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U.S. Accuses Israel
Of Weapons Sales
Washington (JTA) — In a
move with the potential to
harm U.S.-Israeli relations
at a sensitive moment in the
Middle East peace process,
the United States has accus-
ed Israel of selling advanced
military technology to
China.
CIA Director James
Woolsey said Israel has been
selling possibly several
billion dollars in defense
technologies to Beijing for
more than 10 years.
The CIA assessment ap-
peared in a report released
recently by the Senate
Governmental Affairs
Committee.
"We believe the Chinese
seek from Israel advanced
military technologies that
U.S. and Western firms are
unwilling to provide," the
CIA said in written re-
sponses to senators' ques-
tions.
"The Chinese probably
also hope that formalizing
such ties will foster an envi-
ronment in which they can
recoup some of the cost they
have incurred in more than
a decade of acquiring
defense technologies from
Israel — a cost that may be
several billion dollars," the
CIA said.
Israel has denied harming
U.S. interests.
"Israel adheres to all of its
commitments to the United
States with regard to its re-
lationship with China,"
Ruth Yaron, the Israeli Em-
bassy spokeswoman, said.
Israeli officials here were
playing down the
significance of the report
and its timing.
They said they were not
concerned that the issue
could lead to a worsening of
relations with the United
States because the two coun-
tries talked regularly about
such issues and the United
States was aware of what
Israel was and was not do-
ing.
State Department
spokesman Mike McCurry
said that the United States
was in touch with Israel
about technology transfer
issues. He would not com-
ment specifically on the
latest reports.
Allegations about Israel
selling sensitive weapons
technology to China have
been floating around for
some time now. but the tim-
ing of this latest flare-up
could raise questions here.
This controversy is rearing
its head while Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin is
visiting China, the first
Israeli prime minister to
travel to Beijing since the
two countries established
diplomatic relations in 1992.
In addition, the U.S. ac-
cusations are being made
public as the United States
has been trying to bolster
both Israel and the Palestin-
ians while they try to
implement their historic
agreement for limited Pales-
tinian self-rule in the West
Bank and Gaza.
Sources here seemed
relatively unconcerned
about the controversy
perhaps because the major
newspapers in Washington
did not carry reports on the
issue.
Some in the pro-Israel
community were taking a
wait-and-see attitude about
whether the issue would
Officials stressed
there were no
specific allegations
in what Mr.
Woolsey said, and
the U.S. had been
wrong before in
accusing Israel of
transferring
sensitive
technology.
blossom into a full- fledged
controversy.
Pro-Israel sources on the
Hill said that they were un-
aware of any action or con-
cern about the report, so far.
The Israeli officials stress-
ed that there were no
specific allegations in what
Mr. Woolsey and the CIA
said, and that the U.S.
government had been wrong
before in accusing Israel of
transferring sensitive
technology.
During the Bush ad-
ministration, the United
States accused Israel of
transferring Patriot missile
technology to China. Israel
was later exonerated by the
State Department.
Israeli officials said the
report was a recycling of old
news that had been cir-
culating for a while.