Well Bill Richer: This is interesting item re Pollard where it is
alleged he caused the death of CIA agents overseas as the death of Welch
was blamed on Henry Kissinger, KGB Agent Code Name Bor.
Don't you think everything should be brought to the light about this
case? Was Pollard really selling secrets to KGB as the Walker spies
had so done? Joseph Lieberman in the past has always protested release
of this man.
It is said by certain people Pollard held dual citizenship; he was
charged but not convicted of treason, if this is correct - but he caused
a lot of trouble and evidenly a lot of lives.
Big question is how in the world did this guy ever get into the
intelligence field....wasn't too smart for he also got caught.
If they loose him, send him back to Israel and let the Israelies deal
with him.
Saba
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Jonathan Pollard Was No Jewish Patriot
by Eric Margolis
The Toronto Sun, Jan. 14, 1999
The case of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Jay Pollard has again reared
its ugly head. American Jewish groups, Hollywood celebrities and Israel
have renewed pressure on the besieged Clinton administration to free the
man they call "the Jewish Dreyfus." Pollard has served 13 years of a
life sentence.
President Bill Clinton is loath to antagonize America's politically
powerful Jewish community, which strongly supports the Democratic party.
But the president is also under intense pressure from the national
security community not to free the Israeli spy. CIA director George
Tenent has threatened to resign if Pollard is pardoned. Seven former
U.S. secretaries of defence, some of whom are Jewish, also demanded
Pollard remain in prison for life.
After years of denials, Israel finally admitted Pollard, a U.S. Navy
civilian analyst, was not a "rogue agent," as it originally claimed, but
a spy for Israeli intelligence.
Pollard caused enormous damage to U.S. national security. He gave Israel
top-secret U.S. military intelligence and diplomatic codes; names of
nearly 100 U.S. agents in the Mideast, who were then "turned" by Israel;
NSA code-breaking techniques and targets; intercepts of foreign
communications; and U.S. war-fighting plans for the Mideast.
According to CIA sources, Pollard provided Israeli intelligence with
names of important American agents inside the former
Soviet Union and Russia who had supplied information on East Bloc
weapons and war plans. How the agents' names were linked to the secrets
they supplied - a major breach of basic intelligence security - remains
a mystery.
Some of the enormously sensitive secrets stolen by Pollard may have been
either sold, or bartered, by Israel to the Soviet Union.
A number of key CIA agents in the East Bloc were allegedly executed as a
result of Pollard's spying. The KGB likely gained access to top-secret
U.S. codes - either directly from Israel, or through spies in Israel's
government. In short, Pollard's treachery caused one of the worst
security disasters in modern U.S. history.
FBI investigators discovered Pollard was being directed to steal
specific secret data by a senior administration official, known as "Mr.
X." But the White House, unwilling to stir up a domestic political
storm, quashed the investigation.
To my knowledge, three previous cases of high-ranking U.S. government
officials caught passing top-secret information to Israel have been
similarly hushed up. Two were senior defence department officials under
Ronald Reagan, one a top state department official in a previous
administration.
None was prosecuted.
Pollard's defenders claim he, like French Capt. Alfred Dreyfus in 1894,
is a victim of anti-Semitism in the military. They maintain Pollard was
"only" spying for a friendly country, motivated solely by concern for
Israel's security.
These assertions are patently false. Pollard was suspected for some time
of spying. Investigation was held off precisely because of fears of
raising cries of anti-Semitism. Pollard took large sums of money and
jewelry from Israeli agents in payment for spying.
With remarkable chutzpah, Israel, which receives up to $5 billion in
U.S. aid annually, refuses to return documents stolen by Pollard, or
allow U.S. intelligence to debrief Mossad agents who ran Pollard in
order to learn the full extent of the disaster.
While Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu kept calling for Pollard's release
on "humanitarian" grounds, he refused to free prisoner of conscience
Mordechai Vanunu, now serving 18 years in solitary confinement in Israel
for telling a British newspaper about Israel's nuclear arsenal.
Pollard is no Jewish patriot. He is a traitor who sold out his country,
and fellow intelligence officers, for money, then claimed he was being
persecuted by anti-Semites.
Victim he is not. To the contrary, Pollard is a poster boy for
anti-Semitism. His treason unfairly exposes all American Jews to hate,
and accusations of doubtful loyalty.
Jonathan Pollard is a traitor of the worst kind - not a second Dreyfus -
and should stay in prison.
See also The Case Against Jonathan Pollard by Seymour Hersh. See other
news reports. More news reports.
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