Rod Ramsay Links
Profile of a Spy: The Case of Rod Ramsay (Interview) April 16, 1997
"Three Minutes To Doomsday" Nonfiction book by Joe Navarro (About Rod Ramsay)
Howard Means: "This book still needs to be written," but....
coming in April 2017 from Scribner: THREE MINUTES TO DOOMSDAY, by Joe Navarro, with a little help from a friend. Movie maybe to follow!
from the April 13, 2015, VARIETY:
George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures has picked up the film rights to Joe Navarro’s [not yet written at that point] “Three Minutes to Doomsday.”
The Spy [Rod Ramsay] Who Served Me Salon July 16, 2011
Former Army Sergeant (Rod Ramsay) Sentenced for Espionage (AP) August 29, 1992 In one incident, in December 1985, Ramsay videotaped hundreds of documents for sale to Hungarian and Czechoslovakian agents.
Man charged as spy 13 months after arrest By Bruce Vielmetti AP Sepember 7, 1991
Ex-sergeant pleads guilty to espionage By Bruce Vielmetti AP Sepember 18, 1991
Accused Spy Considered A ‘Nice Guy’ by Co-Workers Orland Sentinel June 10, 1990
FBI Agent: Security Breach ‘Unprecedented’
by James Martinez AP June 8, 1990
Note: A (heavily spiked version of the same James Martinez AP
story appeared the following day on the bottom of page seven of the Boston Globe on Saturday, June 9, 1990)
The Boston Globe version does not include this: "Ramsay’s last known contact with Conrad came in January 1986 in Boston, when his former boss gave
him a small cow bell and told him that anyone displaying a similar bell was involved in the spy ring, the agent testified."
Boston Globe version: "FBI: Ex-soldier admits selling sellng NATO secrets"
Tampa man arrested in West German spy case by Victor Galvan UPI June 9, 1990
Ex-sergeant was a spy, FBI claims AP
June 9, 1990
A former U.S. Army sergeant — who at one time lived in the Orlando area received up to $5 million from East bloc countries for secret NATO plans.
FBI agents said the seven-year nationwide investigaiton into the alleged spy ring was continuing.
Spy [Roderick James Ramsay] Gets 36 Year Prison Term by Associated Press Aug. 29, 1992
Spies, Cowbells and Key Rings The San Francisco Examiner Jun 9, 1990 Page 1 June 9, 1990
Tale of 1980s spy ring broken in Tampa getting attention By Elaine Silvestrini | Tribune Staff Elaine Silvestrini May 2, 2015 "I frankly was always surprised that it never got as much notoriety as I thought it should," said Tampa attorney Greg Kehoe, who prosecuted Ramsay for the Justice Department, "because what these guys did so significantly compromised our NATO forces that I don't know of another case in Europe that so placed as many soldiers in jeopardy as this breach of security."
14 Paintings Found 2 Years After Theft On Upper East Side
By Michael Kimmelman
New York Times Page 11 June 9, 1990
Agent Provocateur By Hara Estroff Marano Psychology Today March 7, 2017 Joe Navarro was a young FBI agent with a special expertise. He managed to trap [Rod Ramsay] one of the cleverest spies of the Cold War.
The Sword AND The Stone (Part Ten) October 25, 2017 Was there a suspect, quickly known to federal authorities, but beyond their reach? Someone they would have been reluctant to identify publicly from the beginning?
Restraining the Media at the CIA Stephen Kurkjian, Globe Staff and Jeff McConnell, Special to the Globe, Boston Globe August 22, 1989" "WASHINGTON - A former public information officer for William H. Webster, the head of the CIA, told a Harvard University audience last month that improved relations between the press and the CIA had helped him to persuade three major newspapers or their reporters to kill, alter or delay articles concerning CIA operations. "About a year ago, when the story broke with the arrest in West Germany of retired Army Sgt. Clyde Lee Conrad, Baker said he informed the Times reporter, who was able to produce "a lengthy account of the espionage ring and the arrests." The reporter waited until March, however, to publish the account of Conrad's tricking of the CIA to pay him $50,000 [https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/10/world/ex-us-sergeant-s-spy-case-is-said-to-grow-in-seriousness.html] for useless information."
Clyde Conrad arrested for espionage, August 23, 1988 By Ruth QuinnAugust 19, 2013
4 Men Rob Howard Bank Branch in Barton, [VT] by Andrea Zentz The Burlington Free Press (Burlington, Vermont) Sat, Aug 29, 1981
A man with dark glasse3s and a goatee, which could very well be artificial" entered the banks and two men wearing
yellow and black ski masks carrying rifles or shotguns rushed in behind him.
No Suspects In Bank Theft Heist Amount Set At $10,000 The Times Argus August 30, 1981
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