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and lengths of cloth, which
his personal tailor would
later make into suits.
But in mid-1987, the Fren-
ch newsweekly L'Express
published a leaked State
Department report which
identified Mr. Fahran and
Mr. Najmeddin as the
leaders of the Abu Nidal
group and reported they
were using an international
bank based in London.
Within days, Mr. Kassem
was summoned to "an im-
portant meeting" at a Lon-
don hotel where he was in-
troduced to a British intel-
ligence officer and told he
had unwittingly handled
Abu Nidal's London bank
account.
Within a few days, Mr.
Kassem had handed MI5 all
the bank files relating to the
Abu Nidal group but, ap-
parently coincidentally, Abu
Nidal began withdrawing
his funds from BCCI in Lon-
don "very soon after I
started working for MI5."
For the next two-and-a-
half-years, Mr. Kassem con-
tinued to pass information
from inside the bank to the
intelligence services, which
were also interested in the
account held by the
Lebanese Hizbollah funda-
mentalist movement at
BCCI's Kensington branch.
Mr. Kassem's tale raises
more questions than it an-
swers. Most intriguing,
perhaps, are how much and
for how long Britain's intel-
ligence services really knew
about Abu Nidal's opera-
tions in London and his
mutually profitable partner-
ship with the bank.
Pessimists believe that
MI5 agents, with their rich
history of bumbling,
discovered the ar-
rangements along with the
rest of the world when the
judiciously placed State
Department leak was
published in the French
newsweekly.
The optimists, however,
prefer to believe that they
knew about it all along,
permitting the activities of
BCCI and Abu Nidal to con-
tinue in order to keep open a
window on the shadowy
world of terrorism, drugs
and arms-dealing.
It is unlikely that
definitive answers will ever
emerge from the shadows of
this bizarre episode. ❑
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Anne Pollard
Hospitalized In Israel
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Anne
Henderson Pollard, ex-wife
of imprisoned American spy
Jonathan Pollard, has been
admitted to the Abarbanel
psychiatric hospital in Bat
Yam, amid contradictory
reports about the reason for
her hospitalization and her
physical and mental state.
According to the deputy
director of the institution,
Dr. Moshe Zohar, she ap-
plied voluntarily for
physical and mental treat-
ment on Aug. 8, on the ad-
vice of friends. He denied
reports that she is being for-
cibly held in the hospital, in
an isolated ward.
Dr. Zohar declined to
comment on reports that she
would be treated for drug
addiction; saying that obser-
vations of only a day or two
are insufficient to draw any
conclusions about a patient's
physical or mental condi-
tion.
Ms. Pollard, who was
divorced from her husband
this spring, was paroled in
April 1990 after serving 40
months of a five-year jail
term in the United States in
connection with Jonathan's
espionage activities for
Israel.
U.S. authorities permitted
her to come to Israel to
receive medical treatment
for a painful digestive dis-
order.
Press reports here last
week said Ms. Pollard was a
drug user even before being
arrested in 1985 with her
then-husband. Other reports
said she became addicted to
drugs while in prison, where
she underwent massive
sedation.
Hospital officials said that
it would not be surprising of
she suffers from emotional
disorders, in light of the ex-
periences she has gone
through in recent years. But
they agreed with Dr. Zohar
that further observations
are needed.
Spokespersons for the
Public Committee for
Jonathan Pollard rejected
accusations by Anne's
father, Bernard Henderson,
that his daughter is not be-
ing properly looked after in
Israel and is now being forc-
ibly held in a closed mental
ward. Mr. Henderson made
similar charges about her
treatment in U.S. prison
hospitals.