nightclub down there where they would come out in feathery, folky russian costumes and do some acrobatics on the stage. one of them was on the russian olympic gymnastics team a few years before she came to korea and could do some incredible things with her body-things that surely could make men tell secrets.
The guy got off very, very lucky with only six months. I knew an E-4 who got six months in Mannheim (a U.S. military prison in Germany) for STEROIDS. And this captain admitted to divulging classified, disobeying an order, adultery, etc. Officers should be held to at least the standard that enlisted are, not less.
This guy definitely got off easy for telling classified info to a juicy girl claiming to be with the KGB along with everything else he got convicted of. Nothing new for Osan officers look how much time 1LT Davis got in the Osan Shakedown Scandal.
I cannot but think of the possiblity that there are layers to this story. Six months for selling top secret materials to the KGB? Very light.
Could it possible that he was working with the CIA from the very beginning? Like the movie, “Where Eagle’s Dare”, he could have been scenarioed to contact the KGB. The aim was to gain the names of KGB operatives in Korea.
It was a big success. However, some dedicated enlisted intercepted an e-mail and blew the whole thing open and then the judge had to slap something light on him.