POLISH SPY SENTENCED TO LIFE TERM IN PRISON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100510020-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: December 15, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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STAT
THE WASHINGTON POST
ON PAGE_.._-. 3 15 December 1981
AttTiGL APPEARED
Polish Spy Sentenced
To Life Term in Prison
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14 (UPI)-
Marian Zacharski, a Polish spy who
conspired to sell U.S. defense secrets
to the communist bloc, was sen-
tenced today to life in prison, and
William. Holden Bell, his Confessed
American accomplice, was given a
term of eight years.
Zacharski,. 30, had - been found
guilty after only two,.days. of jury
.deliberations.. Bell, 61,. a. radar sys.
tern expert at Hughes Aircraft Co.,
confessed to. one count of selling a
secret-, document to communist
agents after being promised a lesser
sentence.
Bell, the main prosecution wit-
ness, testified that he stole and pho-
tographed documents from Hughes
from late 1978 to April, 1981, and
turned them over to Zacharski and
other agents in exchange for gold
coins and cash.
STAT
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