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Pollard had Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger, whose paternal grandparents were Jews and whose father was a Jewish lawyer. Weinberger submitted a 40-page affidavit in which he insisted...
Mar 31, 2006 · Weinberger was best known for his entanglement in the Iran-Contra scandal, but he made headlines in the Jewish community when he pushed for a life sentence for Jonathan Pollard, a U.S. Navy intelligence analyst who pled guilty in 1987 to spying for Israel. Weinberger authored a 40-page, classified assessment of the damage Pollard’s actions ...
Dec 24, 2018 · Caspar Weinberger, seen here in 1985, was indicted on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in 1992. | AP Photo. By Andrew Glass. 12/24/2018 07:21 AM EST. With his term soon to expire,...
- A Commitment to Israel’s Security
- Reams of Secret Material
- The Arrest
- Paroled
Pollard, known to his friends and colleagues as Jay, was raised in South Bend, Indiana, where, according to de-classified CIA documents, he lived a childhood “marked by material sufficiency, strong intellectual stimulation within a closely knit family and some bruising experiences as a member of the Jewish-American minority growing up in middle-Ame...
Col. (ret) Aviem Sella, a brilliant aviator and war hero, a fighter pilot who downed a Soviet-flown MiG-21 in 1970 and participated in the attack against Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor 11 years later (as an F-15 pilot covering the eight F-16 strikers), knew nothing about espionage. He was in the US to complete a doctorate at NYU. Occasionally he ...
Pollard was first detained for questioning on Monday, November 18, 1985. Immediately, he called his wife and used the code word “cactus.” That meant get rid of all incriminating evidence. She did not succeed in that mission, but she did manage to shake FBI surveillance and meet with Sella, later that night, at a fish restaurant called O’Donnell’s. ...
Pollard served out his time in a series of maximum and medium-security prisons. At first, post-sentencing, he was sent to a federal prison hospital in Springfield, Missouri, where “he was routinely deprived of his clothing and his eyeglasses in attempts to humiliate and ‘break’ him,” according to the Pollard family’s authorized website. In June 198...
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Aug 2, 2015 · He extensively interviewed Pollard’s attorneys and reviewed their evidence, and also interviewed then ex-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former US secretary of defense Casper Weinberger, and...
Handwritten notes taken by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger on 7 December 1985 indicate that Reagan was aware of potential hostage transfers with Iran, by Israel, as well as the sale of Hawk and TOW missiles to "moderate elements" within that country. [8] [original research?]
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger (left) with Israeli Minister of Defense Ariel Sharon, 1982. Weinberger was vying for Reagan to appoint him as Secretary of State but was given the position of Secretary of Defense instead. [12] Weinberger took the lead in implementing a rollback strategy against Soviet communism.
