Blog Table of Contents     Retired U.S. Army Sergeant Clyde Conrad convicted in Germany of high treason June 6, 1990 The 1990 Rod Ramsay Espionage Case in the Media Among the curious aspects of media coverage of the Ramsay espionage case is both the lack of coverage in Boston, and the lack of “Boston”  in the coverage.  Ramsay first appears in the media and the pages of the Boston Globe because of a leak in 1988 to the Washington Post, though he is not named. On August  26, 1988 Stephen Kurkjian, then the Boston Globe’s Washington bureau chief wrote that "He [Conrad] recruited another member of the US Army for espionage and paid him a sum in five figures for military documents."  It would be almost two years before It became known publicly that the other member of the US Army who had received that five figure sum was Boston area native Rod Ramsay. According to Traitors Among Us , Ramsay was “raised in a suburb of Boston in a broken family,