Hello,
I enjoyed Birdsey's assessment of Pollard as having a "Walter Mitty-esque
fantasy life and personal desire to "be somebody". But I have to suspect that he
was only truly unusual in the amount of data he handed over. I don't see how we
can deny a constant leakage of information to the Israelis from a wide range of
otherwise very reliable workers. They never did nail down the "Mega" mole in the
White House. There was one fellow that looked like the mole but no one could
ever pin him down.
Can anyone tell me if Robert Hanssen was working on Israeli spying in his last
year at the FBI counter intelligence unit.
Best wishes,
Barry O'Connell

"Birdsey, David M" wrote:

> > Are they even actually married??
>
> He and his original wife divorced.  His ex-wife's father wrote a book
> entitled something like "Pollard: A Modern-Day Dreyfus" which would be
> laughable for its distortion of history (Dreyfus was *innocent*, after all)
> were it not for the shameful imho attempt to equate criticism and
> condemnation of Pollard's actions with antisemitism.
>
> > As I recall, Pollard HAD a different wife (Anne Louise
> > Henderson Pollard)
> > who at the time of his espionage activities sold information
> > he pilfered for
> > commercial gain (rather than patriotism or whatever weak justification
> > Jonathan and Esther claim now). His real wife was sentenced
> > to 5 years in
> > prison for her activities.
> >
> > Esther and Jonathan seem to want to reinvent the truth.
>
> For my money, the best book on Pollard is Wolf Blitzer's (who is Jewish, I
> believe) "Territory of Lies," which does give some credence to Pollard's
> patriotic motives (alas for Israel and not the U.S.), but more interestingly
> explores his Walter Mitty-esque fantasy life and personal desire to "be
> somebody" (I'll leave it to the psychiatrists and others to comment on that)
> that played as large a rolein his treason as the money.
>
> David M. Birdsey