Former U.S. Army employee pleaded guilty on Tuesday to acting as an unregistered agent of Israel and admitted he gave classified documents to the Jewish state.
Court documents show the defendant, Ben-Ami Kadish, reported to the same handler as Jonathan Pollard, an American who spied for Israel in the 1980s and triggered a scandal that rocked U.S.-Israeli relations. Kadish's plea indicates the Israeli spy network that obtained U.S. nuclear secrets through Pollard spread further than previously acknowledged. Prosecutors say Ben-Ami Kadish provided classified documents, including some relating to U.S. missile defense systems, to an Israeli agent, Yosef Yagur, who photographed the documents at Kadish's residence. Yagur was one of Pollard's handlers, according to court documents. Yagur asked Kadish to obtain classified documents, which Kadish retrieved from the U.S. Army's Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, New Jersey, according to Kadish's sworn statement. Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, who served three decades in prison after pleading guilty to spying for Israel in 1986. His case led Jews in the United States and Israel to plea for his clemency. Israel gave Pollard citizenship in 1996 and acknowledged he was one of its spies in 1998. Kadish, a Connecticut-born U.S. citizen, faces a maximum of five years in prison at his February 13 sentencing in federal court in Manhattan but it is possible he will not serve any time. Sentencing guidelines call for a maximum of six months and prosecutors said they would not oppose a sentence without jail time, according to his plea agreement. The Israeli embassy had no immediate comment. Kadish used his security clearance to borrow 50 to 100 classified documents from the arsenal's library, including some "concerning nuclear weaponry" and others relating to a modified version of an F-15 fighter jet that the United States had sold to an unidentified country, the complaint said. A third pertained to the U.S. Patriot missile air defense system. On Monday, June 27, 2016 at 1:56:04 PM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > http://politichicks.com/2016/06/robert-spencer-muslim-pleads-guilty-to-selling-nuclear-technology-to-iran/ > > > > Robert Spencer: Muslim Pleads Guilty to Selling Nuclear Technology to Iran > <http://politichicks.com/2016/06/robert-spencer-muslim-pleads-guilty-to-selling-nuclear-technology-to-iran/> > > *Posted On Jun 27 2016 <http://politichicks.com/2016/06/27/>* > > [image: Description: Screen Shot 2016-06-20 at 9.28.06 AM]From Robert > Spencer’s Jihad Watch > <https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/06/new-york-muslim-pleads-guilty-to-selling-nuclear-technology-to-iran> > : > > *The irony here is that Obama has just given the Iranians so much money > that they can pursue many deals of this kind. Then the U.S. government > prosecutes people like Erdal Kuyumcu. If the U.S. government doesn’t want > Iran to obtain material it can use to build nuclear weapons, why did it > give the Iranians so much money? It won’t, after all, be able to monitor > and stop all of Iran’s transactions the way it did this one.* > > *“Turkish actor in US admits selling nuclear technology material to Iran,” > by Nafiz Albayrak, Doğan News Agency, June 15, 2016:* > > *A former Turkish actor, detained in New York for illegally selling to > Iran a restricted metallic powder used in missile production, pleaded > guilty on June 15.* > > *Erdal Kuyumcu, 44, the chief executive of Global Metallurgy LLC, pleaded > guilty in a Brooklyn federal court on June 15 to deliberately violating the > International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which limits trade > with Iran.* > > *The indictment said Kuyumcu collected more than 450 kilograms of > cobalt-nickel metallic powder, which is used in aerospace, missile > production and nuclear applications, to export them to Iran.* > > *It added that Kuyumcu, along with another partner, then hid the metal > powder in Turkey before sending it to Iran.* > > *The indictment demanded 20 years in prison for Kuyumcu, in addition to a > $1 million fine, but Kuyumcu is expected to be sentenced to up to five > years in jail after reaching a deal with the prosecutor’s office and > disclosing the partners and institutions involved in the plan.* > > *The final verdict on Kuyumcu will be given in October.* > > *According to a statement by the U.S. Justice Ministry, Kuyumcu sold > nickel metal powder, which he bought from a U.S. company in Ohio, to Iran > via a firm in Turkey without receiving a license from the U.S. Treasury > Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).* > > *Kuyumcu’s lawyer Patrick Mullin denied that the powder would have been > used in missile production, claiming that it was also often used for > industrial purposes.* > > *Kuyumcu had appeared in many TV series and movies in Turkey….* > > > > > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient&utm_term=icon> > Virus-free. > www.avast.com > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient&utm_term=link> > > > __._,_.___ > ------------------------------ > Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > ------------------------------ > > > Visit Your Group > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmM3M5dWJmBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NjcwMzY0ODI-> > > > > [image: Yahoo! 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