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U.S. Believes Jonathan Pollard
Had Some Inside Assistance
WOLF BLITZER
Special to The Jewish News
W
ashington — U.S.
Justice Department
officials have con-
cluded that Israel "almost
certainly" had another
American espionage agent in
the CIA or the Defense
Department involved in the
Jonathan Jay Pollard spy
ring.
According to reports in the
Washington Post, the Justice
Department is continuing its
investigation to attempt to
establish the identity of a sec-
ond alleged Israeli spy,
dubbed "Mr. X" by govern-
ment investigators.
For more than two years,
Israeli officials have repeated-
ly denied the allegation of a
broader-than-already-acknow-
ledged Pollard spy operation.
The Israeli Embassy issued
another denial after the Post
story appeared last Friday.
In a statement from his
prison cell in Springfield, Mo.,
that same day, Pollard also
denied that any other
American was involved in the
ring. "I gave no information
suggesting the existence of a
Mr. X in the government," he
said. "This was confirmed by
nine months of polygraph-
ing."
Some U.S. and Israeli
sources charged that this
latest story was leaked in
order to try to sabotage the
intense, behind-the-scenes
U.S:Israeli negotiations in re-
cent months designed to re-
solve several aspects of the
Pollard case.
As part of an expanded
U.S.-Israeli extradition treaty
and other measures, for exam-
ple, the U.S. under such an
agreement would be prepared
to drop its efforts to lift the
immunity that had earlier
been granted to three Israeli
officials involved in the
Pollard ring.
U.S. and Israeli officials
have charged that some
American investigators and
counter-intelligence special-
ists do not want to close the
book on the Pollard case.
The Post also reported the
Justice Department's belief
that a Mr. X must exist grew
out of a massive, three-stage
debriefing and polygraphing
of Pollard over many months.
Pollard reportedly told U.S.
officials that his Israeli
handlers often specified by
date and document control
number the highly sensitive
U.S. documents they wanted
Pollard: Not alone?
him to acquire, and once
showed him a top secret U.S.
document to which, in-
vestigators have established,
he did not have access.
"It was an index or
catalogue that Pollard was
then able to use to obtain
documents from U.S. in-
telligence agencies during one
phase of his espionage," the
report continued. "U.S. in-
vestigators have concluded
that the other American —
Mr. X — had provided this in-
dex and other specific infor-
mation on U.S. secrets that
Pollard learned from his
Israeli handlers."
The newspaper report add-
ed that among the kinds of in-
formation Pollard obtained
for Israel were:
• Thchnical and other infor-
mation on special National
Security Agency projects
designed to intercept foreign
communications. "Sources
said that in the government,
NSA has claimed that it
must replace the capabilities
disclosed by Pollard, and that
this will need billions of
dollars," the report stated.
"But other officials have said
this cost estimate is much too
high."
• Code word and Sensitive
Compartmented Information,
the most important U.S. in-
telligence secrets, to which
Pollard had access as an
employee of the U.S. Navy's
top secret anti-terrorist effort.
Pollard's access was so broad
and extensive that, in the
words of one source, the es-
pionage operation "allowed
Israel to spy on every country
in the world" by using the in-
formation gathered by all U.S.
intelligence agencies.
According to the report,
U.S. intelligence agencies
have drawn up lists of
suspects, but no evidence has
been developed so far point-
ing to any individual as a
possible Mr. X.
Quoting unnamed investi-
gators, the report said the
alleged Mr. X "must have
been so highly placed or in
such a position that he could
not regularly gather docu-
ments, whereas Pollard was a
low-level analyst who had a
courier card and whose job
was to assemble information.
"Investigators concluded
that Israel may have been
more interested in protecting
Mr. X than Pollard," the
report added.
Israeli officials, in denying
the existence of a Mr. X, have
insisted that they did not
necessarily need another
agent in the U.S. intelligence
community in order to learn
of the existence of the specific
documents that Pollard was
asked to obtain.
For example, according to
officials, they could have
learned of the documents in
other ways, including from
other documents officially ex-
changed with Israel as part of
a long-standing U.S.-Israeli
intelligence sharing program.
In addition, they have noted
that the U.S. could have
shared those kinds of
documents with other NATO
countries and that Israel
might have been in a position
to gain access to them —
directly or indirectly — from
them.
Finally, Israeli officials
have noted that the U.S.
documents could have been
compromised by other friend-
ly or unfriendly espionage
operations against the U.S.
and that Israel then could
have gained access when the
documents entered an infor-
mal international espionage
market where these kinds of
documents are often ex-
changed.
The Post reported that dur-
ing the course of the two-year
Justice Department inquiry,
investigators have establish-
ed that fund-raising efforts
for Israel in the United States
were often used to identify
pro-Israelis in sensitive posi-
tions in the U.S. government.
"One source said it was
possible that Israel had
several additional sources of
U.S. intelligence information
and not just a single Mr. X,
and at least one senior
Justice Department official
has expressed skepticism
that another Israeli agent will
ever be found," the newspaper
reported.