The Nation - News from Nov. 25, 1985
An Army court-martial has acquitted a sergeant on charges of larceny and dereliction of duty in the first of four trials stemming from an investigaton into the Army’s intelligence and special-operations units. Master Sgt. Ramon Barron was acquitted at the end of a weeklong court-martial on charges of filing false travel vouchers relating to his classified missions. More than $150 million was spent on the missions between 1981 and 1983. Barron was the lowest-ranking of the four men charged. His former boss, Lt. Col. Dale C. Duncan, and two other officers, Col. Frederick Byard and Col. James Longhofer, also face charges.
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