MELISSA BLOCK, Host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: And I'm Robert Siegel.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: A U.S. Army veteran has been arrested and charged with handing over nuclear secrets to Israel. The Justice Department claims that Ben-Ami Kadish passed classified documents to an Israeli government agent from 1979 to 1985, and that the two men kept in touch until March of this year.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: NPR's Jackie Northam reports.</s>JACKIE NORTHAM: In a criminal complaint, the Justice Department says that Kadish handed over information - not only about American nuclear weapons, but also fighter jets and missile defense systems - to a handler who worked at the Israeli consulate in New York. At the time Kadish was an Army mechanical engineer based at a military research and development center in Dover, New Jersey. The Justice Department alleges the handler, identified only as CC-1, drew up lists of documents he wanted. Kadish would bring those documents to his home, where the Israeli would photograph them and then Kadish would return them.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: handing over information regarding nuclear weaponry. The Israeli Embassy in Washington had no immediate comment. The Justice Department says it believes Kadish's motive was ideological: to help the state of Israel. He never received any money, just a few small gifts and dinners. But his case raises a question that harks back to the Pollard incident: Just how widespread was the Israeli spying network in the United States?</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: Jackie Northam, NPR News, Washington.
A former U.S. Army mechanical engineer has been arrested on charges he slipped classified documents about nuclear weapons to the Israelis during the 1980s. Ben-Ami Kadish, an 84-year-old U.S. citizen, faces four counts of spying.