Under a preliminary agreement, the first contingent of 26 Lockheed employees reported to the Everett plant today.

He moved the money through a fake company and Lockheed employees assigned to the project traveled under fictitious names.

The Cosmic Wind was designed and built by a group of Lockheed employees, including Tony LeVier.

"I think we can get 80 percent of the vote" for the three-seat proposal, he said, excluding the Lockheed employees who have shares through the company's employee stock ownership plan.

So for half a day, they did a point-and-grunt tour until they were lucky enough to find a Lockheed employee who could speak Chinese.

A jury awarded $45 million to three former Lockheed employees who claimed they were wrongfully fired after raising questions about the safety of cargo jets.

The Lockheed employees included Clarence "Kelly" Johnson and Robert E. Gross.

In the suit, Joseph Banks, a Lockheed employee who still works for the company, said a hangman's noose was placed in his work area last summer.

The pilot, co-pilot and a Lockheed employee on the ground were killed; the plane's stewardess and one passenger were seriously injured.

If the plaintiffs and the commission prevail, and the lawsuits are expanded into class actions, they could cover thousands of black Lockheed employees nationwide, a spokesman for the agency said.