The State - News from April 5, 1985

Silicon Valley spy figure John P. Stouffer has been indicted by a federal grand jury in San Francisco on charges of illegal flight to avoid prosecution. The Santa Clara man, named by confessed spy James D. Harper as one of seven people who had agreed to help pass defense secrets to Soviet Bloc agents, vanished in February after pleading guilty to income tax evasion charges in U.S. District Court. He failed to pay taxes on $61,000 he earned in 1979 and 1980 from the sale of electronic parts. Stouffer had been free on $2,500 bond while awaiting sentencing. Stouffer, 57, has not been charged in the spy case, in which nuclear weapons defense data was sold to Polish agents.