The Nation - News from Sept. 10, 1987
Prosecutors, opening their case in the court-martial of Staff Sgt. Robert S. Stufflebeam, accused the former Marine guard of not only having sex with Soviet prostitutes but of leading his subordinates to bars to do the same. Stufflebeam, 25, of Bloomington, Ill., the former deputy commander of the guards at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, faces up to 14 1/2 years in prison for fraternizing with Soviet nationals. He also is accused of lying to his superiors in the Marine Corps’s “sex-for-secrets” scandal.
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