CONVICTED SPY GAVE POLISH AGENT DETAILS OF STEALTH, B1 BOMBERS AND F15, CIA SAYS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2010
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• Publication Date: April 29, 1982
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29 April 1982
Convicted SP Gave Polish Agent Details
Of Stealth, BI Bombers and F15, CIA Says
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WASHINGTON - Warsaw pact intelli-
gence agencies have obtained classified de-
tails of the U.S. stealth and BI bombers.
the F15 fighter and other major American
weapons, the Central intelligence Agency
disclosed. t
The CIA, In a report made available at
the Pentagon, said a Polish agent was
handed secret information on these weapons
by William H. Bell, the former Hughes Air-
craft Co. engineer convicted of spying last
year. Z,
According to the report, called "Soviet
Acquisition of Western Technology," Bell
gave the agent, Marion Zacharski, more
than 20 "highly classified reports on ad-
vaned future U.S. weapons systems or their
components." The CIA said the information
"probably" also made its way to Soviet In.
Although the Bell case was widely'publi-
cized, a Pentagon spokesman said the CIA
report provides the first government ac-
counting of just how many sensitive U.S.
weapons were ..compromised by the engi-
neer.
Defense. Secretary Caspar Weinberger,
who has been campaigning for tighter secu-
rity in U.S. technology, ordered the report
distributed at the Pentagon. The CIA pre-
pared the document at- the request of a
House science. subcommittee chaired by
Rep. Albert Gore Jr. (D., Tenn.). -
-`, According. to the document, Bell handed
over information on the "quiet radar sys-
tem" to be used on both the $30 billion BI
bomber fleet and the top-secret. radar-evad-
ing stealth bombers.
Another highly secret U.S. radar weapon,
the "look-down shoot-down" system that
gives the F15 fighter an edge over Soviet ri-
vats, was also compromised by Bell, the re-
port says. -.
Other weapons whose classified details
were passed to the Polish agent, the CIA
said, included the Navy's premier air-to-air
missile, the Phoenix; the Patriot and Hawk
surface-to-air missiles; a submarine sonar
system, and radar systems for tanks and
ships.
"The Information in these documents put
in jeopardy existing weapons and advanced
future weapons of the U.S. and its allies,"
the report declared.
Poland and the U.S.S.R. will save
"hundreds of millions ? of dollars" in re-
search costs because they have the U.S. se-
crets, the CIA asserted, and will be able to
develop defenses against the compromised
weapons and field copies of them more
quickly.
The CIA said the Polish agency paid only
$110,000 for the information, despite its
much higher value to the Soviets. Bell, who
pleaded guilty in the case, was sentenced to
as long as eight years in prison and fined
$10,000. Zacharski drew a life sentence.
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