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.”

Traitors Among Us. Inside the Spy Catcher's World. by Stuart A. Herrington. (Some of this book is about Rod Ramsay and the spyring he belonged to led by Clyde Lee Conrad)

The Spy [Rod Ramsay] Who Served Me Salon July 16, 2011

Empty Frames w/ Kerry Joyce discussing Roderick Ramsay as a possible potential perhaps Gardner heist suspect July 28, 2025

FBI says alleged spy [Roderick Ramsay] robbed Vermont bank earlier By Michael Isikoff, The Washington Post June 9,1990

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

Spy Gets 36 Year Prison Term

Evolution in Europe; Ex-Sergeant [Rod Ramsay] Charged With Role In Selling Secrets to Warsaw Pact By Neil A. Lewis New York Times
New York Times Page 5 June 9, 1990

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."

$6 million in Art Stolen From Gallery on the Upper East Side By David E. Pitt New York Times February 10, 1988

Espionage and Other Compromises of National Security August 11, 2009 Case Summaries from 1975 to 2008 Defense Personnel Security Research Center Monterey, California