[Criminal Number 18F]

Boy, is this story full of spin. It's dead wrong on one fact and missing a few others:

• Pollard was paid from the get-go. He did it for the money.
• Israel was Pollard's third choice. He previously approached the Russians, who took the teaser of information he offered but decided he was under American control so did not offer him anything, and the Chinese, who were not prepared to pay him.
• Pollard was indeed offered a plea bargain, contingent on cooperation. He then was caught trying to mislead the damage-assessment team and was adjudged non-cooperative.
• Material that he gave to the Israelis wound up, either through Russian penetration of the Israeli services or [more likely] Israeli remarketing of the information, in Soviet/Russian hands where it posed a mortal threat to American lives.

In the final analysis, the man is a traitor and ought to have been executed. The Israelis are trying hard to ransom him or spring him with all these lawyers, as a means to encourage their other agents in the US military and intelligence agencies.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[truthandjustice1]

"as a means to encourage their other agents in the US military and intelligence agencies."

hmmmmmm

[RKV]

"where it posed a mortal threat to American lives" - as I recall it got some of our agents killed when the Israelis sold the info.

http://www.aci.net/kalliste/pollard_em.htm

[Poohbah]

Material that he gave to the Israelis wound up, either through Russian penetration of the Israeli services or [more likely] Israeli remarketing of the information, in Soviet/Russian hands where it posed a mortal threat to American lives.

IIRC, the man believed to be Pollard's katsa (controller or case officer) was arrested about a week after Pollard went to prison. He was spying for the Russians. He's been staying in the Israeli Graybar Resort ever since.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

The trouble with Pollard was that the info he stoled and subsequently sold ended up in Russian hands. Some speculate that it was given to them so that they would allow Russian Jews to continue to emigrate to Israel

I have no way of knowing what the information was, but it caused the United States to expend thousands if not tens of thousand of hours of technical and scientific effort to change what Pollard had revealed. The loss, literally, was immeasurable.

I agree that Pollard should have been executed. Since he wasn't, he should be kept securely locked away until he meets his maker and then receives a reward based on his merit.

[af_vet_1981]

The Israelis are trying hard to ransom him or spring him with all these lawyers, as a means to encourage their other agents in the US military and intelligence agencies.

Which Israelis are you referring to ?

Who do you think their other agents in the US military and intelligence agencies are ?