ACCUSED SPY LINKED TO POLAND CONVICTED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100510022-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: November 17, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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STAT
ARTICLE APPEARED
ON P AGE
THE WASHINGTON POST
17 November 1981
Accused Spy Linked
To Poland Convicted
STAT
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16-A man depicted by
the government as a cunning Polish intelligence
officer was convicted today of conspiring to have
sensitive U.S. defense information passed to Po-
land.,.;:,
A Los Angeles federal court jury deliberated
two days before returning the verdict against Mar-
ian: W_ Zacharski, 30; who could be sent to prison:
for, life when he is sentenced Dec. 14. Zacharski, former' West Coast representative of
the Polish American Machinery Corp., was found
guilty of conspiring with a Hughes Aircraft Co.
radar engineer to have film of national defense
documents delivered, to Polish agents at clandes.
tine meetings in Europe:;;?
The government's case rested largely on the tes
timony of William Holden Bell,' 61:-'a former:
Hughes engineer who met Zacharski in:-1977 while
they were neighbors -at a: Southerii'California
apartment complete .? _Y VJ
Bell, who has pleaded guilty to espionage, tes
tified that he was financially strapped"and agreed
to take documents from Hughes for gold and.cash.
He said that he was.paid about $95,000.for var-
ious information,.some of it secret, dealing with_a
sophisticated-antitank weapon,.a highly advanced
radar system and other military hardware:
After the government called 48- witnesses, de-
fense attorney EdwardM. Stadum:restedhis case
without a word -of testimony. He said in final ar-
gument that Hell offered to cooperate in hopes it.
would lighten his sentence and that his testimony
was unworthy of belief: Stadum said.the verdict
would be appealed. ,
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