Anat Kamm to be sentenced Sunday over alleged espionage case

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http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/anat-kamm-to-be-sentenced-sunday-over-alleged-espionage-case-1.392190

By Tomer Zarchin
Haaretz.com
27.10.11

Anat Kamm, who was convicted in February of collecting, holding and 
passing on classified information without authorization, is to be 
sentenced by the Tel Aviv District Court on Sunday.

The conviction was obtained under a plea bargain that reduced the 
charges. Originally, Kamm had been charged with espionage.

Kamm stole some 2,000 documents from the office of then-GOC Central 
Command Yair Naveh, where she worked during her army service.

Among the documents were 700 marked classified or top secret. Kamm 
passed the documents to Haaretz reporter Uri Blau.

Some of the documents appeared to show that senior Israel Defense Forces 
officers had violated High Court of Justice rulings by approving the 
assassination of wanted men in the West Bank even when it would have 
been possible to arrest them.

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