Latest arrest exposes Israel’s fifth column in the U.S.
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by Justin Raimondo
Whenever the subject of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4101 spying in the U.S. comes up, the journalistic handle is always the same: the infamous Jonathan Pollard. His ghost hovers over the increasingly troubled “special relationship” – and he isn’t even dead yet.
Convicted of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2298.
Pollard had top-secret clearance and was able to procure a long list of documents for his Israeli handlers, but what baffled – and alarmed – top intelligence officials was that he had known the titles and in some cases the serial numbers of specific documents. These could only have been provided by someone in a much higher pay grade – a top official privy to ultra-sensitive, need-to-know secrets. This was the basis for the long-standing suspicion that Pollard was but the outer layer of a deeply-entrenched Israeli spy ring. In addition, a May 7, 1997 story in the Washington Post reported the National Security Agency had intercepted a communication between an Israeli embassy official and the head of Israeli intelligence that strongly implied the presence of a top-level mole in the U.S. government. During the course of the conversation, according to the Post, the embassy official – eager to gain access to certain communications between Warren Christopher and Yasser Arafat – wanted to “go to Mega” for the goods. The Mossad chief, Danny Yatom, remonstrated with him, averring, “This is not something we use Mega for.”
What did they use him for, then? One shudders to think about it, but apparently someone in the FBI has been thinking about it all these years, as indicated by the arrest of Ben-Ami Kadish, an 84-year-old engineer who worked at the Picatinny Arsenal in northern New Jersey, for 27 years. The four-count indictment against him charges he stole nuclear secrets, Patriot Missile specifications, and information on F-15 fighter planes of the type we sold to Saudi Arabia. He did this at the command of one “Yossi Yagur” (not his real name) who was also the New York Israeli consular officer who handled Pollard. Yagur is or was a top official with the Office of Science Relations, known as Lakam, devoted to industrial espionage and now supposedly disbanded.
Yagur, identified in the indictment only as “CC-1” (“Co-conspirator 1”) gave his henchman a list, and Kadish would go check out the requested documents from the Arsenal’s classified library. He would then sneak them out of the facility and bring them home, where Kadish would photograph them in the basement. Documents were promptly replaced, and no one was the wiser. Yagur fled to Israel when Pollard’s treason was uncovered, but he has been in touch with Kadish over the years. According to the indictment, Kadish went to visit him in 2004.
No one caught on to Kadish for over 20 years. So how did the Feds uncover this forgotten angle of the Pollard case? Newsweek cites one official as saying “the information that identified Kadish came from super-secret intelligence monitoring related to ongoing inquiries about the Pollard case.” Ongoing inquiries – after all these years? The Newsweek piece avers that some U.S. intelligence officials had good reason to suspect a high-level “mole ” – except that “investigators never discovered whether such a high-level Israeli source existed; nor did they try very hard to find him.”
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