From what I have heard, the information that Pollard passed on to Israel was information that Israel was supposed to get anyhow as a matter of course, due to an arrangement that they had with the USA. It specificaly dealt with the nuclear reactor that Sadaam had built at Osiris,which constituted a direct threat to Israel. For some reason or other, Pollard saw that this information was deliberately being witheld and not being transmitted to Israel in a timely manner as it was supposed to have been. He took it upon himself to transmit this material on his own, knowing that he broke the law and ready to accept the consequences of his actions when he was caught. He felt that Israel was in imminent danger of a nuclear holocaust, knowing the type of a person Sadaam was. Apparently he was right, because the Israeli Air Force acted immediately and took out the reactor in a heroic surprise attack. Not only did this save Jewish lives in Israel, but it also saved American lives as well. Imagine what would have happened had Iraq been allowed to develop these atomic weapons. They definitely would have used them in the first Gulf War when they launched scud missles against Israel as well as against American troops stationed in Saudi Arabia. Pollard did not do it for money. He felt that he was saving lives, and was ready to go to prison if necessary. However, he never imagined a life sentence, especially after agreeing to a plea arrangement with the prosecution. When Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King broke laws that they felt were unjust, they later became heros. They were never branded a traitors except by those bigoted KKK sympathizers and white supremecists. The question of why Pollard's superiors did not want him to transmit the information can be answered in one word: OIL. Casper Weinberger and his cohorts were so scared of the Arabs shutting off the petroleum spigot, that they witheld this information, knowing full well what Israel would do once they obtained it. When the Arab & Communist dominated UN condemmed Israel for this heroic attack on the reactor, Weinberger (Becthtel Corp.), promised the Saudis and the rest of the Arab world that "Pollard The Jew", would be punished as harshly as was within his power to do so. That is why I am saying that Pollard was tried as an American but punished as a Jew. If Pollard were released, there is no way that he could further damage the security or reputation of the United States. I doubt very much that the CIA would re-hire him and give him the same access to sensitive and classified information that he once had. He would probably go to Israel and live out the remainder of his life in peace and quiet. If you ask where I got this information from ? I personally know Rabbis and other officials of Jewish organizations who visit Pollard in prison on a regular basis. This is the story as he tells it to them.
SOL ZELLER