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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Request to Chedley / a question of allegiance
Message-ID: <912@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 20:54:20 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 18 20:54:20 1985
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Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
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In article <566@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP> aouriri@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP (Chedley Aouriri) writes:
>I received several reply mails and follow-ups to my original posting
>raising the question of american jews'allegiance to Israel vs USA,
>following a spy case a couple weeks ago.
>
>Contrary to the cases of several other spies caught spooking
>against their country for money or emotional/sexual motivations, 
>the troubling issue in the case of this american jew caught spying for
>Israel, against the USA, was that he was doing it for IDEOLOGICAL 
>motivations.
>How do you think we should react if we catch an american spy passing 
>classified information to Moscow, and doing it NOT for money
>(in this country, dollar motivation is respected) or because he fell in
>love with a lovely KGB operative, but because he believes in
>the Communist ideology.?.

*Most* of the Russian spies who have been caught in this country were doing
it because they believed in the Communist ideology.  The recent case (I
forget the name, family spying on the Navy) was noted in the press as
being unusual because they apparently did it only for money.

Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108