"Jailed spy is kept from father’s funeral" by Associated Press / June 21, 2011
MISHAWAKA, Indiana — A former Navy intelligence analyst convicted of spying for Israel was not permitted to attend his father’s funeral in Indiana yesterday, despite requests from Israeli officials that he be allowed out of prison to pay his respects.
The White House also had spurned Israeli appeals to let Jonathan Pollard visit his father, Morris Pollard, before he died Saturday at 95....
Pollard was a civilian intelligence analyst for the Navy when he copied and gave to his Israeli handlers enough classified documents to fill a walk-in closet.
Arrested in 1985 after unsuccessfully seeking refuge at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, Pollard was convicted and sentenced two years later. He is scheduled for release in 2015, according to a Justice Department website.
About 100 people attended the service and funeral for Morris Pollard, who was a prominent researcher on viral diseases and a retired biology professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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"Before he died, Morris Pollard said he couldn't sleep at night because of his son's incarceration. He called it "an overwhelming miscarriage of justice."
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"This is extremely dishonest reporting. What Pollard passed to Israel were declassified documents regarding America's nuclear deterrent. Israel turned around and traded those documents to the USSR, the very people the nuclear deterrent was supposed to deter, in exchange for increased emigration quotas for Jews leaving Russia to move to Israel. The Americans of the 1950s were taxed for $5 trillion dollars to build and maintain America's nuclear deterrent, and Pollard/Israel undermined that with their betrayal." -- Wake the Flock Up
