Word: bossard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each case has brought another examination of security procedures, and two trials last week at the Old Bailey were no exception. In one, Aviation Ministry Engineer Frank Bossard, 52, was sentenced to 21 years for photographing and selling, since 1961, heaps of missile data to the Soviets for $14,000. In another case, a Defense Ministry clerk. Sergeant Percy Allen, 33, got ten years for peddling data on Israeli arms to Iraq and Egypt...
...difficulty had been an overzealous concern with spies' legal rights, which prevented government officials from investigating suspected leaks until the courts rendered a verdict. The government's fear was that an announcement of an investigation might bias prospective jurors or witnesses. Nonetheless, three hours after Bossard's conviction, Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced in Commons that in the future, government employees will be grilled as soon as a lapse is discovered, though results will be kept private until after the trial. "It is not enough, once the horse has bolted, to have a high-level inquiry...