Ex-Army Engineer Pleads Guilty to Spying for Israel

[DogPoundPup]

Source: NYT

Ben-Ami Kadish, an 85-year-old former Army engineer in New Jersey, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to spying for Israel by leaking secret documents about nuclear arms, missiles and fighter jets to the Israeli government during the 1980s.

Pleading guilty to one count of participating in a conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent for Israel, Mr. Kadish admitted that from about 1980 to 1985, he provided numerous classified documents, including information about missile systems, to Yosef Yagur, a science adviser at the Israeli consulate in New York, who photographed the documents in Mr. Kadish’s home. At the time, Mr. Kadish worked at the Army’s Armament, Research, Development and Engineering Center at the Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, N.J.

Mr. Kadish’s case was linked to that of Jonathan Jay Pollard, the former naval analyst serving a life sentence for leaking documents to Israel around the same time. Mr. Yagur, who is known as Yossi, also received information from Mr. Pollard. At first, Mr. Yagur was not named publicly as the Israeli agent who photographed the documents at Mr. Kadish’s home, but on Tuesday, federal authorities identified him by name as the agent.

The Pollard case has long been a contentious issue between the United States and Israel, whose leaders have argued for his release — a proposal that has been repeatedly rebuffed by American officials.

Read more: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/ex-army-engineer-pleads-guilty-to-spying-for-israel/

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. in recent years

it seems that all the spies we catch work for Israel. Why does Israel have people spying here? Aren't we strong allies, allowing Israel to do whatever they want and backing them up?

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. Maybe the truth is, that we are allowing our allies to get too close?

Keep your enemies close, and your allies as far away as possible?

[IndianaGreen]

10. Israel is not America's ally

Israel strafed the USS Liberty for two hours, and shot the lifeboats to ensure there were no survivors among the American crew.

[grassfed]

2. just in time for a Pres Pardon

[Poll_Blind]

8. Grassfed- Beat me to it! I mean, can ya beat that timing?! n/t

PB

[Lance_Boyle]

3. Toss him in the cell next to Pollard.

Then cut off all aid to the state that benefited from their treason.

[jrockford]

4. It be a start... n/t

[martymar64]

5. Give him the needle

Should have been given to Pollard long ago.
Maybe somebody inside can take care of him for a carton of smokes.

[Poll_Blind]

9. I think ALL spies, every one of them, should get the whole embroidery kit.

PB

[IndianaGreen]

6. Israel's spy gets a slap in the wrist while the anti-terrorist Cuban Five rot in prison

Who are the Cuban Five?

The Cuban Five are five Cuban men who are in U.S. prison, serving four life sentences and 75 years collectively, after being wrongly convicted in U.S. federal court in Miami, on June 8, 2001.

They are Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González.

The Five were falsely accused by the U.S. government of committing espionage conspiracy against the United States, and other related charges.

But the Five pointed out vigorously in their defense that they were involved in monitoring the actions of Miami-based terrorist groups, in order to prevent terrorist attacks on their country of Cuba.

The Five’s actions were never directed at the U.S. government. They never harmed anyone nor ever possessed nor used any weapons while in the United States.

The Cuban Five’s mission was to stop terrorism

For more than 40 years, anti-Cuba terrorist organizations based in Miami have engaged in countless terrorist activities against Cuba, and against anyone who advocates a normalization of relations between the U.S. and Cuba. More than 3,000 Cubans have died as a result of these terrorists’ attacks.

Terrorist Miami groups like Comandos F4 and Brothers to the Rescue operate with complete impunity from within the United States to attack Cuba—with the knowledge and support of the FBI and CIA.

Therefore, Cuba made the careful and necessary decision to send the Five Cubans to Miami to monitor the terrorists. The Cuban Five infiltrated the terrorist organizations in Miami to inform Cuba of imminent attacks.

http://www.freethefive.org/

[friendly_iconoclast]

11. Sorry, the Cuban Five ARE spies, whatever their motivation

They were secretly working for the Cuban government, and so were just as much spies as any
CIA or 'National Endowment for Democracy' agent.

They knew what they were getting into, and international law supports my stance.