The World - News from April 5, 1988
Scotland Yard announced that art dealer Erwin van Haarlem, 43, will be charged under Britain’s anti-espionage Official Secrets Act. London’s Daily Express said the arrest involves a Soviet spy ring seeking sensitive details about how the North Atlantic Treaty Organization tracks Soviet submarines heading into the Atlantic from their base at Kola near Murmansk on the Barents Sea. Other British news reports said that while Van Haarlem claimed to be Dutch-born, he is a Czechoslovak citizen who was employed by the Soviet KGB secret police. A police spokesman would say only that Van Haarlem will appear in a London court today to be charged.
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