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Throughout the tense period last year when two Americans were on trial for selling U.S. secrets to Israel, officials in Jerusalem never wavered from what the U.S. considered an incredible story. The spy ring that included Jonathan and Anne Pollard had been a "rogue operation," the Israelis insisted, run without the knowledge of top government officials. The ring's mastermind, Rafi Eitan, who later became head of Israel's largest state-owned company, had never publicly contradicted the official line...
Last week he did. In statements that echoed the recent pronouncements of a certain Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, Eitan maintained that he had done nothing in the Pollard operation without the direction of his superiors. "In all my activities, I did not act without approval," he said on a radio show. In a separate newspaper interview, Eitan asked, "Do the people responsible appreciate the fact that I agreed to assume the responsibility?" If so, they are not saying so. Israeli officials had no comment...
...March for telling a Jewish group in Miami that the CIA had recruited an Israeli army officer to provide classified information on Israeli forces during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. He made this slip during the uproar over the life-imprisonment sentence imposed on an American, Jonathan Jay Pollard, who was caught spying for Israel. In a 1983 incident, members of the Intelligence Committees commented publicly on U.S. and CIA support for the Nicaraguan contras. Administration officials had talked about the subject so often that the Intelligence Committees decided that it was no longer a secret matter...
Surrounded by enemies, Israel takes its security seriously. Sometimes too seriously, as three official rebukes last week indicated. A two-member panel appointed by the Cabinet found the entire government responsible for the activities of Jonathan Jay Pollard, the American intelligence analyst sentenced this year by a U.S. court to life imprisonment as an Israeli spy. But the panel declined to single out any individual for culpability. A second investigation, conducted by a parliamentary intelligence subcommittee headed by former Foreign Minister Abba Eban, then pinned blame squarely on Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Yitzhak...
...life is his willingness to talk about it. The senator's separation from his wife was a lot less surprising in 1985 than his openness in discussing the matter. It of course should--but doesn't--go without saying that Durenburger's personal life is not relevant to the Pollard spy case...