Jonathan Pollard, who worked for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and its Anti-Terrorism Alert Centre was arrested in 1985 and later jailed for spying for Israel. Although he was allegedly paid well for his information, he said that the real reason he had become a spy was because of his Jewish ancestry and sympathy for Israel.
Secrets he revealed include details about Libya and the Palestinian Liberation Organization in Tunisia. Pollard illegally provided to Israel mostly what they had officially received from the CIA prior to the US government's anger over Israel's bombing of Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor. Another agent may have been at work within the U.S military, since Pollard indicated the Israeli's requested data of which he had no knowledge. His co-operation later provided CIA officials with valuable information about his Israeli handlers. |
