Texas-born Jonathan Jay Pollard is unusual in that he was a U.S. citizen who spied for one of our nation's allies, not one of our enemies.
Before receiving a life sentence in 1987 for spying for Israel, Pollard defended his actions on the basis that being Jewish, he had a higher calling to promote the welfare of the Jewish homeland. The court, on the other hand, firmly disagreed.
Pollard was a Navy intelligence officer whose handling of classified documents raised suspicions. After an FBI investigation, he was arrested in 1985 after an unsuccessful attempt to receive asylum in the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C.
Pollard's first wife, Anne, also served a much shorter prison sentence for having assisted her husband's activities. The couple divorced, and Pollard was remarried while in prison to a woman who has campaigned for his release or pardon.
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