The Nation - News from Dec. 28, 1988

A Turkish national identified by federal prosecutors as “a courier and a paymaster” for East German intelligence was ordered held without bond and sent to Savannah, Ga., to face trial on charges of conspiracy to commit espionage. U.S. Magistrate Paul Game Jr. ruled after a 1 1/2-hour hearing in Tampa, Fla., that the government showed probable cause that Huseyin Yildirim committed the offenses he is charged with in a federal complaint filed last week in Savannah. Yildirim, 60, was arrested Dec. 21 at his home west of Tampa on a charge of conspiracy to commit espionage. In the same investigation, the FBI also raided the home of Army intelligence officer James W. Hall III near Savannah. Hall, 30, a warrant officer assigned to Ft. Stewart, Ga., met with an undercover FBI agent the night before the raids and spoke about providing highly sensitive intelligence documents to the Soviets and East Germans since 1982, the FBI alleges.