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 Judging by the lame excuses for Pollard that still persist this morning, I 
 can only assume that this article did not get posted......
 
 
 
 The "Friends of Pollard" are increasing the heat on the Justice Department to 
 release the notorious American traitor/Israeli spy, Jonathan Jay Pollard to 
 the "custody" of the Jewish State as a "token" of our "special relation" with 
 Israel.  For those who have been mis-informed by the usual Israeli controlled 
 American media, I offer the following review of the case.  I highly recommend 
 writing to your Congress-folk and insist that the traitor serve out his full 
 sentance.
 
                 "Aid Dollars Into the Pockets of Traitors"
 
       The first nationwide shockwave that revealed Israel in an untrustworthy
 posture emanated from a bizarre spy case, one of the most extraordinary in
 American history. Jonathan Jay Pollard, Jr., 31, a Navy counterintelligence
 analyst, was arrested in November 1985 for stealing classified documents as a
 paid spy for Israel.
 
       "We have a moral problem," a former official of Israel's principal spy
 agency, Mossad, said when he learned of the arrest. "You can't take money of
 the United States, and then use that money to buy information about that
 country." Immoral or not, that is exactly what happened.
 
   Before the arrest, the prosecution of Israel espionage had been taboo at
 the FBI despite long-standing evidence that placed other federal employees
 under suspicion. Like official at the State Department, where a senior
 diplomat describes as "fantastic" the level of spying for Israel, FBI
 officials habitually chose to look the other way, viewing pro-Israel
 political influence as great enough to make attempted prosecution an exercise
 in futility.
 
       The FBI "knew of at least a dozen incidents in which American officials
 transferred classified information to the Israelis," according to Raymond W.
 Wannal,Jr, a former assistant director of the FBI. None was prosecuted. The
 files gather dust.
 
       John Davitt, a career official and former chief of the Justice
 Department's internal security section, says: "When the Pollard case broke,
 the general media and public perception was that this was the first time this
 ever happened. No, that's not true at all." He adds that, during his tenure,
 only the Soviet Union did more spying in the United States than Israel...
 
   ...After Pollard's arrest, embarrassed Israeli officials apologized for the
 spying. They denounced it as an unauthorized "rogue" operation unknown by
 anyone at cabinet level, and offered fullcooperation in a U.S. investigation. 
 They pledged that "those responsible will be brought to account."
 
       Secretary of State George Shultz warmly accepted the apology, and the
 State Department quickly attempted a cover-up. Shultz sent a *TEAM* headed by
 legal adviser Abraham Sofaer, an ardent Zionist who maintains a home in
 Israel, on a brief investigation there. Returning, Sofaer falsely reported
 that Israel had provided "full access" to all persons with knowledge of the
 facts. Within a month of the arrest, the department announced that Israel had
 returned all stolen documents and that the United States had resumed sharing
 intelligence with Israel "in all fields." The "matter," for the State
 Department, was now closed.
            
 Elsewhere, the "matter" was far from closed. 
 At the justice Departmen, U.S. Attorney Joseph E. diGenova pressed the 
 prosecution vigorously, and the case remained in the headlines for more than 
 three years, giving the American people frequent reason to question Israeli 
 cooperation and reliability. For example, the Pollard spy ring, far from 
 being a "rogue" operation, reported to the highest levels of the Israeli
 government, including the Defense Ministry.
 
       The "return" of stolen documents was a mockery. Of the thousands copied
 by the Pollards, Israel bothered to return only 163 and, given its appetite 
 for top secrets, surely retained extra copies of these as well.
 
       Instead of cooperating, Israel stonewalled attempts by U.S.Justice
 Department to investigate the spy ring, refusing to permit key officials to
 be interviewed either in the United States or Israel. One U.S official,
 reflecting on the Sofaer mission , said, "The question is whether we got the
 truth. Quite frankly we didn't."
 
       The two Israelis who had the most prominent roles in the spy episode
 were "brought to account" by the Israeli government in a curios way. Each won
 higher position!...
 
   ...Weinberger wrote that the thievery caused "substantial and irrevocable
 harm, "risking lives of U.S. agents and creating the danger that "U.S. combat
 forces, wherever they are deployed in the world, could be unacceptably
 endangered through successful exploitation of this data." He added that
 Pollard had "both damaged and destroyed policies and national assets which
 have taken many years, great effort and enormous national resources to 
 secure."
 
       In the wake of the sentencing, Israel doubled Pollard's pay. The same
 government that earlier denounced the affair as an unauthorized "rogue"
 operation now deposits in Pollard's bank account $5,000 each month, assuring
 the Pollards a comfortable life in Israel if he is released for good
 behavior.
 
      The imprisonment of the Pollards, U.S. officials believe, has not ended
 Israeli espionage in the United States. Most of the secret information, as in
 the past, is furnished by U.S citizens without compensation.
 
  One official explains, "Mossad is the most active foreign intelligence 
 service on U.S. soil."...
 
       For years Israel has been able to learn virtually every secret about
 U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Reporter Charles Babcock of the
 Washington Post, basing his estimate on a 1979 CIA report and recent
 interviews with more than two dozen current or former U.S. intelligence
 officials, concludes, "This remarkable intelligence harvest is provided
 largely, not by paid agents, but by an unofficial network of sympathetic
 American officials who work in the Pentagon, State Department, congressional
 offices, the National Security Council, and even the U.S intelligence
 agencies."
 
       Meanwhile, Pollard became a cause celebre in both the United States and
 Israel, where public protests against his sentence were organized and legal
 defense funds raised. These funds were only a pittance, as the Israeli
 government provided most of the $200,000 that American lawyers for the two
 Pollards collected.
 
       Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard professor and an attorney for Pollard, cited
 Weinberger's assessment of U.S. security damage as the main reason why the
 court ordered a life sentence, which Dershowitz considered excessive
 and challenged Weinberger to prove that Pollard's thievery actually harmed
 U.S security.
 
       It was a limp challenge, because the public record already disclosed
 overwhelming evidence of damage. Items stolen by Pollard included photographs
 of security-related installations taken by high-flying U.S. surveillance
 planes, sensitive data on laser technology and U.S. weapons, secret
 information on naval forces, mines, and port facilities in the Middle East,
 and the text of a large handbook nicknamed the "bible," which contained
 strategies the U.S. Navy would use if attacked. The stolen documents were
 voluminous enough, the court was told, to fill a box six by six by ten feet
 in dimension!
 
       Israel made quick use of the secrets. Information provided by Pollard
 enabled Israeli warplanes to evade U.S. naval and air surveillance in the
 Mediterranean during their October 1985 air strike against the Tunis
 headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The precision-like
 attack, first dismissed by President Ronald Reagan as "legitimate self-
 defense, but later denounced by other administration officials, left nearly
 one hundred dead, mostly Tunisian civilians, and the PLO headquarters in
 shambles.
 
       The gravest harm to U.S. interests occurred when the Soviet Union
 acquired documents stolen by Pollard, perhaps all of them. The Soviets
 acquired the data through two separate secret channels. Israel opened one of
 them directly, offering U.S. secrets in an attempt to influence Moscow's
 policy on Jewish emigration. Using some of these same contacts, the KGB,
 Moscow's intelligence service, opened the other channel without the knowledge
 of Israeli leadership, establishing a spy network within Mossad...
 
       The reported diversion of stolen documents to Moscow made headlines in
 nine newspapers but competing news services and television networks ignored
 it. The New York Times and the Washington Post printed not a word...
 
    ...CIA officials agonize over the possibility that Pollard may have
 compromised the way the United States gathers intelligence and enabled Israel
 to crack secret U.S. codes.
 
  The damage to Israel, too, is incalculable. AS the American people learn
 the awesome extent of damage--especially the transfer of highly sensitive
 data directly to the Kremlin--they inevitably will rethink America's Israeli
 connection. Citizens, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, who, in their innocence,
 believed the Jewish state to be honest, open, and trustworthy in all its U.S.
 dealings are already expressing their outrage!...
 
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 If you are tired of "learning" about American foreign policy from what is 
 effectively, Israeli controlled media, I highly recommend checking out the 
 Washington Report.  A free sample copy is available by calling the American 
 Education Trust at:
                      (800) 368 5788
 
                  Tell 'em arf sent you.
 
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