February 22, 2008

Fulbright Scholar Says He Was Asked to Spy While in Bolivia

By MONICA CAMPBELL

The U.S. State Department has recalled to Washington a U.S. diplomat in Bolivia who asked a Fulbright scholar and Peace Corps volunteers to "spy" on Cubans and Venezuelans there.

The scholar, John Alexander van Schaick, said Vincent Cooper, the embassy's assistant regional security officer in Bolivia, had asked him to provide the names and addresses of any Venezuelan or Cuban doctors or fieldworkers whom he met while in the country.

Mr. van Schaick, 23, who graduated from