BE-related: Jonathan Pollard released

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/21/why-is-the-gop-so-silent-over-pollard.html



On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> "Israel doesn't spy on us? Remember the Pollard case back in 1985? Even
> left-wing papers like the /New York Times/ carried that story, Ms. Tarnow."
>
> BE, 105.
>
> "He was spirited out of a federal prison on Friday under cover of night,
> eluding witnesses in a cloak-and-dagger coda to a spy story that has
> strained relations between two allies for three decades.
>
> But while Jonathan J. Pollard, one of the most notorious spies of the late
> Cold War, tried to stay out of sight after emerging from custody almost as
> if from a time machine, the United States and Israel hoped his release
> would finally heal a long-festering open wound in their partnership.
>
> (...)
>
> In June 1984, he began passing suitcases of classified documents to
> Israeli handlers, including information on Arab and Soviet weaponry as well
> as satellite photographs. A manual he gave handlers provided a guide to
> American signals intelligence, media reports said. He was paid tens of
> thousands of dollars and given jewels and foreign trips."
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/world/jonathan-pollard-released.html?_r=0
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