US engineer ’spied for Israel’
22/4/08
USA authorities have arrested an engineer on suspicion of passing classified defence information to Israel during the 1980s, according to the justice department. Ben-Ami Kadish is suspected of passing nuclear weapons and air defence information to Israel while working as a mechanical engineer at an army base in New Jersey. Court papers say Kadish’s spying took place between 1979 and 1985, although he maintained contact with an Israeli offical until this year.
See: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/578C1CC1-9B53-4B98-85E0-B201A47B739E.htm
New espionage affair may be old story, but will greatly damage Israel
Yossi Melman; 22/4/08
The new U.S.-Israel espionage affair revealed Tuesday is in fact an old story. Nothing in this fact, however, can reduce the gravity of damage it will cause Israel, nor lead to expectations that suspect Ben-Ami Kadish’s punishment will be eased - if he is indeed to be convicted in a court of law. One can draw a number of conclusions from this affair: To begin with, the memory of American law and justice is very long and will not leave alone a violation even if a quarter of a century has passed. This is known to Colonel (res.) Aviam Sela, who was involved in the recruitment of Jonathan Pollard (a U.S. citizen jailed for spying for Israel), and Yaakov Nimrodi who was involved in the “Irangate” affair (the sale of weapons to Iran). Both of these men fear arrest in the United States should they travel there.
See: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/977085.html