Blog Table of Contents     Retired U.S. Army Sergeant Clyde Conrad convicted in Germany of high treason June 6, 1990 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? One possible suspect the FBI might be constrained from revealing if he were known to be one of the robbers is convicted spy Rod Ramsay.   A Boston native and admitted fomer bank robber, at the time of the Gardner Heist, Ramsay, who was arrested just ten weeks after the Gardner Heist for espionage, was facing a possible life sentence, for acts of espionage he had already admitted to, months before, starting in November of 1989.  As a spy and not a mere robber, Ramsay is someone whose misdeeds might not qualify him for a deal with a federal prosecutor for the return of some paintings,  and he was also someone whose name might not be released to the public for a number of reasons, if