POLE GUILTY IN SPY CONSPIRACY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100510021-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: November 17, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/06/23: CIA-RDP90-00552R000100510021-3
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17 November 1931
bpy.. consac,
Convicted of Helping
Pass U.S. Defense Data.`_
ARL S MAKER,,
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Staff Writer","'.
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?VA man depicted'by-the gO ri i =l
meiik'ax. a - cunning - Polish' inteI
'Iigeace,of8cer was convicted Mon
'day`af coaspiri.ag to have sensitive
S 'defense: information. passed' to
" he Polish People's Repubti~, =x: ri
_;'A'f os'Angeles federal'court.-- y
deliberated two days before return
ing'--;-the verdict = against "Marian
Zacharski. 30. who could? be senttto
prisonforlife. ?' f.=~
Zacharsld;: former?West .Coast
'representative of the Polish Amerf-
can: 'Machinery- Corp:;'.was .: found
guilty" of 'conspir'ing with aHughes
Aircraft Ca radar engineer.to-have
film, ofnational defense documents
delivered to Polish agents. at clad
destine meetings in
't-Zacbarski sat impassively-as:the
verdict was read in the court of L.S.
District-Judge David V. Kenyon: A
few:miautesearher. as-thejury re-'
turned to court from its delrberatirni<
room; Zacharskt turned and smiled .
at hisattorney, Edward I+ Stadium..
Stadum said.theverdict-will be 7I
appealed... ;~_ ... ;
The' government's ;:case rested
lnrgelyon-the testimony of William
Holden.Bell, 61, a former.Hughes
engineer who meLZacharsld in 19i'7.
.while,--the
y, were neighbors, . at: a
Playa del Hey apartment complex,'j
Bell, who has ' pleaded guilty to
espionage, testified that because he
was financially strapped,he agreed
td take Hughes documents. He-said
,I a was paid- abait $xi fl00?--for., a!
variety of information-some;of..it
secret-dealing with a sophistieat
hardware.
Assistant.*:
,tiAttyw ert'i
Brewer Jr. had?told the j ii final'
argument that:thealleg onspi.-a
cy was aimed