YANGON, 6 May - Security personnel found a suspicious-looking foreigner swimming with the help of a 5-litre drinking water bottle in the Inya Lake near International Business Centre on Pyay Road here at 5.30 a.m today and investigated him for security reasons.

During the preliminary interrogation by security personnel, the man confessed of his own accord that he was an American citizen, by the name of Mr John Willian Yeattaw, holding the American passport (PP.No - 4397677222/ 28-4-2008), that he arrived on a tourist visa in Yangon on 2 May, that he stayed at Beauty Land Hotel (2), that he swam through the lake towards the compound of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's house on 3 May night, that he secretly entered the house and stayed there, and that he left the house at night of 5 May. He was found and arrested by the security force while he was swimming back out of the lake.

A passport, a black haversack, a torch, a pair of folding pliers, a Cannon camera, two 100-US dollar notes and ninety-three 1000-kyat notes were also confiscated.

Further investigation is being made to find out his motive for secretly entering the area that is out of bounds on security grounds.

(Source: The New Light of Myanmar dated 7 May 2009)