ACCESSION NUMBER:00000
FILE ID:95081502.WWE
DATE:08/15/95
TITLE:U.S. SAYS RUSSIAN CHARGES AGAINST CAPT. LYNCH 'ABSOLUTELY UNFOUNDED'
TEXT:
(Text: State Department statement) (190)
Washington -- The U.S. State Department refuted Russian charges August
11 that U.S. Army Captain Jason Lynch, a West Point instructor,
engaged in intelligence activities while in Russia recently.
Following is the text of an August 15 statement by David Johnson,
acting spokesman of the Department of State:
(Begin text)
As the press reported, a West Point instructor, U.S. Army Captain
Jason Lynch, left Russia as originally scheduled on Saturday following
an official Russian protest that he had engaged in intelligence
activities. Those charges are absolutely unfounded. Captain Lynch was
engaged in an environmental study of radiological contamination along
the Yenisey River in Eastern Siberia at the invitation of the
Institute of Biophysics. All of Captain Lynch's activities in Russia
were under the direction of and in conjunction with his Russian hosts.
On August 11, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs made public
these unwarranted charges, which apparently originated with the
Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). Today, in Washington and
Moscow, we formally rejected the Russian complaint about Captain
Lynch's activities.
(End text)
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