On Apr 22, 11:59=A0am, Mike Roberts <M...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Army Vet Charged With Spying For Israel
>
> NEW YORK, April 22, 2008(CBS/AP) A former U.S. Army mechanical engineer
> was arrested Tuesday on charges he slipped classified documents about
> nuclear weapons to an employee of the Israeli Consulate who also
> received information from convicted Pentagon spy Jonathan Pollard,
> authorities said.
>
> Ben-ami Kadish was scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in
> Manhattan, where he was facing four counts of conspiracy, including
> allegations that he conspired to disclose U.S. national defense
> documents to Israel and that he acted as an agent of the Israeli
governmen=
t.
>
> A criminal complaint said the activities occurred from 1979 through 1985
> while Kadish worked at the U.S. Army's Armament Research, Development
> and Engineering Center in Dover, N.J.
>
> Investigators believe Kadish, a U.S. citizen, took home secret documents
> and let the Israeli government worker photograph them. The
> co-conspirator was employed by the government of Israel from 1980-1985,
> CBS News reports. Among the documents was one concerning nuclear
> weaponry, another concerning the F-15 fighter jet and a third, the U.S.
> Patriot Missile Air Defense System.
>
> According to the complaint, the Israeli government worker on numerous
> occasions between 1979 and 1985 provided Kadish with lists of U.S.
> national defense classified documents for Kadish to obtain.
>
> Prosecutors also brought conspiracy charges against Kadish alleging that
> he conspired to hinder a communication with a law enforcement officer
> and conspired to make a materially false statement to a law enforcement
> officer.
>
> Those charges stem from a March 20 conversation in which Kadish was told
> by the Israeli contact to lie to U.S. law enforcement agents, the
> complaint said.
>
> A day later, Kadish lied to FBI agents about his communications with the
> Israeli worker, the complaint said.
>
> Kadish was described in the complaint as a Connecticut-born man employed
> from October 1963 to January 1990 as a mechanical engineer at the Army's
> Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, where the research center is based.
>
> The complaint said the Israeli worker, who was not identified in court
> papers, was born in Israel and is an Israeli citizen.
>
> It said that in the late 1970s, the Israeli worker was employed at the
> Israeli Aircraft Industries in Israel, which since at least the late
> 1970s has been a defense manufacturing contractor for the Israeli
> government.
>
> =A0From July 1980 through November 1985, he lived in the Riverdale
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> of the Bronx and worked for the government of Israel as the consul for
> science affairs at the Israeli Consulate General in Manhattan, the
> complaint said.
>
> The complaint noted that Pollard was charged in November 1985 with
> espionage-related offense after he provided classified information to
> the same Israeli worker, among other people.
>
> The Israeli worker left the United States in November 1985 and has not
> returned, the complaint said.
>
> Pollard, a former civilian intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navy,
> pleaded guilty when he was standing trial for transferring military
> secrets to Israel while working at the Pentagon. He is serving a life
> sentence in a U.S. federal prison.
>
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> Press contributed to this report.
At this time our Defense Dept. is investigating additional current
cases of spys working for Israel. Yet Uncle Suckone keeps sending aid!
ted
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