POLISH BUSINESSMAN, ACCUSED AS SPY, GOES ON TRIAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100510027-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: October 22, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

STAT Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/06/23: CIA-RDP90-0
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22 October 1931
Poizsi2 s. , Accuse y 'GO s on `pi a ~I
1 r' pleaded
Hughes Aircraft engineer, p ward Stadum, who for days has sought
Bye CUMMINGS guilty to one count of espionage on the unsuccessfully to have the trial delayed.
special cial taThe Now YWftrimd' eve of trial. Mr. B ell. who has been coop- Mr. Stadum has protested that he has
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21 - The de- erating with the Government, could be been unable to get expert witnesses to
Tense argument was a simple,.depictino sentenced to a maximum of. 10 years in interpret the technical data at the core
-the accused as' a dedicated young busi- prison and fined $10,000. of the case. Those familiar with the sub-
ressman bent on obtaining "harmless" - Mr. Zacharski is accused of having jet Mr. Stadurn said, either worked for
information for his company. The prose- paid Mr. Bell $110,000 in cash and gold the Government or for companies with
volving more than 40 witnesses, some of for "secret" and "classified" ` docu- potential witness s told him, "Your client
them ranking military and intelligence meets about some of the company's lat- ought to beshot
specialists, to show- that the "business- est weapons and radar systems. He was 71n _ -:4
man" was a Polishagent engaged in es- indicted on two counts of conspiring to i . The lawyer, by etap?iasfziisg what he
pionage against = the--interests of the gather and deliver military information called Mr. Bell's "monumental" self-in-
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United States. tothePolishGovernment terest in seeing Mr> Zacharski convict
the r nt
- istant ed sou
ht to portra
g
y
W. Zacharski. a Polish citizen accused
of paying a former Hughes Aircraft en-
to turn over secret information
related to national security.
The case has gained widespread at='
tention as an example-of what Gove
meet officials describe as an increasing
flow of United States military secrets to
Soviet-bloc countries. It is also, in this
view, illustrative of what officials have
termed serious lapses of- security. iii
many defense-related industries
Former Co-defendant to Testify z t;
Mr. Zacharski went on trial wither
the American co-defendant with whom
.he was indicted on espionage charges in
June.. William Holden' Bell, a former
;United States Attorney prosecuting the