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...Soviet embassy, knocks on the door and tells the Russians that you want to join up because you need some quick cash to pay off store bills, a mortgage and other debts. Preposterous? Not at all. That is precisely what happened to Royal Navy Sub-Lieut. David James Bingham, 31. Last week he was sentenced in a British court to 21 years in prison for selling to the Soviets for $5,520 defense secrets which, according to the British Attorney General, were "valuable almost beyond price...
...sentence was pronounced, Bingham's wife Maureen collapsed sobbing on the courtroom floor. Later British television viewers saw her talking at length with reporters in the Binghams' $30,000 home, surrounded by the sort of luxuries that had put the family $5,000 in debt-elegant red leather furniture, stereo phonograph, color television set. She claimed that she was the guilty party. "I nagged him into becoming a spy," said Maureen, who found it extremely expensive to try keeping up with the navy's social whirl. At the same time, however, she boasted that her husband...
...Single Bullet. While Jackson was being led across the landscaped courtyard, a white lawyer, Stephen M. Bingham, 29, was undergoing a search in the visitors' center. His briefcase was examined by guards; Bingham walked through a metal-detecting device. When Jackson arrived, the two men sat together at a small table and talked for about 30 minutes. Bingham then left the room, and Guard Frank DeLeon escorted Jackson across the prison yard back to the Adjustment Center...
...detail, and they alleged that a "dry run" had been made earlier in the month during a visit from Jackson's sisters, his niece and two nephews. Despite their purported knowledge of the escape plans, prison authorities took no extra precautions during Jackson's visit with Bingham. Normally, Jackson was handcuffed while seeing visitors; last week he was not, prison officials explained, because he had been "cooperative" in the past...
...long-too large not to be spotted immediately or indeed, it would seem, to be Carried in his hair as prison officials claimed. Later, spokesmen at San Quentin announced that the gun was concealed under a wig, which they said they had found in the cell block plumbing. Bingham, the nephew of New York Congressman Jonathan Bingham and the grandson of a former Connecticut Governor and Senator, was suspected of smuggling the gun into the prison inside a tape recorder. After leaving the prison, Bingham had lunch with another uncle. He then disappeared and has not been heard from since...