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...were the plot of a Le Carré thriller, the story might be dismissed as a mass of melodramatic clichés. But it happened in real life, and as related in the flat legalistic prose of an FBI affidavit filed in federal court in San Francisco and from the account of a West Coast lawyer, it goes like this: An American engineer who already had sold some low-grade U.S. defense secrets to Polish intelligence marries an alcoholic secretary who has one thing he needs: a security clearance to handle truly valuable documents. Before the wedding, she lets...
Hugle is named in the FBI affidavit as the man who first introduced Harper to Polish intelligence officials and was cut in on a deal under which Hugle allegedly was to get a third of the money paid by the Poles for the theft of U.S. defense secrets (the Poles, however, according to the affidavit, later told Harper they would prefer to bypass Hugle and deal with Harper directly). Attorney Dougherty says that Harper has been "scared to death that Hugle would kill him." Hugle has been charged with nothing; he is testifying before a grand jury...
According to the FBI affidavit, Harper in 1975 was introduced by Hugle, whom he called "the Big Man," to Polish intelligence officials. Hugle is described by one associate as "a good guy at putting deals together." The Poles had a portion of a "shopping list" of secrets that the Soviet KGB wanted, and still wants, to buy. The master list is said never to leave Moscow. Harper in 1975 turned over items of U.S. technological information. But they apparently were relatively minor: he was paid no more than $7,500 for them...
...After 21 months of marriage (her second, his sixth), brunette Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor told the judge about life with her clarinet-tooting husband, Artie Shaw. In 31 pages of searing affidavit, Kathleen swore that Artie had screamed at her, beaten her, come home "drunken, abusive, and belligerent." He had also tried out on her his favorite theory of domestic relations ("The only way to keep a woman in line-be a caveman"). "He boasted of having thrown Lana Turner [Mrs. Shaw No. 3] down a flight of stairs, and said that it improved their marriage considerably. He told...
...charges stemmed from an alleged attempt by Cianci to force a Bristol, R.I., contractor, Raymond DeLeo, to sign an affidavit saying that he had had an affair with Cianci's estranged wife Sheila before the two were divorced last March. The indictment charges that in a confrontation at his Providence town house on March 20, Cianci threatened to sue DeLeo for alienation of affection or to "put a bullet" in his head if DeLeo refused to pay the mayor an unspecified sum (DeLeo claims it was $500,000). At a press conference, Cianci characterized the incident as a simple...