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Article: SPY RING FEARED NOT NEW.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 29, 1988
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Byline: Kevin Costelloe Associated Press
Soviet bloc agents may have had access to NATO defense secrets at a U.S. Army base for decades before a former U.S. sergeant was charged with spying there, a West German newspaper said Sunday.
West Germany last week announced the arrest of former U.S. Army Sgt. Clyde Lee Conrad, who since the late 1970s allegedly sold classified information from the Army base in Bad Kreuznach.
Officials said Conrad, 41, revealed secrets about nuclear missile bases, pipeline systems and troop strength to Hungarian agents, who passed them on to the Kremlin and other Soviet bloc countries.
But the spy ring may have ...