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Sat 21 Nov, 2009 08:30 am
Does anyone know the denouement of the Israeli spy ring arrest last April?
It seems there was an 84-year-old Jewish man charged with passing secrets to an Israeli agent which caused speculation that more Americans may have been serving Israeli intelligence than previously thought.
Jonathan Pollard, a Jewish civilian intel analyst for the U.S. Navy, was arrested by FBI agents in Washington, D.C. in 1985 and pleaded guilty to spying charges, receiving a life sentence.
Now, retired U.S. military engineer, Benjamin Kadish faces similar charges.
The link between Pollard and Kadish is a now-defunct Israeli intel agency enigmatically known as the Scientific Relations Office. The office was run by Rafi Eitan, a former officer in the Mossad spy agency who is now an octogenarian Israeli cabinet minister in charge of pensioners' affairs.
Kadish and Pollard allegedly had the same handler, Yosef Yagur, "an intel officer under diplomatic cover" serving as an attache in Israel's New york consulate but covertly attached to Eitan's office, said Israeli intel expert Yossi Melman.
"For years, Israel was involved in technological espionage in the U.S.," Melman said. "Kadish and Pollard were not the only ones."
The prosecutor who oversaw the Pollard case also said the arrest of Kadish, who allegedly operated under identical circumstances, shows the spy ring was larger than anyone knew and that the Israelis lied about it.
Has this been swept under the rug like many of the crimes against the United States by Israel, due to the might and money of the Israeli lobbies in our country?