PENNSYLVANIA : Spy Suspect Ruled Competent for Trial
A federal judge ruled that former Army clerk Robert Lipka is competent to be tried on charges of Cold War spying for the Soviet Union. Lipka of Millersville, Pa., was arrested Feb. 23 and accused of taking secret documents from the National Security Agency headquarters at Ft. Meade, Md., between 1965 and 1967. The government said he sold them to Soviet agents for a total of $27,000. The defense said that the case against Lipka relied on four recorded conversations with an FBI agent calling himself Sergei Nikitin but that the government could produce no documentary evidence.
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