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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13LOOK WHO'S SORRY NOW
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- A life sentence has evidently given JONATHAN JAY POLLARD, who
- pleaded guilty in 1986 to selling U.S. secrets to Israel,
- plenty of time to ponder his deeds. "Dear Mom and Dad," he wrote
- in a lawyerly burst of remorse, "I regret the adverse effect
- which my actions had on the U.S. and the Jewish community . . . I
- have also reflected on how and why, despite my idealism about the
- world and Israel's place in it, I was capable of taking the
- actions I did." During an 18-month spying binge, the former Navy
- counterintelligence analyst gave hundreds of classified documents
- to Israeli contacts for some $45,000 in cash, claiming "anxiety"
- over Israel's vulnerability to attack. The passage of time has
- also given more weight to Pollard's excuse. His defenders, who
- want his sentence commuted, contend that his information on the
- Iraqi military was crucial to Israel during the gulf war.
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