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Sunday, August 29, 2004

Officials worry about effects of spy accusations

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JERUSALEM -- Israeli officials yesterday said reports that a Pentagon analyst passed classified information to Israel seriously could damage the nation's image in America, even as they denied any role in such an operation.

"There is no doubt that these publications are damaging, [and] even though they are false, they are damaging," said Natan Sharansky, who as minister for diaspora affairs is responsible for the effects of anti-Semitism on Jews worldwide.

American officials said this weekend that the FBI has spent more than a year investigating whether a Pentagon analyst funneled highly classified material to Israel concerning U.S. policy toward Iran.

Both Israel and the United States are worried that Iran's nuclear-energy program is a front for an effort to develop nuclear weapons.

"I hope [the investigation] is all a mistake or misunderstanding of some kind," Mr. Sharansky told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

Mentioning "the Pentagon and the CIA" specifically, Mr. Sharansky suggested that the probe might have resulted from "a rivalry between different bodies."

Former Mossad chief Danny Yatom said the Israeli government laid down strict guidelines to prohibit espionage against its major ally after the arrest in 1985 of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.

Pollard, a former official in U.S. Naval Intelligence, is serving a life sentence in the United States.

Although the two countries have very close defense and political ties, the American intelligence community has been sensitive to the possibility of Israeli intelligence penetration ever since Pollard's arrest.

With the issue dominating Israeli public-affairs shows yesterday, Mr. Yatom pointed out that Israeli and American officials and academics have hundreds of formal and informal meetings every year.

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