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...casual observer, William Holden Bell appeared to be the very model of a hardworking, leisure-loving Los Angeles suburbanite. A U.C.L.A.-trained radar engineer, Bell, 61, had put in 29 years with Hughes Aircraft Co., a major defense contractor once owned by the late Howard Hughes. Together with his pretty second wife Rita, a Belgian-born Pan American airlines cabin attendant, and her nine-year-old son from an earlier marriage, Bell lived in a fairly ordinary-looking condominium complex in Playa del Rey. It had the usual Southern California accouterments-tennis courts, pools, saunas and Jacuzzis...
...last week after six years of not-so-casually observing him, was an undercover operative for the Polish intelligence service. According to a court affidavit filed by the bureau, he had paid Bell about $110,000 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...
Gradually, Bell later confessed, his position became more compromised, and he was required to record more highly classified plans of advanced radar and weapons systems. Bell's involvement grew deeper still in late 1979, when Zacharski told him he would have to start delivering the film directly to Polish agents overseas. During the next year and a half, Bell made three trips to Austria and Switzerland, where Polish agents would identify themselves to him with the code phrase, "Aren't you a friend of Marian...
...unpersuasive, for there are too many questions that need answering first. Americans of conscience will always predicate support for the military on the belief that the nation's might will be used wisely, not immorally squandered. When that day comes, they will start to worry about the radar in our airplanes...
That protection comes from inquiring signals constantly emitted from TCAS-equipped planes. These radar-like pulses in effect create an electronic cocoon or bubble extending out in all directions from an aircraft for up to 22 nautical miles. If another plane pierces the bubble, its presence is almost instantly noted in the cockpit. In the cut-rate TCAS-I, an alert sounds and lights up. In the more complex TCAS-II, a cockpit screen not only displays the intruder's position (at 2 o'clock, say), distance and altitude but also tells the pilot whether to dive, climb...