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Clayton Lonetree, the Rest of the Story
DANCING WITH THE DEVIL; Sex, Espionage and the U.S. Marines: The Clayton Lonetree Story. By Rodney Barker. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996, 335 pp., $23.50. (Member $21.15)
Mixing the CIA, the KGB, a beautiful woman, and a Marine sergeant seems more the recipe for a Robert Ludlum thriller than the true story of one American's journey into the world of espionage. Ask any civilian or military member who Sgt Clayton Lonetree is and you will undoubtedly get the same response-he was a Marine spy, a modern day Benedict Arnold. This is usually the extent of the answer, even when the question is posed to other Marines. Though the case was well publicized, most people know few of the details that surrounded it. How could a sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps betray his country? How was he recruited by the KGB? How was he caught? What happened at his trial? Where is Lonetree now? In time to coincide with his release from prison, bestselling author Rodney Barker answers these questions and many more in his superb new book, Dancing with the Devil; Sex, Espionage and the U.S. Marines: The Clayton Lonetree Story.
The book begins in Vienna, where Lonetree turns himself in to a CIA operative. From this point the book-with its well-crafted flashback approachreads like a novel as Lonetree is questioned by the CIA...