EUROPE A JOLLY NICE CHAP AT FIRST MEETING, FEW WOULD HAVE GUESSED 
THAT GIUSEPPE MARTELLI'S LINE OF WORK WAS TRACING THE TRAJECTORIES OF 
STRONGLY ACCELERATED NUCLEAR PARTICLES . TALLER (6 FT . 1 IN.) 
AND HANDSOMER THAN MOST OF HIS SCIENTIFIC COLLEAGUES, MARTELLI, 39, SPOKE 
FLUENT RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH, AND COULD EVEN MAKE A CERTAIN AMOUNT 
OF SMALL TALK . SON OF A WORLD WAR I ITALIAN 
GENERAL, HE HAD STUDIED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ROME AND PISA'S 
INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS, WHERE HE SPECIALIZED IN COSMIC RAY RESEARCH . 
LATER, HE WAS HIRED BY EURATOM, EUROPE'S COMMUNAL ATOMS-FOR-PEACE AGENCY, AND 
WENT OFF TO BRUSSELS, LEAVING HIS WIFE MARIA AND THEIR TWO 
CHILDREN BEHIND IN PISA . AN EXPERT ON THERMONUCLEAR POWER AND 
A JOLLY NICE CHAP, MARTELLI CAME TO THE ATTENTION OF A 
BRITISH PHYSICIST, THROUGH HIM WON A PLACE ON THE 600-MAN TEAM 
WORKING ON LONG-TERM FUSION RESEARCH AT CULHAM LABORATORY IN THE COTSWOLDS 
. THERE, IN ROOM 103, GIUSEPPE SPENT HIS DAYS IN PURE 
RESEARCH, THE KIND OF SCIENCE THAT IS NOT EXPECTED TO YIELD 
CONCRETE RESULTS UNTIL THE 1980S ; LIKE ALL EURATOM PROJECTS, IT 
INVOLVED NO CLASSIFIED INFORMATION . AFTER A FEW WEEKS IN ENGLAND, 
GIUSEPPE SET UP HOUSE AMONG A GROUP OF SCIENTISTS IN NEARBY 
ABINGDON . RETURNING TO LONDON LAST WEEK FROM ONE OF HIS 
FREQUENT TRIPS TO BRUSSELS, GIUSEPPE ENRICO GILBERTO MARTELLI WAS GRABBED AT 
THE AIRPORT BY SCOTLAND YARD'S SPECIAL BRANCH AND FORMALLY ACCUSED OF 
VIOLATING BRITAIN'S OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT . THE WORDING OF THE CHARGE 
SUGGESTED THAT HE WAS ACCUSED ONLY OF PREPARING TO TRANSMIT SECRET 
INFORMATION TO " AN ENEMY . " BRITONS WONDERED IF THEY 
WERE IN FOR YET ANOTHER INSTALLMENT IN THE SERIES OF ESPIONAGE 
SCANDALS THAT HAVE BEEN MAKING HEADLINES FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS . 
