Arthur Hatch Research, Inc.

Arthur Hatch Research, Inc. is a fictional business featured in the ABC television series The Bionic Woman. It appeared in the twelfth episode of season one titled, "The Jailing of Jaime". Arthur Hatch Research, Inc. was a technology development firm located in California, and was founded by industrialist Arthur Hatch. From 1973 to 1976, the company worked on engineering a device called a cryptograph analyzer. The cryptograph analyzer was developed by for the benefit of NATO's defense apparatus. It was designed to break into and decrypt any code in the world. The government invested forty million dollars and three years of Hatch's life to develop this device, but ultimately it didn't work. When it came time to present the item to the United States Air Force, Hatch decided to stage a theft.

With an assistant named John Naud, he arranged with the Office of Scientific Intelligence to have Jaime Sommers act as courier of the device from Hatch's research office to a secret base in the Mojave desert, where she was to deliver it to General Frank Partridge. Hatch had Naud impersonate Partridge and Jaime unwittingly handed the cryptograph analyzer to him. After which, Jaime was framed for the device's theft.