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Free Pollard

Jonathan Pollard remains behind bars,
21 years after sentencing, a longer period
served than any other person in U.S.
history for the conviction of passing clas-
sified information to a foreign power.
Illegal as his activities undoubtedly were,
Pollard passed on classified information
to Israel, a U.S. ally, not a U.S. enemy. He
did not spy for a hostile foreign power.
His illegal acts did not lead to the harm-
ing or death of U.S. intelligence agents in
other countries.
Additionally, the way Pollard was
convicted and sentenced exceeds all
necessary severity in dealing with such a
case. In conducting his defense, Pollard
and his attorneys were denied perusal of
a 46-page U.S. Department of Defense
memorandum detailing the nature of the
information passed on to Israel from the
presiding judge. This occurred despite
provisions made for their access to the
documentation and thereby circum-
scribed their ability to argue his case.
Moreover, Pollard pled guilty as part of a
plea bargain, yet he was shown no lenien-
cy and was given the maximum sentence.
This sentence is comparable to that
meted out to Aldrich Ames, the chief
of CIA counterintelligence in Eastern
Europe, who passed critical defense
secrets to the Soviet Union during the
Cold War and who was found responsible
for the deaths of at least 11 U.S. agents.
Pollard has expressed a desire to move
to Israel and Israel has indicated it would
accept him. In view of all the circum-
stances, that scenario would be desirable.
For these reasons, we assert that the on-
going imprisonment of Jonathan Pollard
is unnecessary, unjust, disproportionate
and inexplicable in terms of protecting
the national interest. We respectfully
appeal to you to put an end to what is
now an inequitable term of imprison-
ment and pardon Jonathan Pollard.
This letter should be written to our
new president by every Jewish person
reading it.

Marilyn Fishman

West Bloomfield

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