Wednesday, October 19,1983/The Battalion/Page 9
Secret Agent
Wife passed classified secrets to Soviet spies
United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO — The
wife of accused spy James Har
per gave him highly classified
U.S. missile secrets allegedly
sold to Soviet agents during a
“marriage of convenience”
|hich ended in divorce before
she died of alcoholism, court re
cords showed.
The FBI said Harper, 49, a
high technology consultant in
California’s “Silicon Valley,”
passed along “extremely sensi
tive” secrets to Moscow which he
jot for a period of eight years
roni his wife.
Hitman admits murders
Ruby Schuler, who died last
June at the age of 39, worked at
Systems Control Inc. in Palo
Alto, Calif., from 1972 until Au
gust 1982 and had access to vir
tually all of the firm’s top secret
documents.
FBI agents quoted her as tell
ing a friend three months prior
to her death that “there was a
reason Jim and I got married
and only he and I know.” The
friend told agents Mrs. Harper
added, “I can’t tell you or any
one else what those reasons were
and I never will.”
Authorities indicated the
1980 marriage could have been
strictly a business arrangement.
The couple traveled together to
a number of European cities
where Harper could have met
Soviet agents. The last trip was
in 1981 and they were later di
vorced.
Harper, accused of selling
Minuteman missile secrets to the
Soviets for $250,000, remarried
for a third time in Nevada last
month. His wife, Penny Cook,
vanished from their apartment
last Sunday.
The FBI complaint against
Harper quoted John Cunning
ham, a U.S. Army ballistics mis
sile expert, as placing the value
of the stolen secrets “beyond cal
culation.”
Santa Clara County records
show that Ruby Schuler died last
June 22 of cirrhosis of the liver
due to alcoholism. The records
said she weighed 80 pounds at
the time of her death, compared
with her normal 128 pounds.
Harper said in court Monday
he intended “to cooperate with
the government in every way I
can.” He was ordered held with
out bond and a preliminary
hearing is set for Oct. 27.
New commuter airlines
established for Texas
United Press International
AUSTIN — The Texas Aero
nautics Commission Tuesday
certified three new commuter
airlines for the state, including
two passenger helicopter ser
vices in the Dallas-Fort Worth
area.
The commission also
approved changes in service for
four other intrastate air carriers.
The new commuter services
include Lone Star Helicopters,
Inc., which plans to establish
scheduled passenger service be
tween the Fort Worth Continen
tal Helipad, Dallas Love Field,
Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Air-
port and the Dallas Reunion
Center Helipad.
A second helicopter carrier,
Regional Helicopter Airlines,
was given authority to serve D-
FW Regional Airport, Dallas
North Airport, Addison Air
port, Dallas Market Center Heli-.
pad and Fort Worth Heliport. >
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MADISON — A San Antonio
man charged with killing the
wife of a policeman has admit
ted five to 10 contract killings,
Assistant District Attorney
Stephen Bablitch said Tuesday.
Bablitch made the statement
at the initial court appearance of
Joseph M. Hecht III. Hecht, 23,
was charged with first degree
murder and armed burglary in
the shooting death of Carolyn
Hudson, 37, Friday.
|| Bablitch said the five to 10
"contract executions” took place
“in various jurisdictions.” He
said Hecht received about
$10,000 for each one.
The criminal complaint
against Hecht said he told Madi
son police he was paid $9,300 for
the Hudson killing. Hecht was
held on $375,000 cash bail, and
bail for Andrew Slickman, 31,
who allegedly drove the getaway
car, was set at $175,000.
Slickman, also from San
Antonio, was charged with
being a party to first degree
murder and armed burglary.
Authorities would not com
ment on who hired Hecht to slay
Carolyn Hudson, the wife of
Bullock expects
budget in black
irt
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klJSTIN — Comptroller Bob
Bullock, slapping down earlier
fears of a budget deficit as high
as$500 million, predicted Tues
day the state treasury will be
$15.1 million in the black at the
end of the 1984-1985 budget
period.
^“The worst of the state’s eco
nomic slump is behind us,” Bul
lock said in presenting his re
vised revenue estimate to state
officials and legislators.
“There aren’t any pennies
from heaven in this economic
forecast, but there aren’t any
hailstones either,” he said.
Last summer, state budget
officials expressed fears that
dwindling oil and gas severance
taxes and sales tax collections
could leave the state with a $500
million shortfall in a $30.8 bil
lion two-year budget period.
Bullock said his revised re
venue estimates showed oil sev
erance taxes were up slightly
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Officer James Hudson.
The complaint against Hecht
says he told police he shot
Carolyn Hudson five times in
the chest. Asked if the shooting
was intentional, the complaint
stated that “Hecht smiled and
said, ‘I intentionally shot her five
times in the chest.’”
According to the complaint,
Hecht said he entered through
an unlocked front door and saw
Hudson standing near a door
way to a bedroom. He said he
recognized her from pictures
provided by an unidentified
man who hired him to do the
killing.
Hecht said she screamed, and
he fired a shot that knocked her
back into the bedroom. When
she was on the floor, he fired
four more times.
Slickman was arrested at the
Dane County Regional Airport
after someone spotted the
license plate of the getaway car
and reported it to police. Hecht
was arrested in a Milwaukee bus
depot.
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over previous estimates as were
franchise and insurance taxes.
Sales tax receipts and natural
gas severance taxes were down,
and the state lost $27 million
from tax credits to insurance
companies to offset losses from
Hurricane Alicia.
Gov. Mark White, whose poli
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by Bullock in past weeks, said he
was pleased with Bullock’s
money predictions but believed
“we have a little work yet to do.”
“What we really are looking
for is some additional funds for
(pay raises for) school teachers
as well as for equalization aid
(for school districts),” the gov
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