Video: Pollard steals secret documents

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(VIDEO) Footage taken from surveillance camera shows convicted spy ‘stealing 1,500 top secret documents in a matter of seconds’

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3327350,00.html

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"Ron Olive, the FBI agent who apprehended Jonathan Pollard has released footage taken from a surveillance camera showing the convicted spy taking suitcases full of top secret documents to his Israeli operatives.

"This is Pollard actually in the act of stealing highly classified information," says Olive during the presentation, "1500 top secret documents in a matter of seconds."

Olive added that Pollard transferred material to the Israeli embassy at least twice a day, three to four times a week.

In 1985, Pollard raised the suspicions of his superiors at the Navy Field Operational Intelligence Office (NFOIO) in Washington, D.C., as stacks of classified documents unrelated to his work were repeatedly found in his office.

The FBI arrested Pollard in November 1985, but he attempted to evade arrest by requesting asylum at the Israeli embassy. The embassy refused to grant Pollard and his wife asylum, and Pollard was subsequently apprehended by the FBI."

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Esther Pollard slams Olmert for 'ignoring Jonathan'

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3327370,00.html

Several hours before Olmert meets with Bush in Washington convicted spy's wife says: 'We know that Bush is willing to pardon Pollard', slams Olmert for 'ignoring' his plight

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"With the meeting between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and US President George Bush just hours away, convicted spy Jonathan Pollard's wife Esther pleads with Bush to pardon her husband. Speaking with Ynet on Sunday evening she slams Olmert for ignoring her husband's case.

"Not only does he do nothing about it, he purposely ignores that issue called Pollard, and every time (I) try to schedule a meeting with him he refuses to take it," says Mrs. Pollard. "We know that President Bush is willing to pardon Pollard and I want to support him in doing the right thing."

Esther Pollard, who has repeatedly voiced her disappointment in the handling of her husband's case by the state, asks to communicate her message to the PM: "It's a shame that Israel abandons her sons. I say to Olmert – before you think about pardoning Barghouti, take care of your own citizens first and bring up Jonathan Pollard's pardon. Bush is genuinely willing (to pardon him), he's just waiting for your request."

Responding to the recent publication of video footage showing her husband putting classified material into suitcases, broadcast in Israel by channel 10, she says: "Obviously it was shown at a time when Olmert is in the US, playing into his (Olmert's) interests, absolving him of responsibility. It presents the situation as though it isn't that Israel doesn't want to release him, it's just that he can't be released because of the Americans' evidence."

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1. Let the spy rot in prison. n.t.

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3. High Court rejects Pollards' petition against Eitan appointment

The High Court of Justice on Monday rejected a petition filed by Esther and Jonathan Pollard, which asked the court to force Minister of Pensioner Affairs Rafi Eitan to resign.

The Pollards' argued that the appointment of Eitan, who served as Pollard's handler in the 1980s, eliminates any chance that Pollard will be released from a United States prison.

Pollard was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty in 1986 to spying for Israel.

Justices Dorit Beinish, Ayala Procaccia and David Cheshin expressed sympathy for Esther Pollard, who "wanted to express her outcry in our ears," but nonetheless called the Pollards' argument baseless.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/787376.html

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4. Missed red flags on Israeli spy

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"The Navy counter-intelligence officer who garnered a confession from Israeli spy Jonathon Pollard says that U.S. agencies missed a forest of red flags about him and risk repeating the same mistakes today they made more than 20 years ago.

Ron Olive, the investigator who debriefed Pollard in 1985, says in a new book that 'The warning indicators and the problems were clear from the beginning of (Pollard`s) career' and even before, and that his bizarre behavior should have prevented him from ever working for the U.S. government.

'It`s a wake-up call to U.S. intelligence today,' he told United Press International, about his account: 'Capturing Jonathon Pollard,' published by the Naval Institute Press.

The book discloses what Olive says are fresh details about the sensational spy case -- a whirlwind 11-day-long investigation which eventually revealed that Pollard passed 36,000 cubic feet of 'the most classified intelligence material the United States possesses' to his Israeli handlers."

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