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U.S. marshals robbed at distillery

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STRATHBLANE, Scotland, July 19 (UPI) -- Three U.S. air marshals who took a side trip to a Scottish distillery on their way to the G8 summit lost sensitive documents left in their car.

"They were red-faced ... and it wasn't the whisky they had been sampling," a source at the Glengoyne distillery told the Glasgow Herald.

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The marshals were part of an advance party of White House and State Department aides who landed at Prestwick Airport before the Group of Eight meeting at Gleneagles. They rented a car and then drove to the distillery, about 15 miles north of Glasgow.

"We reckon they were followed by hard-core G8 protesters," the source said. "No one here can remember the last time a car was broken into in the car park."

When the marshals realized they had been robbed of documents on security and travel plans for higher-ups attending the conference as well as their identification, they demanded a private telephone, the source told the Herald. Officers from Britain's Special Branch arrived quickly, followed by U.S. agents who searched nearby fields.

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