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While working as a United States Naval civilian intelligence analyst in the 1980s, Jonathan Pollard sold some one million pages of classified material to Israel, doing "irreparable damage to the national defense of the United States," in the eyes of author Olive, who was serving as the assistant special agent in charge of foreign counterintelligence at the Naval Investigative Service's Washington, D.C., field office at the time of Pollard's arrest. In this book he sets out to clear up what he perceives as continuing misperceptions and uncertainties about Pollard's spying activities, arrest, and imprisonment, including those surrounding Pollard's confession, other involved countries, and the role played by the 46-page memorandum provided to the judge by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger in Pollard's sentencing. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Jonathan Pollard, an intelligence analyst working in the U.S. Naval Investigative Service's Anti-Terrorist Alert Center, systematically stole highly sensitive secrets from almost every major intelligence agency in the United States. In just eighteen months he sold more than one million pages of classified material to Israel. No other spy in U.S. history has stolen so many secrets, so highly classified, in such a short period of time. Author Ronald Olive was in charge of counterintelligence in the Washington office of the Naval Investigative Service that investigated Pollard and garnered the confession that led to his arrest in 1985 and eventual life sentence. His book reveals details of Pollard's confession, his interaction with the author when suspicion was mounting, and countless other details never before made public. Olive points to mistaken assumptions and leadership failures that allowed Pollard to ransack America's defense intelligence long after he should have been caught.
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