LEKEM

Yagur worked in LAKAM, a scientific intelligence-gathering unit of Israel's Defense Ministry, and was posted as a science consul at the Israeli Consulate in New York.

LAKAM was established to assist Israel in obtaining technology for the construction of the nuclear reactor in Dimona. It basically worked to "steal" defense technology throughout the world on behalf of Israel's defense industries. And its agents were basically disguised as consulate workers.

Rafi Eitan, a former top Mossad official and today Pensioners Affairs Minister, was head of LAKAM at the time.

People

• Rafi Eitan - Former head
• Yossi Yagur
• Jonathan Pollard
• Ben-ami Kadish - charged with spying for Israel.