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Article: U.S. Ex-Sergeant Accused in Spy Case Not Given Mandatory Security Check
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- The Washington Post
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- August 27, 1988
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Clyde Lee Conrad, a retired Army sergeant accused of selling
secrets to the Eastern Bloc, did not receive a mandatory background
check in 1983 to keep his "top secret" security clearance at a
military base in West Germany, Pentagon officials said yesterday.
Conrad, 41, was arrested Tuesday by West German authorities on
suspicion of copying and transmitting classified documents to
Hungary's secret service for high pay during the past eight years.
His work from 1980 to 1985 in the operations office of the U.S.
8th Infantry Division headquarters at Bad Kreuznach potentially gave
him access to documents reflecting the division's role in NATO's war
plans, the officials said.
The division, a ...