"The government perpetuates injustice done Pollard"
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Israel Radio Aaron Vizner | 15.10.10 - 01:54

Former Minister Rafi Eitan on "Meeting Point": "Even though the Americans
know that Pollard did not help exposing agents, they do not reduce the life
sentence imposed on him"

Former Minister Rafi Eitan, who had been Jonathan Pollard's handler, said
that the American legal system perpetrated an injustice to Jonathan Pollard
and broke a verbal understanding with Israel that he would serve only 10
years in prison.

Eitan said on the "Meeting Point" program on Reshet Bet that in his view,
the testimony [IMRA affidavits] of former Defense Secretary Caspar
Weinberger, that the information Pollard passed to the Soviets helped expose
U.S. agents in the Soviet Union led to the harshening of his sentence.
However, even when it became clear that Pollard was not related to the
affair, the Americans decided, for their own reasons, to keep him in jail
for life.

[IMRA: Unknown to Pollard, behind the scenes, American officials were
secretly blaming Pollard for the damage caused to American intelligence by a
mole. A mole who turned out to be Aldrich Ames. Aldrich Ames was the very
same intelligence officer who participated in the preparation of the damage
assessment that was used to indict and sentence Pollard. Pollard was never
indicted, convicted or even aware that these accusations were being made
secretly to pervert the sentencing process and secure a life sentence
against him. Incredibly, the arrest of Ames in 1994 did not put an end to
these false accusations or to Pollard's grossly disproportionate sentence.
See The Ames Case and Pollard February 25, 1994 - The Jerusalem Post
http://www.jonathanpollard.org/1994/022594.htm
The Ames Disclosures
September 28, 1994 - The Jerusalem Post
http://www.jonathanpollard.org/1994/092894.htm ]