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36. A couple of excerpts from his history:
Fri Dec 27, 2013, 11:33 PM
Dec 2013

Within a few days, in June 1984, Pollard started passing classified information to Sella and received, in exchange, $10,000 cash and a very expensive diamond and sapphire ring, which Pollard later used to propose marriage to his girlfriend Anne. He also agreed to receive $1,500 per month for further espionage.[25]
Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) investigator Ronald Olive has alleged that Pollard passed classified information to South Africa,[26] and attempted, through a third party, to sell classified information to Pakistan on multiple occasions.[27] Pollard also stole classified documents related to China on behalf of his wife, who used the information to advance her personal business interests and kept them around the house, where they were discovered by investigating authorities when Pollard's espionage activity came to light.[28][29][30]
During Pollard's trial, the government's memorandum in aid of sentencing challenges "defendant's claim that he was motivated by altruism rather than greed", asserting that Pollard had "disclosed classified information in anticipation of financial gain" in other instances.
During the course of the Pollard trial, Australian authorities reported the disclosure of classified American documents by Pollard to one of their own agents, a Royal Australian Navy officer who had been engaged in a personnel-exchange naval liaison program between the U.S. and Australia.[32] The Australian officer, alarmed by Pollard's repeated disclosure to him of data caveated No Foreign Access Allowed, reported the indiscretions to his chain of command, which in turn recalled him from his position in the U.S., fearing that the disclosures might be part of a "CIA ruse"

for a more in depth article try this from the New Yorker magazine: Why Jonathan Pollard should never be released (the Traitor)
It lists more of what Pollard had done with specifics. here are a couple of excerpts.

High-level suspicions about Israeli-Soviet collusion were expressed as early as December, 1985, a month after Pollard's arrest, when William J. Casey, the late C.I.A. director, who was known for his close ties to the Israeli leadership, stunned one of his station chiefs by suddenly complaining about the Israelis breaking the "ground rules." The issue arose when Casey urged increased monitoring of the Israelis during an otherwise routine visit, I was told by the station chief, who is now retired. "He asked if I knew anything about the Pollard case," the station chief recalled, and he said that Casey had added, "For your information, the Israelis used Pollard to obtain our attack plan against the U.S.S.R. all of it. The coordinates, the firing locations, the sequences. And for guess who? The Soviets." (boldface mine - Ronin)Casey had then explained that the Israelis had traded the Pollard data for Soviet emigres. "How's that for cheating?" he had asked.

They often deal with signals intelligence, or SIGINT, and their world is kept in order by an in-house manual known as the RASIN an acronym for radio-signal notations. The manual, which is classified "top-secret Umbra," fills ten volumes, is constantly updated, and lists the physical parameters of every known signal. Pollard took it all. "It's the Bible," one former communications-intelligence officer told me. "It tells how we collect signals anywhere in the world." The site, frequency, and significant features of Israeli communications -- those that were known and targeted by the N.S.A. -- were in the RASIN; so were all the known communications links used by the Soviet Union.

Your comment about whether one of our agents was executed is too stupid to warrant an answer.

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um....probably because he was found guilty of spying.... maximillian1974 Dec 2013 #1
Yeah... "Spying allegations?" There was a conviction, it's not allegations Scootaloo Dec 2013 #2
He pleaded guilty! alcibiades_mystery Dec 2013 #8
Perhaps billhicks76 Dec 2013 #3
Actually, they traded much of that information to the Soviet Union rpannier Dec 2013 #11
How about some comparison? question everything Dec 2013 #17
If Israel is our friend.. sendero Dec 2013 #23
It would be nice if you bother to educate yourself about foreign aid in general question everything Dec 2013 #27
Blather away.. sendero Dec 2013 #29
I feel sorry for you question everything Dec 2013 #30
Post removed Post removed Dec 2013 #32
Pollard is up for parole in 2015. Israel gave the info to Russia so it ended up in the same place okaawhatever Dec 2013 #24
And you know this, how? question everything Dec 2013 #28
A couple of excerpts from his history: okaawhatever Dec 2013 #36
Israel isn't a friend anasv Dec 2013 #38
The usual grandstanding to create great noise ... BlueMTexpat Dec 2013 #4
the reign of Raygun the Irreproachable.! lunatica Dec 2013 #16
Its more than just being eligible for parole grantcart Dec 2013 #18
Pollard is extremely lucky that he wasn't executed as a traitor LiberalEsto Dec 2013 #5
Will you hold the same opinion about Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen? question everything Dec 2013 #19
I question whether Israel is really a friend nt LiberalEsto Dec 2013 #20
This is obvious. Which means you are incapable of posting balanced opinion on this matter (nt) question everything Dec 2013 #21
So you can call yourself "question everything" LiberalEsto Dec 2013 #22
Pollard is still a traitor. hrmjustin Dec 2013 #34
As long as you want to execute traitors question everything Dec 2013 #31
Let's be accurate here LiberalEsto Dec 2013 #33
Snowden and Manning are heroes anasv Dec 2013 #39
The article states thast Pollard is an Israeli prisoner azurnoir Dec 2013 #6
Fuck him sideways alcibiades_mystery Dec 2013 #7
Maybe he'll get paroled in 2015. Thirty years is a long time. Comrade Grumpy Dec 2013 #9
Release Gov. Don Siegelman before no_hypocrisy Dec 2013 #10
++ nt dougolat Dec 2013 #12
They can pound sand Tom Ripley Dec 2013 #13
Meyer Lansky and Jonathan Pollard Jesus Malverde Dec 2013 #14
Why Obama won't pardon Pollard Jesus Malverde Dec 2013 #15
ha, ha, ha, ha, ha anasv Dec 2013 #40
Let's trade him.......... 4bucksagallon Dec 2013 #25
The president won't and should not pardon him. Let him take his chances with parole. hrmjustin Dec 2013 #26
Report: Kerry Offers Pollard's Release to Israel Jesus Malverde Dec 2013 #35
So are they letting Mordechai Vanunu leave Israel? 24601 Dec 2013 #37
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