by Yori Yalon and Israel Hayom Staff
James Woolsey, who led the CIA from 1993 to 1995, says imprisoned Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard should be released from U.S. prison, as he has been in jail much longer than spies working for other U.S. allies.
Imprisoned Israeli spy
Jonathan Pollard
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Speaking at a conference in Manhattan, former
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief James Woolsey called for the
U.S. to immediately release imprisoned Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.
Pollard, 59, was arrested by U.S. authorities in 1985 and later sentenced to life in prison.
Woolsey said that spies of other allies, such
as South Korea and the Philippines, that the U.S. has caught have
received sentences of six or seven years.
"If anybody is hung up over the fact that he's
an American Jew or that he's Israeli, just pretend that he's a South
Korean and set him free," Woolsey said of Pollard.
"He's been in prison a long time now, and the
only people who are in prison that long are people like [convicted CIA
spy Aldrich] Ames and [convicted FBI spy Robert] Hanssen who got people
killed, and Pollard didn't do that," Woolsey said.
Woolsey led the CIA from February 1993 to January 1995.
Yori Yalon and Israel Hayom Staff
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=13159
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