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...national spirit is sagging under the weight of a succession of embarrassing scandals. These include the Shin Bet affair, in which two Arab terrorists were killed while in the custody of Israeli security officials in 1984, and Jerusalem's role in the Iranscam arms deals and the Jonathan Jay Pollard spy case, which involved an American Jew spying on the U.S. for Israel...
Considerable criticism dogged Sofaer's performance as head of the U.S. delegation that traveled to Jerusalem in December 1985, after Jonathan Jay Pollard was charged with spying for Israel. While the State Department issued a statement lauding the Israeli government for its "full cooperation," Justice Department officials on the delegation have charged angrily that they were "misled" by the Israelis. Jerusalem had withheld the name of Pollard's handler, Aviam Sella, and had delivered only 163 documents of the thousands purloined by Pollard. Sella was subsequently indicted in the U.S. on espionage charges, and the Justice Department is now moving...
...very least, the U.S. expects the Shamir government to fire the two Israelis who are believed to have played important roles in the Pollard affair. One is Colonel Aviam Sella, 41, an air force hero who was Pollard's "handler"; last month Sella was named commander of one of Israel's most important air bases. Similarly, Rafi Eitan, who masterminded the Pollard spy operation, was named chairman of Israel Chemicals, the country's largest government-owned company. Washington also wants Israel to return the 360 cu. ft. of American intelligence documents that Pollard stole from the Naval Investigative Service...
...Israeli government has resisted U.S. pressure. Moreover, many Israelis are concerned about the fate of Pollard and his wife Anne Henderson- * Pollard, 26, who this month was given a five-year prison sentence. An Israeli organization called Citizens for Pollard managed to collect $10,000 for the couple's defense fund. In addition, there were unconfirmed reports, subsequently denied by the Pollards' lawyers, that Israel had quietly paid about $75,000 of the Pollards' legal fees of about...
...Reagan Administration allowed Army Secretary John O. Marsh to make a previously scheduled trip to Israel. The Shamir government, reacting to pressure from Congress, announced that it would not sign new military sales contracts with South Africa, although existing commitments would be unaffected. But the impasse over the Pollard affair was far from over. Declared a Western diplomat in Tel Aviv: "The Israelis have to understand that Washington wants blood...