THE OLYMPICS: WINTER GAMES AT ALBERTVILLE : NOTES
The German soccer scandal, in which former East German players are losing their jobs because they once were informers for their country’s security police, has spread to the bobsled team.
One of the world’s best four-man drivers, European champion Harald Czudij, admitted to the German coach this week that he was employed by the Stasi to report on the activities of his former East German teammates.
German officials were meeting with his former teammates to determine whether they would still be comfortable in the same sled with Czudij.
They also were investigating whether two-man and four-man driver Wolfgang Hoppe was a Stasi spy.
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