Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 her husband-to-be into her office at a Silicon Valley defense subcontracting firm late at night and on weekends. He removes masses of papers and photocopies...
Water seeped into the papers while they were stashed away by the engineer-spy, so the pages are wet and stuck together. A team of Polish technicians works through the night to clean them up. The next day, 20 KGB agents who fly in from Moscow to inspect the documents at the Soviet embassy in Warsaw cannot contain their excitement: the papers provide details of a U.S. research-and-development project to protect the Minuteman arsenal from destruction by a Soviet nuclear strike. KGB Chief (now Soviet President) Yuri Andropov personally signs a letter of commendation to the Polish officials...
...piano bar called The Fling. Identifying himself only as "Jay," the engineer starts telling his story over Bloody Marys and proposes a deal: if the attorney, William Dougherty, can win a promise of immunity from the U.S. Government, the engineer will turn double agent and pass information on Polish-KGB espionage to the American...
Dougherty contacts CIA authorities about Jay, but it turns out they already know part of the story. A mole in Polish intelligence has told them about the sale of Minuteman secrets by "an American businessman." The CIA puts questions to Jay through Attorney Dougherty and receives answers that dovetail with the mole's account. Following up clues provided by the mole and unwittingly corroborated by Dougherty, the FBI comes up with a name for Jay: James Durward Harper...
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...