From The Times April 24, 2008
US Army veteran accused of passing classified nuclear secrets to Israel
James Bone and Sheera Frenkel
The arrest of an octogenarian US Army veteran in a decades-old spying case has aroused suspicions that Israel maintained a wider espionage network in the US than ever acknowledged.
Ben-Ami Kadish, 84, who lives in a retirement community in New Jersey, was charged on Tuesday with leaking American secrets about nuclear arms, the Patriot missile defence system and the F15 fighter jet to Israel in the early 1980s.
Prosecutors said that Mr Kadish had confessed to allowing an Israeli diplomat to photograph more than 35 classified documents, from 1979 to 1985, while working as a mechanical engineer at the US Army’s Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. The case alleges that a second Israeli spying operation was running alongside that of Jonathan Pollard, the US naval intelligence analyst arrested in 1985 and jailed for life for passing military secrets to the Jewish state.
Court papers say that Mr Kadish reported to the same handler as Pollard, a scientific attaché at the Israeli Consulate in New York who left the US after Pollard’s arrest.
The US-born Mr Kadish, who fought with the Jewish Haganah against British rule in Palestine, took small gifts and occasional dinners but no cash for the information he provided, court papers claim.
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