From: eshneken@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Edward A Shnekendorf)
Subject: Re: Ten questions about Israel
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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backon@vms.huji.ac.il writes:

>In article <1483500349@igc.apc.org>, cpr@igc.apc.org (Center for Policy Research) writes:
>>

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>> 4.      Is it true that in Israeli prisons there are a number of
>> individuals which were tried in secret and for which their
>> identities, the date of their trial and their imprisonment are
>> state secrets ?


>Apart from Mordechai Vanunu who had a trial behind closed doors, there was one
>other espionage case (the nutty professor at the Nes Ziona Biological
>Institute who was a K.G.B. mole) who was tried "in camera". I wouldn't exactly
>call it a state secret. The trial was simply tried behind closed doors. I hate
>to disappoint you but the United States has tried a number of espionage cases
>in camera.

One of those US cases was John Pollard.

Ed.

