The Nation - News from Sept. 21, 1989
A federal judge in Savannah, Ga., sentenced convicted spy Huseyin Yildirim to life in prison for turning over U.S. military secrets to agents for Eastern Bloc governments. Yildirim, 61, a Turkish national, was convicted July 21 on charges of conspiring to commit espionage against the United States and of acting as a courier for convicted spy and former Army Warrant Officer James W. Hall III. Yildirim, who did not testify at his trial, told U.S. District Judge B. Avant Edenfield that he was innocent and was in fact a double agent for the United States.
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