JONATHAN POLLARD UPDATE 8-6-19
Larry Korb, James Woosley, George Schultz, and many other other former high ranking non-Jewish US government leaders have called for Pollard's release Korb stated:" I worked for Casper Weinberger. He was an anti-Semite. The evaluation memo was written in part Aldrich Ames which served as a cover-up for his own espionage. These facts are on the record."
Lawrence Korb, who was assistant secretary of defense when Jonathan Pollard was arrested in 1985, says Pollard's punishment was "disproportionate" • Korb: It's time for the Israeli public to make its voice heard to U.S. President Barack Obama.
Korb was assistant secretary of defense when Pollard was arrested by U.S. authorities in 1985. Pollard was later convicted of spying for Israel and sentenced to life in prison.
Korb, now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress think tank in Washington, is currently visiting Israel. He met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres earlier this week.
"Pollard is the only person in U.S. history to be served a life sentence for spying for a friendly country," Korb said. "Israel is undoubtedly a friend, not an enemy. The average sentence for spying for a friendly country is only a few years. He needs to be released not because of interests, but because it is the right thing to do."
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SEE: Pollard Defenders Vindicated
After 25 years, the CIA has declassified documents that show Jonathan Pollard never spied on the U.S. for Israel
By Lee Smith|December 20, 2012
Insiders confirm that the current barrage of publicity concerning the Jonathan Pollard' release is being stage-managed by the [ Obama] White House to suck the oxygen out of the current discussion of the Iranian nuclear deal.
This barrage is fully intended to surface the original storm of (unfounded) accusations of extensive Israeli spying on the United States; dual loyalty, etc. it is also meant to divide and distract the Jewish community.
Originally, I was part of the group that said: “lock him up forever and throw away the key.” Subsequently, I became much more familiar with what he did AND WHAT HE DID NOT DO.
Dennis Ross very publicly advised the Obama administration to utilize Pollard as a “bargaining chip”.
Pollard's original trial was tainted. The judge and the prosecution met back-channel and the judge (black)accepted as fact the accusation that Pollard was working with South Africa as well as other unsworn and uncross-examined allegations against Jonathan Pollard.The last parole hearing was a farce. The government knowingly Introduced false evidence. All of this has since been documented in the open record
1st Key point: None of the information that Pollard gave Israel pertained to US forces; US capabilities; US operatives and/or operations, etc. None was ever compromised to the Soviet Union or any other adversary of the United States All of the information that Pollard provided dealt with the organization and capabilities of Arab military forces.
2nd key point: subsequent US complaints (and leaks) of Israeli spying against the US centered on Israeli successful countermeasures against the CIA's spying of an attempted penetration of Israeli military and intelligence agencies.
About the time of the Pollard case, a naval officer named Schwartz
(non-Jewish) was caught spying for Saudi Arabia. His information was detrimental to the United States defense AND it went to the Soviet Union. Because the Saudi Arabians stood up to the US, Schwartz was never punished.
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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 Israeli 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”. (Examples:Zionist Spies Against America - Rense Ukrainian Revisionism - Jewish spies against America: a long tradition .
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.
The actions of the prosecution were criminal and are a threat to the foundations of America's criminal justice system.
*Basic questions relating to the Pollard case are: What was Polla
{ U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger (long regarded by Israel 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.} 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.
*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.
{ U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger (long regarded by Israel 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.}
*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”.
I was involved in the Kadish case for the DOD and DOJ. They assumed that every document Kadish ever read was compromised. Thus I reviewed the 200+ documents that he had requisitioned. Nearly all were at the "Official Use Only" level. All dealt with logistical support details. None were sensitive. The only documents on "nuclear materials” dealt with the physical mating of the missiles with the aircraft systems (which wire was attached to which wire and which hose was attached to which hose.) Any connection to Pollard was far-fetched. Kadish pled guilty in a deal that permitted him to keep all his retirement and benefits and involved no jail time or other civil penalties. At that time I wrote an article which was published on this case
(This sensational (not correct) article was typical: "Ex-U.S. ARMY engineer Kadish pleads guilty to spying for israel… Kadish charged with slipping classified documents about nuclear weapons to Israeli consulate employee in 1980s…. by the associated press Dec. 30, 2008 )
I am also familiar with the AIPAC/Larry Franklin case. Franklin (not Jewish) was accused of providing “top secret policy materials” to AIPAC (and presumably to Israel). As there was no US policy at that time---we were all circulating drafts attempting to influence US policy--nothing was classified. In fact, I received drafts containing much more “defense materials” from Robert Gates and from Zbigniew Brzezinski .
The judge eventually dismissed all charges against Stephen Rosen and Keith Weissman. The judge lashed into the persecution for their underhanded and unethical behavior.
Legal experts said the government was wrong in the first place for trying to criminalize the kind of information horse-trading that long has occurred in Washington.
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Pollard, unable to care for sick wife, turns to Netanyahu to help end his parole
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August 6, 2019
More on Pollard, unable to care for sick wife, turns to Netanyahu to help end his parole
Jonathan Pollard pleads with Netanyahu to ask Trump to release him from parole so he can take care of his wife.
By Batya Jerenberg
Jonathan Pollard has asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to call U.S. President Donald Trump personally to ask for his release, Channel 12 revealed Monday in an exclusive interview with the former American-Israeli spy.
Just two and a half months after accusing the Israeli government in general and Netanyahu in particular of not caring about him enough to maintain contact with him or bring up his name with the president, Pollard apparently decided to become proactive because his wife is very ill.
“It’s a very important topic that must be spoken about and publicized now — it’s a matter of life and death,” Pollard said. “It’s a huge humanitarian issue, a crisis that my wife and I are going through.”
Esther Pollard has contracted breast cancer for the third time, he explained, and this time it spread to other parts of her body. His stringent parole conditions, such as having to be at home from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., limit his ability to care for his wife.
“We want her to be treated in a hospital in Brooklyn,” he told the interviewer, whom he invited to his home. “But I’m not mobile…. If something happens in the middle of the night, I can’t leave the apartment with her.”
Pollard got in touch with Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer in Washington, who quickly arranged a phone call with the prime minister.
Pollard, who turns 65 on Wednesday, gave Netanyahu “a detailed medical report” on his wife and requested that the prime minister personally intervene on the couple’s behalf.
“He answered that he intends to get involved in the matter. He was in shock when he heard about it,” Pollard said. “I hope that the president will commute my probation so I can take care of my wife.”
“I can’t imagine Netanyahu not making an effective call. I can’t imagine Trump refusing,” he added.
The former U.S. intelligence analyst who spent three decades in prison for passing classified information to Israel suffers from kidney and liver ailments himself. But, as he put it, “Esther has been fighting for my life for 30 years. Now it’s my turn.”
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