http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=341606&p_section_name=&p_art_type=11066&p_subcat=Russia&p_category=Europe [look at the last paragraph] Former Army Clerk Sentenced for Cold War Espionage AP 24-SEP-97 PHILADELPHIA (AP) A former Army clerk at the National Security Agency was sentenced to 18 years in prison Wednesday for selling secrets to the Soviet Union three decades ago. Robert S. Lipka, 51, pleaded guilty in May to conspiracy to commit espionage. He was arrested last year after his ex-wife betrayed him. "I put this to rest many years ago, and I never dreamed it would come out like this," a tearful Lipka told U.S. District Judge Charles R. Weiner. "I owe an apology to a lot of people." Lipka was trained as an intelligence analyst and had top security clearance with the NSA at Fort Meade, Md., where he was responsible for distributing and destroying classified documents. Between 1965 and 1967, Lipka photographed documents with a camera provided by the Soviets and dropped the film off in a park for up to $1,000 a drop, prosecutors said. He allegedly got a total of $27,000 from the KGB. In the late 1960s, Lipka told his then-wife, Patricia, that he was selling NSA materials to the Soviets. The couple married in 1966 and divorced in 1974. In 1993, after Lipka's wife went to authorities, Lipka recounted the arrangement for an FBI agent posing as a Soviet spy. After his arrest, the coin collector and gambler from Millersville threatened to reveal government secrets on the Internet if his case were not dropped. The judge also fined Lipka $10,000.