Video of Hotel Meeting Shown at Spy Trial : Court-Martial: Marine told purported Soviet agent that he is half Indian and resents America’s treatment of Indians.

As he casually sipped a Coke and spat tobacco juice, embittered Marine Cpl. Charles Anzalone told a purported Soviet KGB agent he would pass military secrets because he hated capitalism and America’s treatment of the Indians.

“I have an Italian name, but I’m half Indian, so I have bitter resentment,” Anzalone, who is part Mohawk, said in an hourlong videotaped meeting with the agent that was played at his espionage court-martial Wednesday at Camp Pendleton.

At one point, KGB agent Mikhail Popov, who was actually FBI counter-intelligence agent Jan Zawitkowski, asked Anzalone whether he considered himself a Soviet sympathizer.

“Yessir,” replied the 24-year-old Marine from New York, “because I don’t like capitalism, because I don’t like America.”

Later during the clandestine taping in a Yuma, Ariz., hotel room, Anzalone told the agent that if the Soviets paid for him to attend college, “I think with the right education I could secure a job within the U.S. government” and “I could be of use to you at a later date.”

Anzalone, a wireman at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, faces a maximum life sentence if the military judge, Col. Edwin Welch, finds him guilty of numerous charges.

They include attempted conspiracy to commit espionage, failing to report contact with a citizen of a designated country, disclosing information to a person believed to be a foreign intelligence agent, using the mail to send unauthorized matter, adultery, and possession and use of marijuana.

Anzalone has been in the Camp Pendleton brig since his arrest Feb. 12 after a joint investigation by the FBI and the Naval Investigative Service. He pleaded not guilty when his general court-martial began Monday.

His defense attorney, Marine Capt. Paul McBride, contends Anzalone may have contacted the Soviet Embassy last November to naively inquire whether Soviet scholarships for college were available.

But afterward, argues McBride, the FBI pursued the Marine and entrapped him into becoming an embryonic spy.

Some of Wednesday’s testimony was taken in closed court, so it was never publicly explained how the FBI learned of Anzalone’s overture to the embassy.

However, phone conversations between Zawitkowski and Anzalone, and the hotel room videotape, depict a clear effort by the bogus Soviet agent to secure defense information.

After several phone discussions, Anzalone agreed to meet Zawitkowski at the hotel in Yuma last Dec. 20.

During the meeting, Zawitkowski asked what ordnance was guarded at the air station and Anzalone answered, air-to-air missiles and surface-to-air missiles. Asked if he knew the names of the weapons systems, Anzalone replied, “No, but I can easily find out.”

Asked to give information about what units had been deployed to the Persian Gulf, Anzalone had only sketchy details, but noted “our squadron sent out 135 people last week.”

Zawitkowski, referring to himself and his supposed KGB superiors, commented, “We think you’re not just anybody. We think you have possibilities.”

“I’m glad, sir,” the tall, muscular Marine responded.

At another point in the conversation, Zawitkowski asked again about missiles and Anzalone said, “I’ve heard they have nuclear weapons here.”

Pressed for additional details about deployed units, Anzalone said he had Marine acquaintances he could ask.

Anzalone, whose pregnant wife was away at the time in New York, also hinted he could try to glean information through his girlfriend in Yuma, who is married to another Marine stationed in the Gulf.

When the meeting ended, Zawitkowski began counting out cash and asked, “Do you think $100 is enough for talking to me tonight?”

“You’re the boss,” Anzalone said.

Zawitkowski gave him $200 cash, but asked the Marine to sign a receipt. A nervous Anzalone said, “I still can’t help to think maybe you’re NIS (Naval intelligence).”

After being told the two men must trust each other, Anzalone said, “Well, you only live twice, right Mike?” and signed the receipt.

In late January, Zawitkowski telephoned Anzalone and, according to a taped recording played in court, asked him to mail information about Marine guard schedules at the air base weapons area, and to send Anzalone’s old security badge that gave him access to the air field.

That information, and two technical manuals labeled “For Official Use Only,” was mailed and picked up by FBI agents.

During later testimony, the government’s prosecutors put Anzalone’s girlfriend, Anna Bloyd, on the stand. She acknowledged the two were lovers and said he often told her about disliking Caucasians and the government.

“He always said he hated white men,” said Bloyd, who was born in the Philippines, later adding that his bitterness was “because the American Army killed the Indians.”

She further testified: “He told me one time that he wanted to be a spy,” although under cross-examination by defense attorney McBride, she acknowledged that Anzalone never indicated whom he wanted to spy for.

During his questioning of government witnesses, McBride sought to show that information about units deployed to the Gulf was common knowledge. At one point, he showed a copy of the base newspaper, which contained an article about deployed units.

McBride contends that Anzalone didn’t pass along anything that wasn’t already available to the public.

In an exchange with Maj. Mary Ann Krusa-Dossin, provost marshal at the air station in Yuma, McBride got her to acknowledge that anybody passing the base on a nearby public road could see the guards at the weapons storage area and determine their strength and schedules.

He also produced testimony that, despite claims of security, there was a period when access to the flight area wasn’t restricted.

However, Krusa-Dossin insisted that a security badge falling into the wrong hands could pose a serious threat to the Yuma facility, which is the second-busiest airfield in the military service.

She was asked by the prosecuting attorney, Lt. Col. C.A. Ryan, whether the base would be an attractive target for terrorists. She replied, “Yes sir, no doubt about it.”

Anzalone’s court-martial is scheduled to resume today. A verdict may come by Friday.