Re:Australian AF cracked codes on fighters sold to them by US
by rms on Thursday September 20, 2007 @10:01PM
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Isn't it solidly against the interests of the Israelis to sell secrets to the Russians or Chinese?
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Re:Australian AF cracked codes on fighters sold to them by US
by uuilly on Thursday September 20, 2007 @10:12PM
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Depends. Here is a case where it wasn't:
-Israelis recruit a DOD employee(Jonathan Pollard) to spy for them during the Cold War.
-He tells them how to crack our naval codes.
-They sell the codes to the Russians in exchange for Jewish Ukrainian refugees.
Israel is a democracy and the Arabs in Israel are reproducing faster than the Jews in Israel. So if they want to continue to be "The Jewish State" they need immigrants to keep the majority. So in that case is was in their interest.
Great story from the New Yorker about it: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/576453/posts