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Jonathan Pollard Is Free after Completing Parole


(New York Post-New York Times) Jorge Fitz-Gibbon - Jonathan Pollard, 66, a former U.S. Navy analyst who was jailed for 30 years for passing thousands of confidential documents to an Israeli official until his arrest in 1985, has completed an additional 5-year restrictive parole period and is now free. According to CIA documents released in 2012, intelligence provided by Pollard was used to plan an October 1985 Israeli raid on the Tunis headquarters of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. After his arrest, Pollard pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors who agreed to seek a years-long sentence. But the judge sentenced him to life in prison. Pollard ultimately served the longest stretch in prison for an American who illegally gave material to an allied government.
2020-11-23 00:00:00
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