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Friday, November 6, 1998 Published at 02:35 GMT


World: Americas

American charged as spy for former Soviet Union. spy


A grand jury in the United States has charged a former army intelligence analystwith spying for the former Soviet Union.

The man, David Boone, is charged with selling highly classified defence documents to the Soviet intelligence agency, the KGB, over a period of years from 1988.

The authorities said the man was arrested last month after being lured back to the United States from Germany by an FBI agent posing as a Russian spy.

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