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DATE: THURSDAY, June 7, 1990                   TAG: 9006070300
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: The New York Times
DATELINE: BONN, WEST GERMANY                                LENGTH: Short

BONN COURT SENTENCES AMERICAN SPY

A West German court sentenced a former United States Army sergeant Wednesday to life in prison for selling Soviet-bloc agents "mountains of highly secret materials" that could have undermined Western defenses in the event of war.

The Superior State Court in Karlsruhe ruled that the former sergeant, Clyde Lee Conrad, 43, a native of Sebring, Ohio, committed "extraordinarily severe" espionage in passing critical defense documents for more than 10 years to Hungarian and Czechoslovak agents.

Conrad had access to the materials while serving as custodian of a vault filled with classified documents at the U.S. Army 8th Infantry Division headquarters in Bad Kreuznach, 40 miles southeast of Frankfurt, from 1975 to 1985.

Prosecutors said that after his retirement, he remained in West Germany and continued to relay documents through an unnamed soldier he had recruited.

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