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...charges focused on William Parkin and Fred Lackner, both private defense consultants, and Stuart E. Berlin, former head of the Navy's ship- engineering section at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. Court papers describe a scheme in which California's Teledyne Industries paid Parkin and Lackner to obtain confidential information about Government procurement plans for a system to identify military aircraft. They in turn bribed Berlin to turn over the information. Parkin was also charged with paying Berlin to help New York's Hazeltine Corp. win a contract for a radar test device. Hazeltine...
That is what the FBI wants to determine. Two weeks ago, agents armed with search warrants showed up at the offices of Hazeltine, Parkin, Lackner and Berlin to pore through their papers. A search warrant directed them to look for "bank accounts of Berlin in which payments from Lackner may have been deposited in connection with his criminal activities pertaining to Government contracts...
...What Lackner did have was even more valuable. In about 1971, while working for Northrop, he had met Stuart Berlin, then and now a Navy civil servant. They formed a close friendship that continued as Berlin rose to become a contracting official at the Naval Air Systems Command -- working on, among other things...
...while, all went well. A source who was involved says that Lackner supplied Hazeltine, through Parkin, with invaluable "market intelligence" on the Navy's needs for IFF gear, much of the information either internal or leaked before it was supposed to be made public. (Hazeltine denies receiving any inside dope.) Parkin, says TIME's source, did not bother to ask Lackner where he was getting his stuff; perhaps he did not want to know. Lackner acknowledges getting information about IFF from Berlin, but contends that he broke no laws...
...Lackner denies any criminal activities and says, "I never paid him ((Berlin)) anything." But he does not seem to have convinced the FBI. The agents who searched his home and office, Lackner told TIME, grilled him extensively about supposed payments to Berlin and played for him several secretly taped recordings of his telephone conversations. One call was placed by Lackner to Berlin from Parkin's house. Lackner insists he was only trying to arrange to have a cup of coffee with Berlin. Nonetheless, Berlin has been reassigned, and the uproar has held up the award of the IFF contract. Parkin...