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...such terms did the defense attorney for Irvin C. Scarbeck, 41, a former U.S. embassy official in Poland, describe his client last week. Scarbeck's inner softness led him to lift thin, black-haired Urszula Discher, 22, "up from the gutter," take her as his mistress and then protect her from public disclosure by feeding secrets to Communist agents who had photographed them in bed together...
...Washington jury was more concerned with Scarbeck's confessions, found him guilty of passing classified information to Polish agents. Scarbeck's wife stayed loyal: "I plan to stick by him." Sentencing was deferred, but Karen Scar-beck's wait may be ten years long...
...onetime night student at C.C.N.Y. and N.Y.U., Scarbeck came to the State Department in 1952 after serving on the staff of the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. He worked in Washington and then in San Francisco, where he won an award for "meritorious service, loyalty and devotion to duty" for his efforts while in charge of the foreign students' exchange program. In 1958 he was sent to Warsaw as general services officer of the American embassy. His duties were essentially those of an office manager, supervising Polish help, taking care of travel arrangements, typewriters, stationery, and such mundane matters...
...hard worker. Scarbeck was well liked by embassy hands; about 30 of them went with him to the Warsaw airport last fortnight when he was ordered back to Washington for what seemed a preparation to transfer to Naples. In Warsaw Scarbeck seemed to care little for politics, enjoyed music and taking drives with his family through the Polish countryside. But he had at least one other consuming interest: a petite Polish brunette who wore Parisian-style clothes, hung out in the better Warsaw cafes and was in fact in the pay of the UB, the Polish secret police. Scarbeck...
...likelihood, Scarbeck told the Reds little of real value. Although he could read files up to those classified as secret, top-secret documents were inaccessible to him. U.S. security officers say his informing was largely limited to casually acquired, uncertain dope and did not include information on current political maneuvers or military secrets. Still, Scarbeck's disclosures cannot be passed over too lightly, since the bulk of espionage is the accumulation of many bits and pieces, such as those that he furnished, in a total picture of enemy operations. Scheduled to go before a federal grand jury this week...