U.S. spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard, convicted of espionage in 1987 and due for parole on November 20, 2015, was reported at the time of his arrest to have been spying not for Israel but for South Africa, Pakistan, East Germany, the Soviet Union, and even Iran. However, according to documents held by the Central Intelligence Agency and declassified in 2013, this “false flag” defense—false flag was the term used at the time—was designed to deflect Pollard’s espionage activities away from Israel.
In fact, the FBI determined that the “false flag” defense of Pollard was an attempt by Mossad to wash its hands of involvement in the case. Moreover, the false flag defense was advanced by pro-Israeli journalists in Washington, including Wolf Blitzer, then a correspondent for the Jerusalem Post and public relations flack for the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and the late Ralph DeToledano, an op-ed writer for The Washington Times.
Israel eventually exchanged highly classified U.S. documents provided by Pollard with the Soviets in return for an increase in the quota of Soviet Jews permitted to emigrate to Israel to illegally occupy the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
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Playing the devil’s advocate, I would like to mention that the twenty-eight years the traitor Pollard has served in prison is pretty close to the thirty year sentence that many nations that do not have a death penalty consider to be a maximum penalty for any crime.