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Article: US SECURITY CHECKS SKIPPED ALLEGED SPY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 27, 1988
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FRANKFURT - A former US Army sergeant alleged to have led a
spy ring that sold NATO secrets to the Soviet Union did not undergo
a periodic review of his security clearance, even though he was in
charge of guarding the classified documents in a safe at an
American base, officials said yesterday.
"It was a relatively lowly job with a high-security risk,"
Alexander Prechtel, spokesman for the West German chief federal
prosecutor, said in a telephone interview. "He was an administrator
of classified documents."
In Washington, an Army spokesman said the sergeant, Clyde Lee
Conrad, had held a "top secret" clearance from 1978 until he
retired in 1985. But the spokesman acknowledged that ...