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United States, "this would in
no sense be regarded as con-
doning, after all the state-
ments of regret, what the
Pollards did.
"Quite the contrary, it
would be a tangible expres-
sion of Israel's recognition of
its own culpability and readi-
ness to make amends to those
directly and intimately in-
jured, -the Pollards them-
selves."
Along with the expressions
of righteous indignation be-
ing uttered by those who
would seek to justify the
operation, there is a sense of
profound anger about a deci-
sion that could place a critical
relationship in jeopardy.
But for many Israeli ana-
lysts, the verdict is already in:
The Pollard affair, coming in
the wake of the Shin Bet
scandal and the Iran-Contra
deal, are all creatures of the
unnatural national unity
coalition between the Labor
and Likud parties — "the per-
nicious effects," as one com-
mentator put it, "of govern-
ment-without-opposition."
Most worrying of all is the
apparent lack of political con-
trol over the security services
and the manifest absence of
accountability.
Allegations that the United
States was itself guilty of
having spied on "friendly na-
tions" might serve to soften
the strident tone of moral
outrage that is being so
volubly expressed in Wash-
ington. But they are unlikely
to quickly restore the abun-
dant trust and confidence
that Washington had reposed
in Israel, particularly since
the birth of the Reagan
administration.
Nor will it diminish the
widely felt need in Israel to
impose a decent measure of
accountability, control over
the security services and a
revamping of the decision-
making process that has
shown itself to be so danger-
ously vulnerable to error.
U.S. Move In Pollard
Case Surprises Israel
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Friday, April 10, 1987
357-5578
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Aviv (JTA) — Israeli
circles expressed surprise last
weekend that the U.S. sud-
denly has made an issue of
questioning Harold Katz, a
65-year-old American-born
lawyer who immigrated to
Israel in 1972, on alleged con-
nections with convicted spy
Jonathan Pollard.
Katz, who holds dual U.S:
Israeli citizenship, denied
that he ever knew Pollard or
the Israeli offficials most
closely linked to his spying
activities. Israeli officials said
Katz was questioned by U.S.
officials over six months ago.
The media quoted Israel Em-
bassy sources in Washington
as saying "They've sat on the
Katz business for six months,
Why now all of a sudden?"
The answer, according to
those sources, is "yet more
coordinated pressure on
Israel." The Israel govern-
ment has refused to allow
Katz to go to Washington for
questioning by a federal
grand jury about the alleged
use of an apartment he keeps
there for pay-offs to Pollard
and to receive intelligence
data from him.
But the government, and
Katz, say he is prepared to
answer questions by an
American investigator, pos-
sibly at the U.S. Embassy in
Tel Aviv. Katz, who worked in
the Defense Ministry's legal
department here from 1972-
82, admitted that he gave a
key to his Washington apart-
ment to Irit Erb, at the time
a secretary at the office of the
scientific attache at the Israel
Embassy in Washington, who
has been implicated in the
Pollard case.
Erb was one of three
employes at the Embassy and
the Israel Consulate General
in New York who left the U.S.
when Pollard was arrested in
1985 for spying for Israel.
Katz said he knew Erb as a
friend who offered to help fur-
nish the apartment so that he
could sublease it to Israelis
looking for living quarters in
Washington.
Katz said that he had told
the U.S. prosecutor who ques-
tioned him here a year ago,
"under the pains and penal-
ties of perjury," that the first
time he heard of Erb's alleged
use of his apartment for con-
tacts with Pollard was when
the prosecutor questioned
him about it.
He insisted he never knew
Pollard or Israel Air Force
Col. Aviem Sella, Pollard's
alleged "handler," nor had he
ever passed any money or
documents in the case.
Israeli and American of-
ficials reportedly have been
discussing ground rules for
questioning Katz for the past
six months. The Israelis say
they can think of no reason
why publicity about Katz
should have emerged now
unless it was part of an at-
tempt by some American
circles to implicate Israel yet
further in the Pollard afffair.
EN