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...strange case of Jonathan Pollard, the U.S. Navy counterintelligence analyst accused of spying for Israel, continued to unfold last week, as an eight-member U.S. Government team arrived in Tel Aviv to question Israeli officials suspected of involvement in the affair. At the same time, the government of Prime Minister Shimon Peres wrestled with another problem: a rise in tension between Israel and Syria over the Israeli downing of two Syrian MiG fighter planes a month ago. Though some Israeli officials described the matter as a "crisis," to the U.S. Government the danger appeared to have subsided by the time...
...controversy swirling around Pollard began last month when co-workers at the Naval Investigative Service in Suitland, Md., reported that the 31-year- old analyst had been taking home highly classified material. When confronted by the FBI, he readily admitted to receiving nearly $50,000 since early 1984 for peddling secrets to Israel. A few days later, Pollard and his wife, Anne Henderson-Pollard, drove to the Israeli embassy in Washington, seeking political asylum. The embassy turned them away, and Pollard was promptly arrested by FBI agents. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison on charges...
Israeli sources said last week that Eitan's secret spying unit had been disbanded on Peres' orders. But there may still be some reluctance in the Peres Cabinet to turn documents stolen by Pollard over to the U.S. Among them: information on Arab military operations, Soviet technology and weapons systems and, most troubling to Jerusalem, U.S. analyses of Israel's intelligence- gathering capabilities. Some Israeli officials do not want to see Pollard convicted and worry that information about covert activities, once returned, might be leaked...
Meanwhile, the case against Henderson-Pollard, 25, who was originally charged only with unauthorized possession of classified documents, grew more complicated. Government lawyers argued last week that she may have been more deeply involved in her husband's activities. According to a 24-page memorandum filed in federal court, shortly after her husband had been questioned by the FBI she asked a neighbor to retrieve a suitcase from the basement of her apartment building. Henderson-Pollard, a free-lance public relations consultant, claimed that the suitcase contained documents she had wanted to use in "a presentation" at the Chinese embassy...
...friend called the FBI, which found the suitcase crammed with top-secret papers, some on Chinese spy operations in the U.S. Prosecutors concluded that Henderson-Pollard had planned to offer the goods to the Chinese. Her attorneys said that she had intended only to meet with the Chinese in an effort to launch her own p.r. project. Government prosecutors did not buy the explanation. "What better way to further her new career in public relations," they asked, "than to provide this type of would-be client with classified information...