The World - News from Aug. 29, 1988

Americans may have sold North Atlantic Treaty Organization defense secrets to Soviet Bloc agents for decades before former U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Clyde Lee Conrad allegedly became active in a Hungarian-linked spy ring, the West German newspaper Welt am Sonntag said. Quoting unidentified U.S. investigators, the newspaper said Conrad’s predecessor at a U.S. documentation center also worked for the Hungarian secret service. It identified him only as a U.S. officer of Hungarian descent. Commenting on the report, a U.S. official said only that the investigation is continuing. Conrad, 41, was arrested last week on suspicion of having engaged in espionage for nearly a decade.