Nameless Victims Executed to Produce anti-Soviet SigInt "Bible" betrayed by Jonathan Pollard to the U.S.S.R., now Celebrity Interview Subject

Dr. Naomi Wolf interview "Are Allies of Israel being Targeted?" w/ Jonathan Pollard who betrayed U.S. SigInt "Bible" to Israel & U.S.S.R. which cost American Lives to Assemble

Today Dr. Naomi Wolf conducted a laudatory interview on the topic "Are Allies of Israel being Targeted?" with convicted spy, Jonathan Pollard, animated-gif video thumbnail below.

Pollard had betrayed the U.S. SigInt 'Bible' to Israel, which in turn gave it to the Soviets, its subjects.

The answer is "No", to the question, "do we know the identities of any of those who died to produce the SigInt "Bible" which Pollard betrayed to the U.S.S.R. through Israel?"

The betrayal committed by Jonathan Pollard—delivering to Israel what has been described as the crown jewels of American signals intelligence (SigInt), including the National SIGINT Requirements List (NSRL), a compendium often referred to informally as the “SigInt Bible”—was not just a breach of classification protocols. It was a calculated act of espionage that exposed deep structural compromises in the U.S. intelligence apparatus.

The fact that Israel, a supposed ally, passed this treasure trove of intelligence on to the Soviet Union—America's principal adversary during the Cold War—is an act tantamount to treason by proxy.

Yet rather than being universally reviled, Pollard has been lauded in certain Israeli circles as a hero. Now, we have the grotesque spectacle of Dr. Naomi Wolf—a formerly respected figure in dissident politics—offering him a platform for a glowing interview under the theme "Are Allies of Israel Being Targeted?" The moral inversion is staggering: the man who facilitated the deaths of America’s assets is rebranded as a victim.

The Real Victims

Let’s examine the real victims—the nameless, faceless individuals who died because of Pollard’s treachery. Unfortunately, due to the highly classified nature of the operations compromised, the U.S. government has never released an official list of the individuals who were executed or eliminated as a direct consequence of the intelligence leak.

But from multiple leaks, testimonies, and analyses by intelligence officials over the years, we know this much:

This chain of betrayal likely resulted in the compromise of U.S. surveillance assets in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Although no official roll call of the dead has ever been made public, it is highly probable that double agents, local informants, and possibly even Americans stationed at compromised outposts were executed by Soviet or allied regimes.

And now, the man responsible is not only free but valorized by media figures like Wolf.

The Real Question

The question should not be whether allies of Israel are being “targeted,” but why Israel and its operatives in the United States have been so consistently shielded from accountability. Why are figures like Wolf—once seen as truth-tellers—now shilling for an individual whose espionage materially aided the KGB?

This is not a partisan issue; it is a question of loyalty, of betrayal, and of the uncomfortable reality that American foreign policy is, at times, written not in Washington, but in Tel Aviv. The lack of any accountability for the dead—those who contributed to the SigInt “Bible” and paid with their lives—speaks volumes about where the true allegiances lie within our political and media establishment.

Pollard’s sentence was based on butt-covering by the US intelligence community, who needed a Jew on whom they could blame the dismantling of their Soviet agent network. Only later, with Ames’s and Hanssen’s arrests, did it become clear Pollard was a scapegoat for the FBI’s and the CIA’s missteps. What Pollard discovered for Israel was the identities of Arab spies and operatives that the CIA, but not the Mossad knew about, including the terrorists the Saudis sponsored, who later carried out 9/11. His apprehension was in fact the result of colleagues being curious about his excessive retrievals of classified files related to the Middle East.

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[Pollard’s life sentence is based on a humongous Washington whopper of a lie.

When American intelligence broke the Soviet wartime code, we learned that the Soviets had infiltrated the American government. The American intelligence community’s penchant for secrecy and its refusal to admit that it had been infiltrated was so great that it failed to disclose this to President Harry S. Truman. This is how Daniel Patrick Moynihan described it:

“The Soviets knew we knew they knew we knew. The only one who didn’t know was the President of the United States. Our politics was injured for 30 years by this.”-Quoted in the New York Times, March 30, 2002

There is a good reason why neither Congress nor the American Jewish leadership supports the release of Jonathan Pollard from prison: They all were told a lie — a humongous Washington whopper of a lie. The lie was first whispered in the “bubble,” the secret intelligence briefing room on Capitol Hill, but it quickly spread.

Just before Pollard’s sentencing, Senator Chic Hecht of Nevada, a senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, telephoned the leaders of every major Jewish organization to warn them not to support Pollard in any way. Pollard had done something so horrible that it could never be made public. Several senior intelligence sources confirmed the message: No matter how harsh the sentence, Jewish leaders had to keep their mouths shut; don’t make a martyr out of Jonathan Pollard.

Washington insiders thought they knew the big, dark secret: secret documents confirming that Pollard’s spying had resulted in the loss of lives of U.S. intelligence agents.

Pollard had supposedly given Israel a list of every American spy inside the Soviet Union. On several occasions Soviet agents in New York had posed as Israelis. The CIA reasoned that that was also true in Israel: The Mossad had been infiltrated by one or more Soviet spies. In the trade this is called a “false flag” operation: Your enemy poses as your ally and steals your secrets. In this case, the CIA reasoned in attempting to explain its horrendous losses, Pollard had passed the information to Israel he had stolen, which in turn fell victim to the “false flag” operation. Soviet agents in Israel, posing as Israeli intelligence agents, passed the information to Moscow, which then wiped out American human assets in the Soviet Union.

Pollard hadn’t meant for this to happen, but the result of the “false flag” mistake was mass murder. In a matter of months, every spy we had in Russia — more than 40 agents — had been captured or killed. At least that was the accusation, but the basis for it had been kept secret from Pollard and his defense counsel.

The public could not be told the horrifying truth: American intelligence had gone blind behind the Iron Curtain — we had lost all our networks, as the intelligence community publicly admitted more than a decade later. The Soviets could have attacked the United States without warning. Everyone who knew at the time (including me) blamed Pollard.

Caspar Weinberger later said that he wished Pollard had been shot.

On March 5, 1987, at 2:22 p.m., the sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., began in Criminal Case No. 86-207, United States of America v. Jonathan Jay Pollard. The prosecutors produced a secret letter and memo from Secretary of Defense Caspar “Cap” Weinberger referring to the “enormous” harm that Pollard had done to our national security. In his memo, Weinberger directly accused Pollard of betraying America’s “sources and methods,” which is to say, he had betrayed our spies in foreign countries.

Weinberger publicly stated that Pollard was the worst spy in American history: “It is difficult for me, even in the so-called year of the spy, to conceive of a greater harm to national security than that caused by the defendant.” Despite his plea agreement to the contrary with the government, Pollard was given the maximum sentence, life in prison. Weinberger later said that he wished Pollard had been shot.

A week after the sentencing, the Washington Times reported that the United States had identified Shabtai Kalmanovich as the Soviet spy in Israel who supposedly worked for the Mossad but was actually working for the KGB; he had betrayed American secrets to Moscow. Kalmanovich had been flying under a false flag. Washington insiders winked knowingly at one another: Pollard’s contact in Israel had been caught.

Just to make sure that Pollard was blamed, U.S. intelligence sources, several months later, leaked word to the press of the Kalmanovich connection. “A Russian mole has infiltrated the Mossad and is transmitting highly sensitive American intelligence information to the Russians,” was the report flashed around the world by United Press International on Dec. 14, 1987. Citing “American intelligence sources,” the UPI announced that the “sensitive intelligence material relayed to Israel by Jonathan Pollard had reached the KGB.”

But it was all untrue. The Jew didn’t do it. It was one of their own WASPs — Aldrich Ames, a drunken senior CIA official who sold the names of America’s agents to the Russians for cash.

But it was all untrue. Every bit of it. Pollard wasn’t the serial killer. The Jew didn’t do it. It was one of their own WASPs — Aldrich Ames, a drunken senior CIA official who sold the names of America’s agents to the Russians for cash. Pollard was framed for Ames’s crime, while Ames kept on drinking and spying for the Soviets for several more years. In fact, Israeli intelligence later suspected that Ames played a direct role in framing Pollard. But no one in America then knew the truth.

Ames was arrested in February 1994, and confessed to selling out American agents in the Soviet Union, but not all of them. It was only logical to assume that Pollard had betrayed the rest of them, as one former CIA official admitted shortly after Ames’s arrest. Even one life lost was too many. So Pollard continued to rot in jail. No one dreamed that yet another high-level Washington insider had sold us out to Soviet intelligence. Years passed, and eventually a Russian defector told the truth. A senior FBI official — Special Agent Robert Hanssen — had betrayed the rest of our agents. Hanssen was arrested in February 2001, and soon confessed in order to avoid the death penalty. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Would the Americans now admit that they had been conned into blaming Pollard? Beltway bureaucrats do not readily admit to mistakes of this magnitude. Instead, they convinced themselves that Pollard might still be at least partly to blame for the worst debacle in U.S. intelligence history. One desperate analyst from the National Security Council, looking for something to pin on Pollard, had his own theory. Maybe the Russians didn’t initially believe that their own spies (Ames and Hanssen) had procured all the names of U.S. agents in the Soviet Union. Maybe Pollard’s list tipped the scales.

Such things had happened before. Once again, Washington insiders circled their alphabet agencies to fire back at the critics who dared to suggest that Pollard might have been innocent of the major charge against him.

Meanwhile, deep inside the Navy’s intelligence service, a low-level decision was made to re-examine the Pollard case in view of the convictions of Ames and Hanssen. With sickening chagrin, the Navy discovered that the evidence needed to clear Pollard had been under its nose all along.

As my source in Naval intelligence explained, the list of our secret agents inside Russia had been kept in a special safe in a special room with a special “blue stripe” clearance needed for access. When I was a lawyer in the Justice Department and would be sent over to the CIA to do research, I was permitted to use only a blue-striped, CIA-issue legal pad for note-taking. Nothing with a blue stripe could leave the building without being scrutinized by CIA security.

But Jonathan Pollard didn’t have “blue stripe” clearance, according to intelligence sources I spoke with. That was the bombshell that would clear him of any possible connection to the deaths of our Russian agents.

Just to make sure, I checked it out, even visiting Pollard in prison to confirm it. Sure enough, there is no way on earth Jonathan Pollard could have entered the file room, let alone the safe where the list was kept.

But the intelligence community’s failure to catch this and thereby discredit a critical piece of prosecutorial evidence was, to put it mildly, a bit of an oversight. Some would say it was an obscene blunder. I regard it as an understandable mistake that was overlooked in the avalanche of phony evidence the KGB was planting that pointed to Pollard and away from Ames and Hanssen, whom the Soviets wanted to protect. Both of them had “blue stripe” clearance, as was well documented in several books that have been written on each man and his exploits.

The lack of “blue stripe” clearance was the final proof that Pollard could not possibly have betrayed our Russian agents. It should certainly have gotten him a new hearing. As a former federal prosecutor, I can state that it would be hard to rebut this kind of evidence.

The Justice Department, in one of its briefs, had specifically mentioned the “false flag” theory as grounds to support Pollard’s heavy sentence, arguing in part, that spying even for friendly countries can be damaging if information ultimately falls into the wrong hands. In this, the Justice Department had unwittingly misled the judge. Weinberger also raised the “false flag” issue in his top-secret memorandum to the judge.

The only possible way to uphold the sentence might be the “harmless error” doctrine. The government could admit that Pollard had never stolen the Russian agent list, but so what? Maybe he had passed other information that was equally damaging, so he would still deserve to remain in prison for the rest of his life.

The problem with the “harmless error” strategy is that the rest of the material that Pollard gave the Israelis was itself pretty harmless.

In fact, the original damage assessment from the intelligence community confirmed that the impact on our national security — of the release of information other than the agent names-was not serious. This assessment came after Pollard’s initial grand jury appearance, but before the Soviets began to frame Pollard with the phony Kalmanovich connection. No less a figure than Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Leeper had characterized damage caused by the release of the information that Pollard actually gave Israel as “minimal.”

The reason America suffered so little harm is simple: Pollard was stealing Soviet secrets for Israel, not American secrets for the Soviets. Before the fall of communism, the Soviets were shipping guns to nearly every terrorist group in the Middle East. Pollard knew that U.S. intelligence had been ordered to share this information with Israel — under an executive order signed by President Reagan — but had not done so.

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. (The U.S. government, according to Israeli intelligence sources, mistakenly counted the cover sheets as if they were full files and came up with the mythical “room full of stolen documents,” instead of the small boxfulls or so that Pollard actually passed.) In the long run, though, the issue is not how many boxes Pollard passed, but whether anything he gave Israel did harm to America.

After the government’s “false flag” theory was blown up by the “blue stripe” discovery, the anti-Pollard members of the intelligence community had to come up with a new PR campaign for damage control. In order to justify Pollard’s life sentence, they had to show that he did do some potentially catastrophic damage to America. What they came up with was a bit of a stretch. Pollard had given Israel a set of radio frequency guidebooks, a worldwide listing of short-wave radio bands. It takes a lot of time and money to compile one of these guides, but essentially they are just publicly available information, openly deduced by listening to who is talking to whom on which radio bands.]

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