Thirteen Jews originally were arrested on espionage charges in the winter of 1999. Many of the accused \”confessed\” to the charges, though Jewish groups scoffed at the idea that the confessions were offered freely. Several later recanted.
It must be close to 10 years ago that I met with Dr. Morris Pollard to talk about his son, Jonathan, then serving the life sentence he had been given in 1986 for stealing government secrets and passing them along to Israel.
Jewish leaders often lust for media attention, but mention the Jonathan Pollard case, and most dive for cover.
Israel\’s admission last week that convicted spyJonathan Pollard had been an Israeli agent when he was arrested inWashington in November 1985 has greatly increased his chances ofrelease. Pollard, who was denied sanctuary in the Israeli Embassy asfederal agents closed in on him, had until last week been disowned bythe Israeli government.
Imagine that it is 1940, and Great Britain is fighting Hitler\’s Nazi Germany almost alone. Imagine, further, that an American who loves both America and England and hates the Nazis works in American intelligence and has access to secret files concerning Germany that, for whatever reason, the United States has not shared with Great Britain. This American gives the secrets to England and is caught.
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