http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/FedCrimes/story?id=4701450
A former civilian employee of a military arsenal in New Jersey has been indicted by the federal government for allegedly conspiring to pass U.S. military secrets to the Israeli government more than 20 years ago.

(ABC News Photo Illustration)According to court documents, Ben-Ami Kadish allegedly spied for Israel from 1979-1985 and provided an official from the Israeli consulate in New York with U.S. national defense information, including restricted nuclear weapons data, classified jet fighter weapons system data and key information on the Patriot missile system.

Government sources say Kadish's Israeli handler is also the same man who handled convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.

Pollard and his wife pleaded guilty in 1986 to charges of passing information to Israel and China. According to the FBI, Pollard had provided Israel with about 800 classified documents and more than 1000 cables while he was working as an analyst at the Navy's Anti-Terrorist Alert Center.

After Pollard was exposed, his handler left the United States and Kadish went underground. Pollard is serving a life sentence at a federal prison in North Carolina.
Kadish allegedly kept in contact with his Israeli handler until last month, when the handler, who is only identified as "Co-conspirator 1" in court documents, allegedly instructed Kadish to lie to U.S. investigators in the case.

The Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey released a statement confirming that Kadish, whom an Army official described as an elderly widower in failing health, worked at the facility "more than 18 years ago."

"At the time of his retirement in January 1990, Mr. Kadish was a supervisory engineer in the installation's Fuze Division," the statement said, adding that Kadish "was first employed at this installation in October 1963."

"We have been cooperating fully with federal investigators and will continue to do so," Picatinny spokesman Peter Rowland said in the statement.

On its website, the Picatinny Arsenal bills itself as the "Home of American Firepower" and "of-a-kind facility that provides virtually all of the lethal mechanisms used in Army weapon systems and those of the other military services."

Spy cases involving U.S. allies, such as Israel, have at times caused some tension between the countries involved.

Israelis have protested Pollard's life sentence for the spy charges, but law enforcement officials note that the U.S. laws on disclosing national security information do not differentiate which country, friend or foe received the information.

Israel formally acknowledged that Pollard served as their agent in 1998.