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Jonathan Pollard
most exclusive hotels in the
city and dined at the most
expensive restaurants. While
the men talked "business,"
the women went shopping
and sightseeing.
Sella was also instructed
by Eitan" to purchase an ex-
pensive diamond and sap-
phire ring for Pollard to give
to his wife — an indication of
Israel's deep gratitude to
him.
During the summer of
1985, Pollard and his wife
traveled throughout Europe
and then to Israel for meet-
ings with Eitan. Pollard was
reimbursed another $10,000
in cash.
Later that year, Pollard
was given the number of a
foreign bank account. He was
told by Yagur that $30,000
had already been deposited in
that account and that an
additional $30,000 would be
deposited each year for the
next 10 years. This money
was to be in addition to the
direct cash payments which
Pollard received from Israel.
Before his arrest, that sum
came to $45,000.
Playing on Pollard's long-
standing ideological attach-
ment to Israel, Eitan in the
fall of 1985 also had Yagur
show Pollard an Israeli
passport, bearing Pollard's
photograph, in the name of
"Danny Cohen." This was de-
signed to reinforce the notion
of Pollard's ideological com-
mitment to Israel and to
make Pollard feel ,better
about himself and the opera-
tion.
It
would
supposedly
encourage Pollard to believe
that his services would in-
deed eventually result in his
moving to Israel. Eitan, the
sources said, did not want
Pollard to think he was pro-
viding the information
strictly for money.
"It's an old espionage ploy,"
an Israeli source said. "You
constantly have to reassure
your spies. Their emotional
state can become unstable.
They can get very nervous.
Eitan thought that the
passport would help to ease
Pollard's concerns. Occasion-
ally, he was showing signs of
becoming very edgy about the
whole thing."
Israeli sources confirmed
that similar "passports" have
been shown to other Israeli
spies around the world. "They
have to know that they will
be welcomed in Israel if
something should go wrong,"
one source said.
Court documents described
the passport as "a demonstra-
tion of gratitude for services
rendered in that it identified
Mr. Pollard as a citizen of Is-
rael." But other sources in-
sisted that Eitan's passport
decision was largely designed
to psychologically reassure
Pollard into continuing the
operation.
According to the sources,
there had developed some
friction between Pollard and
his Israeli handlers, espe-
cially Eitan, who kept put-
ting increasing demands on
Pollard for more and more
U.S. documents. Even some
of Eitan's closest associates in
the espionage ring were re-
portedly upset by what they
regarded as his "heavy-
handed" behavior toward Pol-
lard. "Eitan really took ad-
vantage of him," a source
said.
The civilian employee of
the U.S. Navy was seen by
other Israeli operatives as
very intelligent and deeply
committed to Israel, but ex-
tremely naive about the
darker side of espionage. "He
was really pretty innocent
and foolish about the whole
thing," one Israeli source
conceded. "He originally had
no idea what he was getting
himself involved in. His
biggest mistake was trusting
Eitan."
According to informed
sources, even Sella was said
to have been personally upset
by Eitan's attitude toward
Pollard and Israel's sub-
sequent decision to abandon
him.
Sella, who is today the
highly-regarded commander
of the U.S. built Ramon Air
Base in the Negev, is de-
scribed by these sources as
feeling very guilty about his
own role in introducing Pol-
lard to Eitan.
James Hibey, the lawyer
representing Pollard's wife,
Anne Henderson-Pollard, has
insisted that Pollard never
actually intended to harm
U.S. national security inter-
ests. His sole motivation was
his personal love of Israel.
Other sources close to Pol-
lard said that he had even re-
fused to provide Israel with
some information which he
felt could hurt the U.S. This
is said to have deeply
angered Eitan.
Pollard was originally
motivated to help Israel after
seeing some very sensitive in-
formation come across his
desk involving potentially
alarming security threats fac-
ing Israel. In the spring of
1984, Pollard served as a
watch officer for the Anti-
Terrorist Alert Center in the
Threat Analysis Division of
the Naval Investigative Serv-
ice.