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Date: Tue Oct 20 2009 - 02:19:51 CDT

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6380288/Top-US-scientist-accused-of-trying-to-spy-for-Israel.html

By Toby Harnden in Washington
Telegraph
19 Oct 2009

Stewart Nozette, 52, developed an experiment that fuelled the discovery
of water on the south pole of the moon, and held a special security
clearance at the United States Department of Energy on atomic materials.

He has been charged with .attempted espionage for knowingly and wilfully
attempting to communicate, deliver and transmit classified information
relating to the national defence of the US to an individual that Nozette
believed to be an Israeli intelligence officer,. the US Department of
Justice said.

But the person Mr Nozette believed to be an Israeli intelligence officer
was in fact an undercover FBI agent in a sting operation, the department
said. The US government said there had been no breach of protocol by
Israel, which has agreed not to spy on its ally.

The 1985 arrest of Jonathan Pollard, a US civilian intelligence analyst
at the Pentagon, and his subsequent conviction for spying for Israel,
seriously strained US-Israeli relations. After his conviction, he was
granted Israeli citizenship and his release is a perennial Israeli
demand.

The Justice Department said: "From 1989 to 2006, Nozette held security
clearances as high as top secret and had regular, frequent access to
classified information and documents related to the US national
defence."

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