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...gave the financially strapped Bell some $110,000 over three years in return for secret information about Hughes Aircraft radar and weapons systems. By the time the FBI got wind of the deal in 1980, Zacharski had already taught Bell to make his own film drops in Austria and Switzerland...
...flag operations." U.S. export restrictions prohibit the sale of sensitive equipment to the Warsaw Pact nations, but the Soviets have found willing channels abroad. West European businessmen will buy the desired hardware and export it to dummy European companies, which then reexport it to the Soviet Union. Austria and Switzerland, with relatively lax controls on imports, have become favored trading posts. Says an executive from one Silicon Valley company: "If every piece of equipment shipped to Vienna stayed there, the city would sink...
...Switzerland, customs officials called the matter "embarrassing." In Washington, the Commerce Department would not confirm that the case was under investigation, but expressed grave concern. In Moscow, KGB officials were believed to be jubilant over a victory on one of the newest frontiers of espionage: the theft of Western industrial technology...
...beginning, their performances were tragically unprofessional. OSS networks in Istanbul and Rome were penetrated by German agents. An anti-Nazi official who was slipping papers to Allen Dulles, Donovan's man in Switzerland, was mistakenly suspected of being a German double agent. Although Winston Churchill was a Donovan drinking buddy, the British undermined efforts to put OSS agents in the Balkans, Scandinavia, Burma, India and other places where their own agents were already at work...
...CERN team, which included physicists from Austria, Switzerland, the United States, Italy, France, and Britain, was able to produce the subparticle by accelerating protons and their antimatter twins, antiprotons, in opposite directions around an underground ring which lies beneath parts of France and Switzerland. The W particles were produced when the protons and antiprotons collided, creating a blast of energy in the ring, which is four miles in circumference...