A US Army engineer from Michigan said he had been vindicated by an internal Pentagon report which concluded he had been wrongly accused of spying for Israel during the 1980s. David Tenenbaum, an Orthodox Jew was put on paid leave by the US Defense Department in 1997 while it and the FBI investigated his ties to Israel. He was eventually cleared of leaking military secrets.
The Defense Department's Inspector General Office reported three weeks ago that Tenenbaum "was subjected to unusual and unwelcome scrutiny because of his faith and ethnic background." Tenenbaum still works for the US Army and said he wants an apology from the military. He has also filed a lawsuit against his accusers.
FBI agents raided Tenenbaum's home in February 1997 after he allegedly told a polygraph examiner that he had inadvertently given classified information to Israeli liaison officers in the 1980s. In his lawsuit, Tenenbaum said he never gave classified information to anyone and never admitted he did. He said he was coerced into taking the lie detector exam.
