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Former
CIA Director Petraeus Blames His Mistress
Friday,
30 Nov 2012 01:14 PM
By
Ronald Kessler
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Ronald
Kessler reporting from Washington, D.C. — While
admitting he “screwed up royally,” former CIA Director David Petraeus is now
telling the world that his affair with Paula Broadwell was all her
fault.
Petraeus’
friend, Brig. Gen. James Shelton, is saying that Broadwell is responsible for
the affair with the married retired general.
Petraeus
“was the innocent one when it came to relationships,” Shelton told the Daily
Mail of London’s website MailOnline. Besides being beautiful, intelligent, and a
fellow West Point Academy graduate, Broadwell is “a savvy woman,” Shelton said.
“She’s not a kid. In a lot of ways I think she knows more about the world than
Dave — I’m talking about sex.”
Lest
there be any doubt that Shelton is speaking for Petraeus, the former CIA
director wrote a letter to him about his affair after he resigned. On a regular
basis, Petraeus emails friends in the media on “background” with self-serving
comments that appear in stories attributed to those close to
him.
Petraeus’
sorry explanation brings to mind the case of Clayton J. Lonetree, a Marine
security guard based at the American Embassy in Moscow in the mid-1980s. The KGB
used the strikingly beautiful Violetta A. Seina, who worked for the embassy in
Moscow, to entrap Sgt. Lonetree in a honey pot, intelligence lingo for
recruitment of a spy through sex.
As
recounted in my book, “Moscow Station: How the KGB Penetrated the American
Embassy,” in September 1985, Lonetree noticed Seina at a subway station.
Lonetree thought the meeting was a chance encounter. Most likely the KGB had set
it up.
From
eavesdropping on phone conversations and picking up office gossip, it would have
been easy for the KGB to learn that Lonetree had just gone through disciplinary
proceedings and that the other Marines did not hold him in high esteem. The fact
that he usually became a loud, boisterous drunk after only a few drinks was
perfectly obvious. He was thus a ripe target for KGB
recruitment.
Lonetree
and Seina chatted for a few minutes in the subway. After that, he would try to
find ways to run into her at the embassy when she was working there. He saw her
again on a subway train in October.
Moscow’s extensive subway system
crisscrosses the city like a spider web. The chances of running into someone
twice by accident were as remote as running into the same person twice on New
York City’s subway system. Yet Lonetree again thought it was a chance
encounter.
As
Lonetree and Seina chatted over the noise of the train, she missed her subway
stop. He was flattered. This was too good to be true. Her soft, grey eyes seemed
to hold the promise of all the love he had missed as a child. They got off
together at the next stop and took a walk, chatting animatedly about American
books, movies, and food.
After
two hours, they parted. But in the next few days, Lonetree would see her again
in the embassy. The KGB had to be chuckling at how smoothly the plan was
working. The State Department’s preference for hiring Soviet employees over
Americans played nicely into the KGB’s hands.
They
next met at the Marine Corps ball in November. That evening, Lonetree danced
with Seina several times. He was taken by her grace. By now, he was firmly
hooked. Seina was far more beautiful and enchanting than any girl he could ever
attract on his own.
Eventually,
Seina invited him to her home on Volzhskiy Boulevard. Lonetree began having sex
with Seina, known in spy lingo as a “swallow,” in January
1986.
Now
the KGB began stepping up the pressure. Seina said she wanted to introduce
Lonetree to her Uncle Sasha. In fact, according to CIA files, Sasha was Aleksei
G. Yefimov, a KGB officer.
“You’re
a good guy,” Yefimov told Lonetree. “If you are a friend of the Soviet Union,
you will help me and Violetta,” Yefimov said.
As
Yefimov began asking him for information about the embassy and the CIA officers
stationed there, Lonetree recognized that he would have to play along, and he
began spilling secrets. While he was not married, he had been violating rules
against fraternization with Soviet women. And he did not want to lose
Seina.
In
August 1987, a military court convicted Lonetree of espionage and 12 other
related counts. Among those counts were charges that he conspired with Soviet
agents to gather names and photographs of American intelligence agents, to
provide personality data on American intelligence agents, and to provide
information concerning the floor plans of the U.S. embassies in Moscow and
Vienna. He was sentenced to 30 years of imprisonment.
“I
feared blackmail,” Lonetree told ABC’s Sam Donaldson in May 1996 after serving
eight years in a military prison.
While
Petraeus did not give away secrets to the enemy, the Lonetree case shows why
those with security clearances are not supposed to put themselves in positions
where they could be compromised. The leader of an organization should set an
example and be beyond reproach.
