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 Jonathan Pollard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
Jonathan Jay Pollard (born August 7, 1954) is a convicted Israeli spy and a former United States Naval civilian intelligence analyst.
Pollard pleaded guilty and was convicted on one count of spying for Israel, receiving a life sentence in 1986 with a recommendation against parole.
Pollard's supporters argue that his sentence was excessive: "The median sentence for the offense Pollard committed - one count of passing non-injurious classified information to an ally - is two to four years" ([8]).
www.tocatch.info /en/Jonathan_Jay_Pollard.htm   (2568 words)

  
 Why Jonathan Pollard Got Life - Middle East Quarterly
Pollard, it will be recalled, was an intelligence research specialist with the U.S. Navy who received a life sentence in March 1987 after being convicted of spying for Israel.
Pollard's coconspirators, the U.S. has been deprived of the quid pro quo routinely received during authorized and official intelligence exchanges with Israel, and Israel has received information classified at a level far in excess of that ever contemplated by the National Security Council.
"Pollards" in the plural because Pollard's wife Anne had a role in the case as well, for which she was sentenced to five years in jail.
www.meforum.org /article/355   (2124 words)

  
 Jonathan Pollard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
Pollard was sentenced to die in prison after he had been found guilty of being the greatest traitor in the history of the United States.
Pollard was arrested on November 21, 1986, outside the Israeli embassy in Washington.
Esther Pollard, as she was from then on known, became the spearhead of the campaign to have her husband freed.
www.gordonthomas.ie /Articles/pollard.htm   (2202 words)

  
 Jonathan Pollard
Pollard nevertheless pled guilty on June 4, 1986.
Alan Dershowitz argued that Pollard’s sentence was far greater than the average term imposed for spying for the Soviet Union and other enemies of the United States.
Pollard's supporters in the United States also routinely request that he be pardoned.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/US-Israel/pollard.html   (1394 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Jonathan Pollard: Clinton's book lies about me
Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, was convicted of one count of passing classified information to an ally, Israel, and sentenced to life imprisonment in spite of a plea agreement that was to spare Pollard a life sentence.
Pollard's sentence is considered by many to be disproportionate to the crime for which he was convicted – he is the only person in the history of the United States to receive a life sentence for spying for an ally.
Pollard's sentence was largely thought to have been driven by a last-minute secret memorandum from Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, in which he accused Pollard of treason –; a crime for which he was never indicted – and claimed Pollard harmed America's national security.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39117   (917 words)

  
 Easterbrook
Pollard has become an icon to the lunatic Israeli right, to the same sick crowd that cheered the assassination of the great Israeli patriot Yizthak Rabin and who cheered the revolting mass murderer Baruch Goldstein.
First, why Pollard is a turncoat in every sense: In America, both by the Constitution and by the ideal of freedom, Pollard or anyone else is free to hate the United States and its culture; to have true sympathies for some other nation; to work against the interests of the United States.
Pollard maintains that the documents he direct-marketed to Israel warned that nation that the nuclear threat from Iraq and Iran was greater than commonly known at the time (the mid-1980s).
www.tnr.com /easterbrook.mhtml?pid=701   (1081 words)

  
 The Truth About Jonathan Pollard
Pollard hadn't meant for this to happen, but the result of the "false flag" mistake was mass murder.
In fact, as Pollard himself admitted in one of my three prison interviews, many, if not most, of the documents he handed over were cover sheets showing the titles of files that the U.S. was supposed to share with Israel, but were holding back.
Pollard has admitted -- to me and in writing to President Clinton -- that he was wrong and stupid in passing the information to Israel on his own, but in the long run he may have committed the most unpardonable sin of all: He was right and the bureaucrats were wrong.
www.aish.com /societyWork/society/The_Truth_About_Jonathan_Pollard.asp   (3539 words)

  
 Jonathan Pollard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
The case for the release of Jonathan Pollard has taken on a new twist with the recent publication of an article by noted author and former Justice Department attorney, John Loftus, in which he claims that Pollard’s severe punishment can be attributed to heretofore unknown information, and for which he was deliberately framed.
Pollard has admitted—to me and in writing to President Clinton—that he was wrong and stupid in passing the information to Israel on his own, but in the long run he may have committed the most unpardonable sin of all: He was right and the bureaucrats were wrong.
Pollard gave a great deal of data that would confirm that those names were indeed the actual names of spies and not an American disinformation scheme, because he dealt with a lot of "methods and sources" material.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/974868/posts   (14374 words)

  
 Jonathan Pollard
What he did, and for a long time succeeded at it, was to use Jonathan Pollard as a scape goat to cover himself.
Pollard's treasonous behavior." Jonathan Pollard was NEVER accused of treason.
In 1996, Jonathan received Israeli citizenship and in 1998 the Israeli government, for the first time, publically stated that Jonathan Pollard had been working as an Israeli agent.
www.jewishxpress.com /issue26/pollard.htm   (814 words)

  
 Jonathan Pollard Israel
Pollard, who was privy to the now embargoed intelligence, believed that Israel faced the specter of chemical and biological warfare attacks from these countries.
Pollard claims that he considered all legal venues for ending the embargo but felt that informing the media, testifying before Congress or involving the US Jewish leadership of the situation would all be ineffective.
For Pollard, who expected to be protected by Israel if caught, it is the treatment he has received from the Israeli government that surprises and disturbs him more than the harsh and disproportionate punishment that he has received from US authorities.
www.israelnewsagency.com /jonathanpollardisrael6490428.html   (3102 words)

  
 Jonathan Pollard a False Flag Superstar
The main reason that the Pollard saga raises its ugly head is that another trial balloon is being floated to pardon the mole.
“Pollard was paid well by the Israelis: he received a salary that eventually reached twenty-five hundred dollars a month, and tens of thousands of dollars in cash disbursements for hotels, meals, and even jewelry.
Pollard's handing over of the data had a clear impact, the expert told me, for "we could see the whole process" -- of intelligence collection -- "slowing down." It also hindered the United States' ability to recruit foreign agents.
www.batr.org /gulag/041805.html   (1277 words)

  
 Pollard, Jonathan - The Peace Encyclopedia
Then Pollard was kept in prison to prevent him from telling the American people the truth about his actions and about the torture he suffered at the hands of his cruel jailers.
Arafat is reported to have told Clinton, during one of their private conversations, that Pollard should not be released until the Israelis agree to a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
Last, but certainly not least, is the Pollard affair and the failure of American Jews to recognize that what they were witnessing, 100 years after the Dreyfus affair, was America's pillorying of a Jew because he is Jewish.
peace.heebz.com /pollard.html   (1070 words)

  
 israelinsider: Views: House Arrest for Jonathan Pollard?
Esther Pollard is the wife of Jonathan Pollard, serving his 21th year of a life sentence for his activities on behalf of Israel.
House arrest for Jonathan Pollard in light of the profound injustice of this case is an absurd proposal.
However, and notwithstanding all of the foregoing, the single most cogent factor in the ongoing persecution of Jonathan Pollard is the failure of the Government of Israel to step up to the plate and demand his release.
web.israelinsider.com /Views/9630.htm   (1058 words)

  
 Jonathan Pollard Was No Jewish Patriot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
FBI investigators discovered Pollard was being directed to steal specific secret data by a senior administration official, known as "Mr.
Pollard's defenders claim he, like French Capt. Alfred Dreyfus in 1894, is a victim of anti-Semitism in the military.
Jonathan Pollard is a traitor of the worst kind - not a second Dreyfus - and should stay in prison.
www.aci.net /kalliste/pollard_em.htm   (653 words)

  
 israelinsider: Views: Who Cares About Jonathan Pollard?
That Pollard is Jewish and his goal was to help Israel are beside the point: anyone subjected to the same unfair treatment, in which a plea agreement was blatantly abrogated in favor of a shockingly disproportionate punishment (the average sentence for his offense is 2-4 years), deserves redress.
While the Pollard case may have stained the image it has of itself and strained its exceptionally cordial relationship with their government - if our leaders were truly confident of their place in American society they should make loud and clear demands for fair treatment.
What has kept Pollard going all these years is largely the support and encouragement of his wife, Esther; his rabbi, Mordecai Eliyahu (the former Chief Rabbi of Israel); and a small cadre of supporters around the world.
web.israelinsider.com /Views/8741.htm   (1030 words)

  
 Salon Newsreal | A conversation with Jonathan Pollard
In May 1998, Netanyahu publicly acknowledged what had been evident all along; that Pollard had not been a rogue spy during the 1980s but an official Israeli operative whose mission was known at the highest levels of the government in Jerusalem.
Among the influential Republicans from whom Pollard insists Edelshtein received a sympathetic response to his appeal on behalf of Pollard was Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
She noted that even in a post-Wye interview on CNN in which Hatch criticized the tying of Pollard into the negotiations, he nevertheless "was much more conciliatory toward Jonathan than Gingrich had been.
www.salon.com /news/1998/11/30news2.html   (1184 words)

  
 Justice for Jonathan Pollard
On November 21, 2006 Jonathan Pollard entered his 22nd year of a life sentence for his activities on behalf of Israel.
The median sentence for the offense Pollard committed - one count of passing classified information to an ally - is 2 to 4 years.
Jonathan Pollard received his life sentence without benefit of trial, as a result of a plea bargain which he honored and the U.S. government violated.
www.jonathanpollard.org   (238 words)

  
 Spy Jonathan Pollard caught on tape - Lisa Myers & the NBC Investigative Unit - MSNBC.com
Spy Jonathan Pollard caught on tape - Lisa Myers and the NBC Investigative Unit - MSNBC.com
Though Pollard confessed to the crime, leaders of Israel and Pollard's supporters in the U.S. have vigorously lobbied to get him released from prison or pardoned, arguing that he was, after all, spying for a friend of the U.S., not a sworn enemy.
Pollard was sentenced to life in prison and has served 20 years.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/15222134   (555 words)

  
 How To Help Jonathan Pollard
Make sure that prayers for the immediate release of Jonathan Pollard (Yehonatan ben Malka) is a regular part of your communal prayers and your own.
Pray for Jonathan Pollard's swift return to Israel and his reunion with his wife Esther (Esther Yocheved Bas Rayzl Bracha).
The Pollard Affair - To Free A Captive Is To Free G-d
www.jonathanpollard.org /help.htm   (513 words)

  
 All about Jonathan Pollard by Denise Noe
Both were terrified that they would soon be arrested on charges of espionage — unless they could get to the Israeli embassy in time.
They came back to the Pollards with surprising and distressing news.
Finally the anguished Pollard turned the car around and drove it out of the embassy but that was as far as the the couple got.
www.crimelibrary.com /terrorists_spies/spies/pollard/1.html   (912 words)

  
 Jonathan Pollard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At the time, Israel publicly denied any connection to Pollard.
" (Pollard's public letter of remorse of June 6, 1991, addressed to his parents but published widely in newspapers)
However he was not charged with these accusations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jonathan_Pollard   (2591 words)

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