Marian Zacharski

Marian Zacharski was a Polish Intelligence officer arrested in 1981 and convicted of espionage against the United States. After four years in prison, he was exchanged for American agents on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge. He returned to Poland, and has since been accused of flagrant mismanagement of a state company and illegal car trading. [1]

Espionage

MARIAN ZACHARSKI, president of the Polish American Machinery Corporation (POLAMCO), lived in the United States from 1977-1981.

Zacharski in reality was an officer of the Polish intelligence service, at that time spying for soviets, as Polish Peoples Army was an Army taking orders from the russian trained Generals, many of them highly trained KGB agents, pretending to be the heads of Polish People's Army. BELL, WILLIAM HOLDEN, project manager of the Radar Systems Group at Hughes Aircraft in El Segundo, California, and MARIAN ZACHARSKI, were arraigned in June 1981 on espionage charges.

Under the guise of business activities, and over a period of several months, Marian Zacharski developed a relationship with Bell. According to a court affidavit filed by the bureau, he had paid Bell about $150,000 over the past three years to photograph highly classified documents detailing Hughes Aircraft radar and weapons systems. The film was passed to Polish agents and ultimately, it is believed, to the Soviet Union. As a result, the “quiet radar” and other sophisticated systems developed at Hughes Aircraft were seriously compromised. BELL, WILLIAM HOLDEN, project manager of the Radar Systems Group at Hughes Aircraft in El Segundo, California confessed and agreed to cooperate with the FBI in the effort to apprehend Zacharski.

On 14 December, Zacharski was convicted of espionage received a life sentence, prohibition to enter US where he still is a condemed felon and consequently there is a warrant for his arrest upon the entry to the US. In June 1985 Zacharski was exchanged, along with three other Soviet Bloc spies, for 25 persons held in Eastern Europe. This case is seen as a classic example of recruitment of cleared US personnel for espionage by hostile intelligence operatives under the technics and training of KGB.

Marian Zacharski a former Polish spy who once received a life sentence in the United States has been put in charge of Poland's intelligence! The Internal Affairs Ministry on or about August 12, 1994 appointed Marian W. Zacharski to be Poland's intelligence chief. Three days after his appointment was rejected by than President of Poland, Lech Walesa who said it jeopardized relations with the United States and Warsaw's new ties with the West. He formally resigned and The Internal Affairs Ministry said it would accept the resignation from Poland's intelligence chief appointment.

Among other things, Zacharski won access to material on the then-new Patriot and Phoenix missiles, the enhanced version of the Hawk air-to-air missile, radar instrumentation for the F-15 fighter, F-16, "stealth radar" for the B-1 and Stealth bomber, an experimental radar system being tested by the U.S. Navy, and submarine sonar.

According to Kenneth Kaiser, an agency counterintelligence supervisor in Chicago, Poland is particularly active in the pirating of corporate data. "While the Soviet KGB gets all the press, Polish intelligence is perhaps superior. They, however, could care less about military intelligence; they want economic and scientific secrets. Their objective is to short-circuit development costs and undersell us." And, as the Zacharski case suggests, they are good at finding friends in the right places. Consequently all data obtained by polish intelligence and counter intelligence soon or later was transfered to

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