Marian Zacharski

Marian Zacharski (* 1951) was an agent of the Polish Ministry of the Interior at the time of the Cold War.

Life

Zacharski came in 1975 as the official representative of a Polish export company Polish - American Machinery Company ( Polamco ) in the United States. Unofficially, he was an agent of the 1st Department of the Polish Ministry of Interior. He was placed in the vicinity of the highly indebted employee of Hughes Aircraft Corporation, William Bell.

Bell handed Zacharski for 110,000 U.S. dollars and gold coins worth $ 60,000 secret information and plans on missile defense systems Hawk and Patriot, as well as information about the stealth technology of the Rockwell B-1 bomber, plans of the fighter F -15 and the tank M1 Abrams.

In 1981 the FBI by a Polish employee of the United Nations, who had fled to the United States, informed of the activities of the Polish agents. The FBI took Zacharski established on 23 June 1982. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. In June 1985, he was replaced on the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin together with two other Eastern European agents against 25 Western agents and political prisoners. The exchange was mediated by Wolfgang Vogel.

1990 Zacharski played an important role in the operation Simoom.