4 Japanese Guilty of Spying at U.S. Air Base
Four Japanese spies were convicted Tuesday of stealing unclassified U.S. Air Force documents from a base in Japan and selling them to China and the Soviet Union, court officials said.
Judge Mitsunori Ikushima of the Tokyo District Court sentenced Masateru Tachibana, 60, a self-styled defense analyst, and Hiroshi Date to 30 months in jail and fined them $7,800. Two accomplices were given suspended prison terms.
The four, arrested in 1986, were found guilty of stealing unclassified technical manuals of U.S. Air Force planes from the Yokota Air Base, west of Tokyo.
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