[progchat_action] Pollard prosecutor: NY spy arrest shows Israel lied to U.S.
 
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:49:36 -0500 (CDT)



Pollard prosecutor: Latest NY spy arrest shows Israel lied to U.S.

The Associated Press
 April 23, 2008

New York: The arrest of a man accused of passing U.S. military secrets to
the same Israeli handler as convicted spy Jonathan Pollard confirms that the
espionage ring was larger than previously believed and that the Israelis
lied about it, a former prosecutor said.

"The similarities are quite eerie," said Joseph E. diGenova, the U.S.
attorney who oversaw the 1980s-era Pentagon spy scandal that ensnared
Pollard.

A criminal complaint filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court "clearly
indicates there were other Americans being asked at other military
installations to do the same things the same way," diGenova said. "This was
a much larger espionage operation with sleeper cells in the United States
than we understood or could have known at the time."

Ben-Ami Kadish, an 84-year-old U.S. Army veteran, was arrested Tuesday and
charged with conspiracy. Prosecutors said he confessed to FBI agents that in
order to help Israel, he gave his Israeli contact between 50 and 100
classified documents between 1979 and 1985, including information about
America's nuclear weapons, fighter jets and missiles.

Kadish worked then as a mechanical engineer at the Army's Armament Research,
Development and Engineering Center in Dover, New Jersey. His lawyer, Bruce
Goldstein, declined to comment Wednesday.

DiGenova said the charges can be brought so long after the fact because the
case can be viewed as a continuing conspiracy based on communications
between Yagur and Kadish.

"He was an agent in place then, and he's an agent in place now," he said.

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Associated Press Writer Matti Friedman in Jerusalem contributed to this
report.

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