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1 _- . . L a . at Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/07 : CIA-RDP87M00539R000901 190016-2 SECR ET James Durward Harper, Jr.: Arrest and Conviction of a PIS Agent On May 14, 1984, James Durward Harper, Jr., a United States citizen, was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of espionage. FBI investigation had discovered that over a two-and-one-half-year period beginning in 1979, Harper delivered voluminous classified documents to officers of the PIS in Europe and Mexico. Included in these documents was extremely sensitive information relating to the Minuteman missile and the ballistic missile research and development programs of the United States. For his services Harper was paid in excess of $250,000 by the PIS. The Harper case marked the second time within three years that an American had been arrested for involvement with the PIS for espionage purposes (William Holden Bell was convicted in 1981 as a result of his espionage activities with Polish IO Marian W. Zacharski). The FBI learned in March, 198! that sensitive classified information concerning the Minuteman missile had been compromised to the PIS. The information was received from a confidential source who at that time was a high-ranking officer of the PIS stationed in Warsaw, Poland. (This fact was disclosed in the affidavit and subsequent court documents after Harper's arrest and arraignment; the source has since been exfiltrated successfully from Poland.) The source also reported that the classified information was furnished to the PIS by a retired American businessman who had been introduced to the Poles in Warsaw in October 1979. SECRET - 34 . ...-,- sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/07 : CIA-RDP87M00539R000901190016-2