For roughly 14 years, U.S. Army non-commissioned officer Clyde Lee Conrad sold secret documents to Hungary, which netted him more than $1 million.
Conrad had been introduced to this dangerous but profitable line of work by another Army sergeant, Hungarian-American Zoltan Szabo. Szabo weaseled out of prison time by testifying against Conrad and others in their spy ring, but Conrad was tried in Koblenz, Germany, in 1990 and received a life sentence.
This spy ring had sold the Hungarians information on nuclear weapon sites, NATO material of various kinds, and the U.S. Army's plan for troop movements should war break out.
Conrad died in prison in 1998 at age 50.
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