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[Spy helped USSR]

 

 

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SPY HELPED USSR

Jonathan Pollard was acting as much more than a faithful Israeli when he
wrecked U.S. intelligence.

EXCLUSIVE TO THE SPOTLIGHT

By Warren Hough

The Zionist establishment's campaign to free Jonathan Jay Pollard backfired
this month with the discovery that the Soviet Union was deeply involved in
"this national-security disaster of ours," as former Defense Secretary
Caspar Weinberger put it.

The drive to pardon Pollard, led by the Israeli government and by such
organizations as the B'nai B'rith, the Anti-Defamation League and the
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish organizations, has
intensified in recent weeks.

Pollard is a former U.S. Naval Intelligence analyst, who turned Israeli spy
in the 1980s and is now serving a life sentence for it.

The pro-Pollard campaign made headway by claiming that the convicted spy
merely sold sensitive national-defense secrets to a "friendly nation", that
is, Israel, rather than to an "enemy state."

But now, fear that an embattled President Bill Clinton would free Pollard
has prompted a number of Washington national-security officials to begin
leaking the long-hidden truth about the case to trusted newsmen,
intelligence sources say.
According to these officials, Pollard was never just another Israeli agent
spying for an "allied nation." In reality, he stole and sold a number of the
U.S. government's most closely held secrets that were of interest only to
the Soviets.

COMRADE POLLARD

In recent days, a select handful of mainstream journalists were shown
classified evidence proving that many of the crucial classified documents
Pollard sold to the Israelis wound up in the Soviet Union.

As an example of the invaluable secrets with which Pollard betrayed the
United States, intelligence officials cited his theft of the 10-volume RASIN
manual (Radio Signals Intelligence Notations) from the U.S. Navy's innermost
vaults.
RASIN, classified "Top Secret UMBRA" is the "bible of the American
government's multibillion dollar electronic intelligence operations,"
reported the usually pro-Israeli New Yorker Magazine in its Jan. 18 issue.

"It is a complete catalogue of what the United States was listening to, or
could listen to around the world . . . including the Soviet Union's
top-secret message traffic and its thousands of high-frequency military
communications systems," explained the New Yorker.

Pollard's betrayal of RASIN put the giant National Security Agency in the
position of having "to question, re-evaluate and change all of its
intelligence collecting," senior Navy officials have confirmed.

The reason: It is now known that the Mossad, Israel's secret service,
"repackaged much of Pollard's material and sold it to the Soviet Union,
partly in exchange for continued Soviet permission to allow Jews, including
some in sensitive positions, to emigrate to Israel," reported the New Yorker.

The RASIN manual was, however, by no means the only key document sold by
Pollard and eventually provided to the Soviets by the Mossad, well-placed
Washington intelligence sources have asserted.

Now that the "monstrous betrayal" of vital American national-security
concerns and intelligence methods by Pollard and his Zionist spy masters is
coming to light, "the question whether to keep on pressing for this infamous
traitor's release will inflame another angry controversy within the Jewish
Establishment," said Dr. David Dorfman, a New York sociologist who
specializes in Hebraic studies.


Clinton's Hand Forced On POW/MIA Question


He wouldn't fight, and he's not very interested in those who did but haven't
been accounted for.

EXCLUSIVE TO THE SPOTLIGHT

By James P. Tucker Jr.

Populists have forced President Clinton to take up the prisoners-of-war
issue with Russia, according to a State Department official and a White
House insider.
"I'm not really hopeful because the president doesn't care about the POWs
and he wishes all Americans would forget about them," said the State
Department official. "It's a half-hearted gesture."

Clinton "blames the fact that some Americans still carry on 'agitating by
right-wing extremists,' and only acted from fear of public outrage," said
the White House staffer.

Their views were subsequently echoed by Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) in an
interview with The Washington Times. Weldon said a senior member of the
Russian Duma had told him the State Department had discouraged Moscow from
pursuing the fate of missing Americans reportedly taken there as prisoners
of war in Vietnam.

"During a conversation, the official told me, 'I can tell you, we were told
by your government, your State Department, not to pursue these issues,'"
Weldon said. The conversation took place when Weldon was visiting Moscow
last December.
Weldon declined to identify the Russian official by name, but said he had
worked on the U.S.-Russian Joint Commission on POWs.  The congressman said
he has written to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright asking for an
explanation.

In November, White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart, responding to a
question, said the president is "not expected" to discuss the POWs with Russia.
Clinton's new tactical position was disclosed in a letter Dec. 18 to Delores
Apodaca, chairman of the National Alliance of Families, which has pressed
for a full accounting of POWs. The letter was first reported in The
Washington Times Jan. 2.

"I have been very concerned about a possible KGB plan 'to transport
knowledgeable Americans' to the USSR in the 1960s for intelligence
purposes," Clinton wrote in words that his actions have long denied.

ÒI agree we must do everything possible to get to the bottom of these
reports, given that American personnel were held as POWs in Southeast Asia
during this same period," he said.

Clinton said in his letter that Vice President Al Gore had asked Russian
Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, during a Nov. 17 meeting in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, "for help to determine whether this plan existed or was acted upon."

"The White House had first said Gore was 'too busy' to take up the issue,
and now they say he did," the administration staffer said. "I don't believe
Gore did so sincerely, he may have said something for the record. But
Primakov knows he won't lose a nickel of American money if he says it ain't so."

"Primakov offered to look into these reports," Clinton's letter said.
Mrs. Albright was a willing participant in Clinton's effort to duck the POW
issue, said the official. Clinton is embarrassed to act on behalf of POWs in
a war he avoided by dodging the draft, he added.

The KGB plan was discovered in January 1998 among papers donated to the
Library of Congress. Mrs. Albright waited until Oct. 29, after pressure
began building from the grass roots, to inquire of Russia's foreign
minister, Igor Ivanov, by letter.

State Department official Lonnie Speigal told Pentagon officials the
secretary of state had more urgent matters to discuss with Moscow than POWs.



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