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Titolo: U.S. to demand Jerusalem acknowledge Kadish was an Israeli agent

U.S. to demand Jerusalem acknowledge Kadish was an Israeli agent  
 
By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent  
 
Tags: Israel, U.S.   
The United States' demands of Israel following the arrest and subsequent
indictment Tuesday in the U.S. of Ben-Ami Kadish on charges of spying for
Israel recalled similar demands following the 1985 arrest of Jonathan
Pollard, American sources familiar with the case have told Haaretz. At
that time, Israel announced its full cooperation and handed over
information to the American investigators, in effect greatly aiding the
case against Pollard. 
According to the American sources, Israel is currently refusing to repeat
this mistake but it eventually will have to admit, to the U.S. government
and perhaps also to the public, that Kadish was indeed working for
official agents of the State of Israel. 
Wednesday's Foreign Ministry statement, according to which Israel halted
its espionage activities against the United States on U.S. soil in 1985,
also hints at this. Its language leaves the door open for Israel's
admission that Kadish was an Israeli agent but ceased these activities in
1985, as stated in his indictment. Pollard was arrested that year. 
 
 
According to the charge sheet, it was Kadish's brother Ehud, who lives in
Israel, who made the initial contact between Ben-Ami and his Israeli
handler, Yossi Yagur, when Ehud and Yagur worked together at Israel
Aircraft Industries (now known as Israel Aerospace Industries). 
Another interesting question, which remains to be answered, is the issue
of who will pay for Kadish's legal fees. At the beginning of the Pollard
affair, a public committee was founded that was supposedly composed of
volunteers who collected money to pay for the defense of Pollard and his
wife at the time, Anne Pollard. It later became clear that the public
committee was actually a front for the Israeli government and intelligence
community. 
Jerusalem responds 
Barak Ravid adds: "The events date back to the early 1980s," Foreign
Ministry spokesman Arye Mekel said Wednesday. "Since 1985, great care has
been taken to observe the directives of the prime ministers not to conduct
activities of this kind in the U.S." 
"Relations between the United States and Israel have always been based on
true friendship and mutual values and interests," Mekel added. 
According to U.S. court documents, Kadish confessed to the crimes of which
he is accused and told the FBI he had sought to aid Israel. The
information he allegedly passed to Israel dealt with nuclear weapons,
fighter aircraft and defensive missiles. 
Kadish, 84, was released on $300,000 bail Tuesday following a brief
appearance in a Manhattan federal court. 
The Foreign Ministry announcement was one of two exceptions to the
official silence that prevailed in Jerusalem Wednesday on the story. 
The other was a statement made by Environmental Protection Minister Gideon
Ezra, who in an interview to Israel Radio said he did not believe the
affair would damage Israel-U.S. relations. He said that Kadish was not
another Pollard. 
 
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