US Citizen Spies for Government of Israel - Maybe They Should Apply the Deemed Export Rule to US Citizens
May 2008
Ben-Ami Kadish has been arrested on several charges of spying conspiracy. From 1979 into 1985 he was employed at the US Army’s Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center. Beginning in 1980 Kadish, a US citizen, would take classified documents home and provide them to an unnamed citizen of Israel who would photograph the documents.
The Israel citizen was employed by the Government of Israel as the Consul for Science Affairs at eh Israeli Consulate General in Manhattan. He would direct Kadish on what documents he needed and met Kadish at his home to photograph them.
Of the numerous documents photographed over the years the most alarming were documents classified as restricted containing nuclear weaponry, major weapon systems of an F-15 fighter jet, and major strategies of the US patriot missile air defense system, noted as being “Secret”.
On March 20, 2008 Kadish received a phone call from the unnamed co conspirator instructing him deny any contact with him to federal law enforcement officials. The next day Kadish followed the conspirator’s orders and denied any contact with the individual and even the phone conversation from the previous evening.
Kadish is charged with 4 counts of conspiracy, that which include disclosing documents of US national defense to the Government of Israel, acting as an agent of the Government of Israel, hindering a communication to a law enforcement officer, and making a materially false statement to a law enforcement officer.
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