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PrBacterio posted:
He was a pretty bad dude and an unrepentant, pathological liar. IIRC the FBI interviewed hundreds of people from throughout his life and not a single one could recall him mentioning Israel, Judaism, etc. Also, the SIGINT stuff he sold wasn't just a bunch of random info, it was incredibly dangerous material. From the Kaplan's article... quote:We now know (and M.E. Bowman, a senior counterintelligence officer who was working the Pollard case, has since confirmed) that the item in question was a National Security Agency manual called the RASIN, short for “Radio Signal Notations.” The RASIN was a guide to the physical parameters of every radio signal that the NSA was intercepting—a guide on how the NSA was tracking military communications, not just Israel’s but any and every country’s, including the Soviet Union’s. The RASIN was 10 volumes, and Pollard gave his Israeli handlers every single page of it.
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drat I would never have expected to find this much bloodthirst on here in a topic like this. I'll say this much, however: It would have been kind of nice if they had made it a condition that Mordechai Vanunu be allowed to leave Israel in return for Pollard's parole going through.
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Kim Jong Il posted:I think you're remembering that wrong, because the Hersh piece says he went on a trip to Israel when he was younger and then bragged to everyone about how he was a secret Mossad agent. You're absolutely correct. I couldn't find the article that I was hazily remembering so I went to the NSA damage assesment PDF and it's right at the beginning. My bad. quote:For example, although Pollard earned a 3.5 grade point average as a
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