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and the loss of technological
and strategic information to
the Soviets. Walker is serving
a regular sentence, a straight
minimal term; unlike Pollard,
he has not been confined to
psychiatric wards or isolation.
Pollard is not eligible for
parole; when one considers
the excessively harsh life
sentence with no parole, corn-
bined with almost three years
of virtual solitary confine-
ment, one is forced to con-
clude that some other stan-
dard of justice has been ap-
plied in the case.
Last March Iraq effectively
used poison and nerve gas
against thousands of Kurds
living on the border with
Iran. Television and news
journals around the world
detailed the elimination of
whole villages, showing Kur-
dish inhabitants, their skins
mottled from the effects of
mustard gas, piled in the
streets. Elsewhere, entire
families lay in peaceful death
poses — the nerve gas had
killed them instantly.
We must recall that the im-
petus for Pollard to break the
laws of his country in the sen-
sitive area of intelligence and
security came because he saw
that U.S. intelligence ac-
cumulated and withheld from
Israel knowledge of Syrian
and Iraqi capability to pro-
duce and deliver poison gas.
Pollard felt this intelligence
was crucial for Israel, lest it
be left vulnerable to similar
gas attacks on its population
centers. Apparently, in-
dividuals within the U.S.
Defense Department believed
otherwise. When Pollard ask-
ed his superiors why this in-
formation was not being
relayed to Israel, he was told,
"Jews are too sensitive about
gas."
This information should
have been available to Israel
based upon the U.S.-Israel Ex-
change of Intelligence Agree-
ment in 1983, approved by
President Reagan and Con-
gress. The lingering suspicion
is that as yet unidentified
persons had bottlenecked this
two-way exchange. Thus, for
transmitting vital informa-
tion to an ally, Pollard is now
serving a life sentence.
U.S. Attorney Joseph
diGenova, who recently
resigned, was requested by
Weinberger, then Secretary of
Defense, to handle the pro-
secution of the Pollards.
Pollard said diGenova showed
him a thick computer prin-
tout of an alphabetical list of
American Jewish leaders
from which he was to choose
an alleged "Mr. X" as a co-
conspirator. Such a list, on
typical computer paper, could
number as many as 10,000 or
more names. If true, the civil
rights of thousands were infr-
inged upon, since the use of
such lists for possible
surveillance violates constitu-
tional law.
Pollard writes: "the veil of
distortions and misrepresen-
tations [in the press about my
case] were intended both to
poison Americans' percep-
tions of Israel as a valuable
strategic partner and to
frighten the Jewish com-
munity into accepting the ad-
ministration's insistence that
Israel comply with the
demands of Arab nations."
Was Pollard set up to be the
straw that would break the
back of the U.S.-Israel rela-
tionship? Would a furious
Congress insist on ter- K
minating military aid and, in
addition, allow unrestricted
shipments of arms to Arab
nations? Would a subsequent
confession by Pollard to the ef-
fect that innocent American
civilian Jewish leaders were
involved in his act of es-
pionage cause the Jewish
community en masse to
retreat from any support of
Israel — political or financial?
Would the damage of blaring
headlines be irreversible,
even if it was later determin-
ed that the confession was
false and extracted under
unusual pressure?
The condition of Anne
Pollard is appalling. Anne, 27,
suffers from biliary
dyskinesia, a rare
gastrointestinal disorder. In
the first 95 days of her
isolated detention she lost 60
pounds; her hair turned gray.
She lives in constant and un-
treted pain, cannot eat solid
food, suffers from frequent
hemorrhaging, is continually
bent over with her arms on
her stomach and has difficul-
ty walking. Photographing of
Anne is not permitted. Nor
are interviews. Authorities
maintain that she refuses to
be interviewed and considers
it an invasion of her privacy.
Her father says this is untrue:
Anne has signed several re-
CI
quests for release of informa-
tion and is pleading for
contact.
Her husband said: "In spite
of her precarious situation,
Anne made me swear never to
accommodate diGenova just
so she could receive her
medications." "[A] specially
prepared report was delivered
daily to my cell . . . with all
too graphic physical descrip-
tions
of my
wife's
deteriorating physical condi-
tion; diGenova always includ-
ed
a copy
of his
Mephistophelean offer:
medical care would only be
made available to Anne when
and if I agreed to drag half
the American Zionist
establishment into the affair."
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