United States v. Foster

OPINION OF THE COURT

O’DONNELL, Judge:

Late in the evening of 13 July 1979, Special Agent James Giery, a criminal investigator and member of the local drug suppression team, was performing duty in the main bahnhof in Mainz, Federal Republic of Germany. Giery was one of four law en*531forcement personnel in the train station that night. They were engaged in a “surveillance and monitoring” operation whose purpose was to stop the flow of drugs from Frankfurt into Mainz.1 According to Giery, one of the methods employed to this end was to question American soldiers who arrive on the Frankfurt train…