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Originally Posted by Commander Wallace
Johnathan Pollard, who had been a civilian Naval Intelligence analyst was released from prison on Friday. He served 30 years of a life sentence. Pollard had been convicted of spying for Israel. His spying created a rift between the U.S and Israel after it was revealed that Pollard reported directly to an aide of then Prime Minister Shimon Peres .
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...120-story.html
Pollard testified at his trial that his spying was out of love for Israel. Prosecutors however revealed at his trial he was paid for spying and also offered or passed information to Pakistan, South Africa and Australia.
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It is my belief, and the intelligence community was of the nearly certain belief, that assets [agents working for the U.S. overseas] were compromised,” said Joseph diGenova, who prosecuted Pollard.DiGenova said Pollard passed the Israelis thousands of documents that had nothing to do with Israel’s enemies, including technical information about U.S. information systems and satellites, photographs, maps and classified manuals.
“It was a gigantic amount of information and stuff of the highest top-secret code word classification,” DiGenova said. He said that Israel bartered the information to the Soviet Union in return for the release of Soviet Jews to Israel, compromising agents who quickly disappeared. |
I have a feeling that the US will regret releasing him. I mean, I know why they released him, but he can still do some major harm, right?