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Jan. 14, 1999
Jonathan Pollard was no Jewish Patriot
By Eric Margolis
Miami - The case of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Jay Pollard has again reared
its ugly head. American Jewish groups, Hollywood celebrities, and Israel have
renewed intense 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 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 recently threatened to resign if Pollard
is pardoned. Seven former US secretaries of defense, some of whom are Jewish,
also demanded Pollard remain in prison for life.
After years of denials, Israel finally admitted Pollard, a US Navy civilian
analyst, was not a 'rogue agent,' as it originally claimed, but a spy for
Israeli intelligence.
Pollard caused enormous damage to US national security. He gave Israel top
secret US military, intelligence, and diplomatic codes; names of nearly one
hundred of US agents in the Mideast, who were then 'turned' by Israel; NSA code-
breaking techniques and targets; intercepts of foreign communications; and US
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 agent's names
were linked to the secrets they supplied - a major breach of basic intelligence
security - remains a major mystery. Some of the enormously sensitive secrets
stolen by Pollard were reportedly either sold, or bartered, by Israel to the
Soviet Union.
A number of key CIA agents in the East Bloc were reportedly executed as a result
of Pollard spying. KGB likely gained access to top-secret US 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
American 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 US
government officials caught passing top secret information to Israel have been
similarly hushed up. Two were senior defense department officials under Reagan,
one a top State Department official in a previous administration. None were
prosecuted.
Pollard's defenders claim he, like Capt. Dreyfus, 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 and his accomplice wife took large sums of money and
jewelry from Israeli agents in payment for spying.
With remarkable chutzpah, Israel, which receives $4-5 billion in US aid
annually, refuses to return documents stolen by Pollard, or allow US
intelligence to debrief Mossad agents who ran Pollard in order to learn the full
extent of the disaster. While Netanyahu kept calling for Pollard's release on
"humanitarian" grounds, he refused to free Israeli 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 grubby little 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 exposes all American Jews to hate, and accusations of doubtful
loyalty.
Jonathan Pollard is a Judas - not a second Dreyfus - and should stay in prison.
(c) Copyright: Eric Margolis, 1998
