Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) Training Film - The Johnathan Pollard Case from Paul Coker on Vimeo.
Pollard is the direct forerunner of the 5 Dancing Israelis.
He's the only Israeli spy ever to be caught and convicted and is currently serving a life sentence.
In Israel, they have town squares named after him.
The US Ambassador to Israel was recently asked (there is a non-stop lobbying campaign) if the US had any intention of pardoning him or extending executive clemency to allow him to "return" (he's Jewish, but not an Israeli) to Israel, and the Ambassador correclty stated "We extended him leniancy by not having him executed".
Pollard took money and sold US National Secruity secrets to Israel, who GAVE them to the Soviet Union in a swap for Soviet Jews.
Netanyahu apparently nearly succeeded in persuading Bill Clinton to release Pollard in the late 90s, but he vetoed the idea when George Tenet and a number of senior Generals, including several of the Joint Chiefs stated they wiould resign if Pollard was ever released on their watch.
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