TESTIMONY REGARDING JONATHAN POLLARD  2014

I have had no connection ever with Jonathan Pollard or with his prosecution. I was not a close follower of the case in the media. My original reaction was “he is a traitor, lock him up and throw away the key.” Also, I was extremely  upset at Israel for utilizing a Jewish agent which gives the anti-Semites in State, CIA, etc. (who are plentiful) the ability to voice the mantra of “dual loyalty”.  ( Internet examples:Zionist Spies Against America ;Rense    Ukrainian Revisionism ; Jewish spies against America: a long tradition; Pentagon: We thought engineer was Israeli spy because he's a Jew;  Israeli Spying: The Mother of all Scandals }

After 25 years, the CIA has declassified documents that show that the  multitude of  public" leaks" and Weinberger's accusations against Pollard were all   false----Jonathan Pollard never spied on the U.S. for Israel" . The 1987 CIA report  reveals that Israel never requested information from Pollard concerning “US military activities, plans, capabilities or equipment.” and that Pollard did not procure secrets about the United States. . Pollard did not compromise agents. He did not compromise means and sources .  He did not compromise any information relating to US  forces.  All the information he transmitted  to his Israeli handlers consisted of the information that the United States had acquired relating to Arab equipment, capabilities, etc.

 IN OTHER WORDS, VERY SIMPLY, HE COMPROMISED “DEFENSE INFORMATION” BUT DID NOT SPY AGAINST THE UNITED STATES.

 U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger (long regarded most of us who worked with him as antagonistic toward the Jewish state),intimidated to the court that Pollard gave information to the Soviets.  The assumption was  that "means and sources "information was being transmitted to the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union fell we found out that our assumptions that the Soviet Union had penetrated Israeli intelligence and that US intelligence going to Israel was in fact ending up in the Soviet Union were FALSE.--Later, we came to learn that this was the doing of Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames.} 

What was Pollard  actually indicted for? What was he actually guilty of?…..In a recent article appearing on-line Prof. Angelo Codevilla, a staff member of the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time Jonathan Pollard was arrested is quoted:“Having been intimately acquainted with the materials that Pollard passed and with the sources and methods by which they were gathered, I would be willing to give expert testimony that Pollard is guilty of neither more nor less than what the indictment alleges. 

The actions of the prosecution were criminal  and are a threat to the foundations of America's criminal justice system.

     *Judge Aubrey Eugene Robinson Jr.  illegally conducted back channel communications with the prosecution who inflamed Judge Robinson by telling him (falsely) that Pollard had provided security information to South Africa. 

     *  Judge Robinson sentenced Jonathan Pollard to life in prison in 1987, claiming that information provided by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger showed that Pollard's spying on behalf of Israel had caused significant damage to American security interests.

     *Pollard's Defense (regardless of the level of their security clearances ) were never given access to these charges nor afforded an opportunity to rebut them. As individual accusations leaked out they have been all successfully rebutted. 

WHAT IS THE APPROPRIATE AND COMPARABLE PUNISHMENT FOR HIS ACTUAL TRANSGRESSIONS?During the same time period  a spy caught working for Saudi Arabia (a Navy officer named Schwarz-not Jewish- where the intelligence did in fact go to an enemy power-and was very harmful to US military interests) received a dishonorable discharge and nothing further as punishment 

     One of the major reasons for incarcerating Pollard-and thus holding him as hostage-was the widespread belief (spread by Aldrich Ames to cover his own tracks) that there was a 2nd Israeli mole inside the CIA. U.S. officials  repeatedly, publicly claimed that Pollard was not working alone when he spied for Israel and  the United States therefore  should make Pollard's release conditional on Israel acknowledging this"BASELESS." claim. 

     WHAT ADDS TO THIS OUTRAGE IS THAT THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION KNOWS FULL WELL THE FACTS AND HAS ELECTED EXPLICITLY TO CONTINUE JONATHAN POLLARD'S IMPRISONMENT IN ORDER TO KEEP HIM AS DENNIS ROSS DESCRIBED AS A “BARGAINING CHIP”.

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NOTICE: This e-mail is unclassified. It does not contain  any privileged and/or confidential information..THIS NOT AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF ANY US GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OR AGENCY

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