Friday, March 3, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
West Germans crack Soviet police spy ring
The Associated Press
BONN, West Germany — Investigators have cracked a major spy ring in which West German computer "hackers" acquired sensitive U.S. military information and sold it to the Soviets, a broadcasting network said today.
"Thousands of computer codes, passwords and programs were delivered to the Soviets," the Norddeutsche Runkfurt network said in a press release. "They opened the door for the KGB to gain access to some of the most important computer centers of the Western world."
The network said that among the computers was the U.S. Defense Department's general database known as Optima, which stores all of the computers tied to nuclear weapons and energy research in New Mexico and Illinois.
The information would give the Kremlin access to U.S. military supply depot statistics and to several
European institutes that deal with atomic and aerospace research, the statement said.
It said three suspects were in investigative custody, and it quoted Federal Prosecutor's Office spokesman Alexander Prechelt as saying that the three "are suspected of illegally obtaining information and selling it to an East ble intelligence agency."
The network said authorities thought that three West German hackers were recruited by the KGB, the Soviet secret police, in 1985 and "were paid with cash, drugs ... to provide the codes and passwords to the Soviets."
According to the statement, the trio handed over "highly sensitive information from the United States, Japan, Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland and West Germany" at a 1985 meeting to two KGB agents in East Berlin.
Disappearance of U.S. soldier puzzles Army
The Associated Press
FRANKFURT, West Germany — The U.S. Army said yesterday that it was baffled by the disappearance of a "good, clean-cut" U.S. soldier who access to classified information had dismissed near the East German border.
An Army spokeman, Lt. Col. Dye, said there was not enough information to say whether Spec. 4 Michael A. Peri had defected Dye. Another officer, the patier was missing from an intelligence office where Peri worked.
Peri, of Laguna Niguel, Calif., has seen listed as "absent without leave" since he failed to show up for work Feb. 21 at the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Fulda, 65 miles northwest of Frankfurt.
A search of Peri's living quarters showed that he had left his personal belongings behind, Dye said.
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Other findings from this survey indicate that:
Other findings from this survey indicate that:
One student drove 15 times while intoxicated in the past 6 months and 30 times in
the past year. Another student drove 62 times while intoxicated in the past year.
Three other students reported that they had ridden with an intoxicated
driver 12, 15, and 20 times in the past six month
and 25, 20, and 40 times in the past year.
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