Spy Jonathan Pollard remains in prison, despite agreement
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The American Jewish spy Jonathan Pollard is kept in prison for 25 years in the United States despite a verbal agreement with the Americans that he would serve only ten years of holding up, said Thursday a former Israeli minister.
- "There was a verbal agreement between Israel and the Americans, that American courts would not inflict more than 10 years in prison for Jonathan Pollard, and this agreement has been breached," said on public radio Rafy Eytan, former Minister of Pensioners.
- Pollard, a U.S. Navy analyst, was sentenced by U.S. court to life imprisonment in 1987 for having provided Israel, from May 1984 until his arrest in November 1985, thousands of secret documents on defense activities espionage in the United States, mostly in Arab countries.
- Mr. Eytan, former head of Mossad, the Israeli Foreign Service security, was officer dealing with him when Pollard was arrested.
- According to Mr. Eytan, U.S. Secretary of Defense at the time, Caspar Weinberger, insisted on the seriousness of the charges against Pollard because he also believed responsible for having led to the arrest of 11 FBI agents in USSR.
- "Even when they knew it was wrong then, Americans have maintained Pollard in prison for reasons that are theirs," said Eytan on the radio.
- He also called the U.S. President Barack Obama to intervene for the release of Pollard, "and win the hearts of Israelis."
- Ennaharonline/ M. O.
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