WORLD IN BRIEF : GERMANY : American Arrested in Stasi Spy Case
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
An American employee at Germany’s main nuclear research center has been arrested for spying for Communist East Germany from 1977 to 1989, authorities said. The expatriate, identified as Jeffrey Schevitz, is a former anti-Vietnam War activist at UC Berkeley who later taught sociology at Washington University in St. Louis and the State University of New York at Buffalo before moving to Germany in 1975. Schevitz’s wife, Beatrice Altman, is also under investigation for espionage, her attorney said.
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