FEARED POLES MIGHT 'ELIMINATE' HIM, CONFESSED SPY SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000707380010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 12, 2011
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 24, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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LOS ANGELES TIMES
2I+ OCTOBER 1981
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day that he became apprehensive snforma+ibn *o'Po1i,h:;'; .__._ r_.,
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to estifiedtliathewas
a second' ` paid $7WUon.p,ashe
Hug" es Aircraft Co. enginear, told a day... b ,Assistant U.$:t Ally Robert had been on each of the first two andwouid be again on
federal -court jury In-.1,64.A geles :, .S. Brewer';-`' 3r ; ?Bell told of;=a a later rendezvous with the same.ag~ent in Geneva. Iii
that he was afraid he had ;not ' de --1-1-Spooky"-trip he tob~C:{Bl~us= d Polish,agents had given ivm;a code-T1 =~ ?Jack=?
livered" : on ? his promises to' the tria, Ira October of 1580: I3e said this on? and told him to call a Warsawpbonernsm
age. is and "might'have?. t~utlived f was the third of four hips he made ~~) he happened to be in ?~' Ems
dormatiori to EPe and-bad any is
ny csefulnets." to Europe with Zzcha`s'ci's co..: n' . Passalong.::
Bell, 61, is the government s chief ,city fb delivei; films of U.S'defense i~: Bell said he first.. concealer '-his reIations,.up'? tb:s
witness at the espionage trial of Ma- c;docttirtertts'to' agents: of the-Polish iZacharsl is Later the same day, t o sai
rian -W.. Zacharski,.30, a Polish.na--,'people's- Repu:Zachars':ci :was = , d. an had pBI defec n d to
-that a Polish-1worIker in the/UN. had defected told,
to .Wet ; Coast, representati~te: of the the United Statesand had ihdicated.that-documents;:
Polish.Arierican Machinery. Co.,;were beimgpassed'{oPoland_y:-
and he and Bell lived at the same+.`:Bell said he."safback, thought-atioi~t
apartment: complex 'in Playa del fun confessionc''I had c onside: ed n'? and sstzds: -It
?., he said. ? -earner turning myse
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Bell testl fie'd that he was rrtet in The trial will resume Tu aR Bell is eanected to be=
Linz by d pate young agent he'had onthestandat-least twonio-eday, .
seen on his two previous trips. Bell ?
-said`tliey hadCoffee,:theh walked'
through ti 'park above a river run- j
Ring throigh ? Linz.';Aniong -`other
`?things, tie said; the agent "asked if I _
.reuld-get a video colatwhicti
he said.was i+art of the cruise;iiissile
. (and) I said 1 tvasr;'t familiar With
..tha - Cruise inidsile but would look
Bell said he.was nervous. He salt
he'had giver! the agent more film, as
promised, and that it included pho..
tos of secret'docuinents,.but he was
afraid the Poles4anted:riore,than1
,jihad delivered ;, ~,;,;,.~
;ti'~- ite- he=and; tlie,agent;,Were1
taikirg,'he.Saidy,he.spotted a manj
w lking down, the,hill',from ?them
and the mart" ducker! hishead"
n the
titisres", on, xE:aIiziiig; fie; nad been
ell?said the agept told him not:to'
;a'pry;.ri'_e agent saidlie rias_cer-
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