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•This man speaking is Jonathan Pollard, talking about using Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East. •He one of the most damaging spies in US history who spent decades in jail for espionage against the U.S. •He was a U.S. Navy intelligence analyst who was arrested in 1985 and convicted...

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THE POLLARD AFFAIR 🇮🇱🇺🇸(1984-1985) The Pollard Affair was an espionage case involving Jonathan Jay Pollard, an American intelligence analyst who spied for Israel in the mid-1980s. Pollard, born in 1954 in Texas to a Jewish family, worked as a civilian analyst for the U.S. Navy. In 1984, he began passing classified information to Israel, motivated by a desire to aid the Jewish state, which he believed was not receiving sufficient intelligence from the U.S. despite their alliance. Pollard provided Israel with a vast amount of sensitive U.S. intelligence, including details on American signal intelligence gathering methods, military capabilities of Arab nations, and reportedly the identities of U.S. informants. The information he handed over was so extensive that it included the National Security Agency’s ten-volume manual on U.S. intelligence collection techniques. His actions were uncovered in 1985 when colleagues grew suspicious of his behavior, leading to an FBI investigation. On November 21, 1985, Pollard and his then-wife, Anne, attempted to seek asylum at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., but were turned away and arrested. In 1987, Pollard pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to deliver national defense information to a foreign government under a plea agreement. Pollard was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years. The severity of his sentence stemmed from the immense damage assessed by U.S. officials, who claimed the leaked information indirectly reached the Soviet Union via Israel, compromising national security during the Cold War. The affair strained U.S.-Israel relations significantly. Initially, Israel described Pollard’s actions as a rogue operation unauthorized by its government, but in 1998, it admitted to paying him and formally apologized to the U.S. Pollard spent 30 years in prison, including seven in solitary confinement, and was released on parole in November 2015. After his parole ended in 2020, he moved to Israel, where he was welcomed by then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and granted citizenship (which Israel had already conferred in 1995 while he was imprisoned).

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