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Army Spy Arrest Has Ties to Pollard Case

Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball write on Newsweek.com:

In a bizarre postscript to a two-decade-old spy scandal, the FBI on Tuesday arrested an 84-year-old former U.S. Army civilian engineer and charged him with providing classified defense documents to Israel.

The alleged crimes that led to the arrest of Ben-Ami Kadish took place between 1979 and 1985, when Kadish, a U.S. citizen, worked at the Army's Picatinny Arsenal—a weapons research center in northern New Jersey. But the most intriguing part of the case may have less to do with Kadish, the accused octogenarian American spy, than his alleged Israeli "handler."

According to court documents unsealed Tuesday, Kadish's alleged handler turns out to be the same Israeli consular official in New York who also allegedly served as a "control" agent for Jonathan Pollard, the notorious former Navy intelligence analyst and convicted spy whose case cast a cloud over U.S.-Israeli relations for years.

posted by Fergie @ 4/22/2008 09:00:00 PM