U.S. authorities arrested an 84-year-old American on Tuesday suspected of giving Israel secrets on nuclear weapons, fighter jets and missiles in the 1980s in a case with links to imprisoned spy Jonathan Pollard.
Ben-Ami Kadish acknowledged his spying in FBI interviews and said he acted out of a belief he was helping Israel, according to court documents.
Kadish was accused of reporting to an Israeli government handler who was also a main contact for Pollard, an American citizen serving a life term on a 1985 charge of spying for Israel.
Kadish's arrest indicates that spying revealed by the Pollard case, still an irritant in the close U.S. alliance with Israel, may have spread wider than previously acknowledged. "It was bigger than we thought, and they hid it well," said former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova, who prosecuted the Pollard case.
State Department spokesman Tom Casey said, "We will be informing the Israelis of this action ... 20-plus years ago during the Pollard case we noted that this was not the kind of behavior we would expect from friends and allies and that would remain the case today."
I must say, I'm disappointed in the Israeli's for this. After all we've done for them and after all the defense and aid we've given them, this is how we are treated? Personally, I think execution is in order here, even if the guy did it over 20 years ago and he's 84. We're talking about nuclear weapons secrets here. We're talking about weapons systems that, had he screwed up and this information fell into the wrong hands, could have resulted in the deaths of thousands of people.
It's treason, and traitors should be put to death.
Travis
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