A number of key CIA agents in the East Bloc were allegedly executed as a result of Pollard's spying.........
Untrue. Pollard had no access to this list of our spies in USSR. CIA favorite Aldrich Ames did. Go blame him.
http://www.john-loftus.com/pollard_article.asp 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
A number of key CIA agents in the East Bloc were allegedly executed as a result of Pollard's spying.........Untrue. Pollard had no access to this list of our spies in USSR. CIA favorite Aldrich Ames did. Go blame him.
Ames may have passed that list, but Pollard's information helped confirm its accuracy much faster than the KGB would have done so unassisted.