US man accused of spying for Israel
Washington says 84-year-old engineer passed on nuclear secrets from army base.
Kadish was suspected of reporting to the same Israeli official as Jonathan Jay Pollard, who is serving a life term on a charge of spying.
Pollard, a former Pentagon official, pleaded guilty to spying for Israel in 1986 and received a life sentence.
Classified documents
The complaint alleges that the consular official, identified in the indictment as “CC-1”, gave Kadish lists of classified documents to obtain from the US Army’s Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Centre at the Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey.
The documents included information about nuclear weapons, fighter jets and the US Patriot missile air defence system.
Kadish, who worked at the arsenal from 1963-1990, kept in touch with CC-1 via telephone and email and met the official in Israel in 2004, the authorities said.
“CC-1” left the US in 1985 and has never returned, the authorities said.
Arye Mekel, an Israeli foreign ministry spokesman said: “We know nothing about it. We heard it from the media.”