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POLLARD page 1
the event, which also fea-
tured Seymour Reich, for-
mer president of B'nai B'rith
International.
In the audience were
some Pollard supporters, in-
cluding members of the
Michigan Committee for
Freedom for Jonathan Pol-
lard, and many who de-
scribed themselves as
simply curious about the
case.
In an interview, Dr.
Pollard said he is hopeful
that renewed attention to
Jonathan will bring changes
in his son's situation.
Already, he says, Jewish
leaders have raised the is-
sue with President-elect Bill
Clinton.
Dr. Pollard believes the
increased interest is the re-
sult of a shifting perception
among American Jewry.
When news broke that
Jonathan had been caught
spying for Israel, American
Jews were embarrassed by
questions of dual loyalty, he
says. But today, "there is a
sudden realization" that the
Pollard affair is about some-
thing else. It is about "a mis-
carriage of justice."
A former civilian Navy in-
telligence analyst, Jonathan
Pollard was in 1985 sen-
tenced to life in prison for
passing U.S. military secrets
to Israel. His sentence was
the harshest in American
history for such an offense.
Since his imprisonment,
Jonathan has endured con-
stant harassment and un-
warranted punishment, his
father says.
While confined in a feder-
al penitentiary in Missouri,
Jonathan was transferred to
an insane asylum, though
both psychiatrists and the
prison director agreed he
was not mentally ill. "Mr.
Pollard ... was never clas-
sified or managed as a psy-
chiatric patient," prison
director J. Michael Quinlan
wrote in a letter to the
Pollards' lawyer.
Most recently, Jonathan
— now held in a Marion, Ill.,
penitentiary — was accused
of trying to incite a riot, Dr.
Pollard says. The Pollards
are perplexed. After all,
their son is in solitary con-
finement 23 hours a day (he
is allowed one hour of exer-
cise).
Morris and Mollie Pollard
visit their son, whom they
call "Jay," for seven hours
each month. His sister and
brother also regularly visit,
as do members of the ex-
tended family.
Many of their conversa-
tions are in Yiddish, much
to the frustration of prison
officials, who monitor the
visits.
Most of Jonathan's time is
spent reading and writing,
Mrs. Pollard says. He sub-
scribes to the Washington
Post, the Economist, Ha-
dassah and many Jewish
newspapers in the United
States.
"He also prays," his father
says.
Despite Jonathan's anger
with American government
leaders, he feels no animos-
ity toward his country. Mrs.
Pollard recalls an incident
in which a group of Russian
lawyers came to visit him in
prison, where they asked,
"Do you have any com-
plaints?"
"Yes," Jonathan an-
swered, recalling Soviet
Jews. "Let my people go."
Later, he confided to his
mother, "I'll be darned if I
was going to tell them any-
thing bad about this coun-
try."
The less said about an-
other government — that of
Israel — the better, as far
as the Pollards are con-
cerned.
"We're angry," says the
soft-spoken Dr. Pollard. "But
we cannot afford to lose our
tempers on this thing."
What Dr. Pollard will say
about Israeli government
leaders: "I don't trust them.
This (Jonathan's case) is the
first instance in history
when the government that
receives the benefit actual-
ly acts as the executioner."
Israel virtually abandoned
Jonathan after his arrest,
and its leaders have refused
to discuss the case with the
Pollard family. ❑
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and threatened the judge.
Bond was set at $20,000
and a preliminary exami-
nation was scheduled this
week on two counts of mali-
cious destruction of proper-
ty over $100, a four-year
felony, and two counts of
malicious destruction under
Michigan's ethnic intimida-
tion law, a two-year felony.
Sgt. Scheel said Mr.
Miller has no record of of-
fenses related to ethnic in-
timidation. ❑