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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/07 : CIA-RDP87M00539R000901 190016-2 SECRET All the pieces of the investigative puzzle seemed to fit. Harper was the unknown American/client; through Schuler he had access to ballistic missile information. For arrest purposes, it was now necessary to catch Harper flagrante delicto with classified material, or at least locate documents in his possession. The FBI's technical coverage provided the answer to this problem. In a number of telephone conversations at his residence Harper mentioned that he had a "hutch" where he kept his "stash." Through repeated use of these words and others in Harper's strange jargon, it was speculated that the "stash" was a collection of Classified documents that Harper kept for potential future sale. When he stated during a conversation that he was on his way to the "hutch," FBI surveillance followed Harper to a commercial storage space. A later inspection of the storage space by the FBI provided the missing ingredient. Numerous classified SCI documents were located there, as well as meticulous diaries that detailed Harper's travels, meets, and payments in connection with his espionage activities. Harper was arrested on October 15, 1983, on charges of espionage. The principal IO in the operation was Zdislaw Przychodzien, a lieutenant colonel in the PIS under the cover of an official in the Polish Ministry of Machine Industry, Warsaw. As reported by the confidential source, Przychodzien had been assigned to the United States in the mid 1970's with the Polish Commercial Office in New York City. Przychodzien was not unknown to the FBI ~ he was the IO in Warsaw who directed the recruitment of U.S. citizen and PIS agent William Holden Bell. SECRET - 38 - ..--,- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/07 : CIA-RDP87M00539R000901190016-2 _.