The State - News from Nov. 4, 1987
A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted four men on eight counts of conspiring to sell supercomputer secrets to the Soviet Union. Three of the four, Kevin Eric Anderson, 36, Ivan-Pierre Batinic, 29, and Stevan Batinic, 30, all residents of the San Francisco Bay Area, were arrested Oct. 22 by federal law enforcement officials. Charles Julius McVey, 57, formerly of Anaheim, was arrested Aug. 19 in the Yukon Territory by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police after four years as a fugitive. He is being held in Vancouver, B.C. McVey, who was indicted in 1983 on separate charges of selling sensitive technology and equipment to the Soviet Union, is believed to be the mastermind behind the recent effort to sell technical information on the Saxpy MATRIX 1 super computer. The MATRIX 1 uses a radical new design which makes it more powerful for some applications than the CRAY-1 super computer.
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