This has been one of the few espionage cases that have received media attention.

Such apparent behavior has been the focus of numerous industrial espionage cases that have resulted in legal battles.

It said some senior officials were "almost nonchalant" about espionage cases.

The sentence is one of the longest handed down by a military court in an espionage case.

He and others suggested that some government officials might fear that they, too, could be swept up in an espionage case.

It was the second espionage case announced this month.

All this, he says, usually means no smoking guns of the sorts found in other espionage cases.

One legislator called it "the biggest espionage case in decades."

But his painful preoccupation with the espionage case soon became evident to those who knew him.

The report, published in December 1984, noted that those changes might have prevented two recent espionage cases.