Attache Recalled Over ‘Blunder’
From Times Wire Reports
A French military attache in Washington, apparently caught up in an espionage controversy there, has been recalled home and assigned to an obscure post, the French army said. A French military spokesman said the officer, Col. Marc Wood, “had committed what we consider a blunder.” He declined to comment on reports that Wood, reportedly a nuclear weapons specialist, was accused of handing confidential U.S. documents to India, which is seeking to create a nuclear arsenal despite U.S. efforts to halt proliferation.
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