The World - News from May 3, 1989
A West German couple have been arrested on suspicion of spying on NATO military activity for the Soviet Union, prosecutors said. The 51-year-old man, an industrial foreman, was believed to have worked for the Soviet KGB intelligence service since 1982 and his 26-year-old wife since 1984, when she emigrated from East Germany. The unidentified couple were suspected of using coded documents and a two-way radio in their home in Reutlingen, near Stuttgart, to pass information to the KGB on North Atlantic Treaty Organization activities in southwestern West Germany, it added. Reutlingen is close to U.S. missile bases in Mutlangen and Grossenstingen.
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