ISRAEL TRIES ARMY OFFICER AS SYRIAN SPY

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CREST [1]

Collection:

General CIA Records [2]

Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):

CIA-RDP90-00965R000201430002-3

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RIPPUB

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K

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1

Document Creation Date:

December 22, 2016

Document Release Date:

January 18, 2012

Sequence Number:

2

Case Number:

Publication Date:

July 4, 1986

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OPEN SOURCE

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Si Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/18: CIA-RDP90-00965R000201430002-3 "' VEW YORK POST vN PAGE _~ 4 July 1986 ISRAEL TRIFS OFFICER AS S ^ YRIAN SPY By URI DAN assigned to the Israeu orncer's trial were not ,Vidftfat Israeli Arm ?~'p?^d Frontier Guard, immediately known. AN y ntel- Release of details of It was also unclear li ence officer with the the investigation of whether the alleged .rank o ma or has been the officer, his arrest re ar , Syrian spy was a major s and a two-week trial in the Israeli regular Svian stove .++pnt was banned by Israeli gence re L allying fog rhn behind closed doors army or in the intelli-believes The latest spy scan- military censors. But thes ecuuriity se- dal to rock Jerusalem But a Hebrew crets he betrayed followed two other weekly published in could be crucial if the Major security shake- New York, Israel Mideast powderkeg ups and came as ten- Shelanu, disclosed explodes. lions with Damascus that the spy was un-Isr were mounting swiftly, masked after the re- ~h intelligence It a- l` led.t i cent capture of an are pla the Syrians fears that S rya had Arab terror squad in attack to attack toing a surprise sto en o n e ence south Lebanon. -take urmoil advan- use to Under interro atio of political t n, in a_n i- n ? {^,. the terrorists re Je hem and to re- t~r-Gvealed the name of thee the Golan Heights. Israeli officer, who The nation has been Thu offi .. cer .~yavaaagC was not Identified, but he was said to have extensive contacts with Israel's left-wing community. He was also described as the son of a promi- nent high-ranking mill. tary officer formerly of the commandos, rnan Jay Pollard spy A sealed indictment scandal, which in- filed in Haifa District volved a ell -inanced Court was argued network set up by Abraham Freidman, Jerusalem has also but the results of the been shaken by recent rev 1 iong abut rhu Shin Bah, thee- in allioo.. agency charged with covering uo the beat- ing deaths of two_ Palestinian terrorists. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/18: CIA-RDP90-00965R000201430002-3