USA-GERMANY: German Man Arrested as Spy Implicates U.S.

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"In the latest turn in the yearlong tensions with Germany over American spying, a German man was arrested this week on suspicion of passing secret documents to a foreign power, believed to be the United States. The American ambassador, John B. Emerson, was summoned to the Foreign Office here and urged to help with what German officials called a swift clarification of the case."

See the article: German Man Arrested as Spy Implicates U.S.(New York Times, link)

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