U.S. man who gave secrets to Israel spared jail

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"An 85-year-old former civilian employee of the U.S. Army was fined but given no prison time on Friday after earlier pleading guilty to giving classified documents to Israel in the 1980s in a case the sentencing judge said was "shrouded in mystery."

U.S. District Judge William Pauley fined Ben-Ami Kadish $50,000, but Kadish received no prison time at his sentencing hearing. He pleaded guilty in December to acting as an unregistered agent of Israel.

"Why it took the government 23 years to charge Mr. Kadish is shrouded in mystery," Pauley said. "It is clear the (U.S.) government could have charged Mr. Kadish with far more serious crimes."

Prosecutors had recommended no prison time. They said Kadish between 1980 and 1985 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.

"I thought I was helping the state of Israel without harming the United States," Kadish said during the sentencing.

Court documents showed 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."

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[ThirdWorldJohn]

1. We can water board him to make sure he came clean on everything, right?

[Howardx]

2. the term is spy

you may additionally use the term traitor.