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CAPTURING JONATHAN POLLARD: How one of the most notorious spies in American history was brought to justice
By Ronald J. Olive
Naval Institute Press, $27.95, 320 pages, illus.
REVIEWED BY JOSEPH C. GOULDEN
I'm about to ruin your Sunday morning, so please shove your coffee cup out of rage-range and take a deep breath.
Ready?
When the loathsome slug Jonathan Jay Pollard was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987 for stealing more than a million pages of highly-classified documents for the Israelis, U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova told reporters outside the courthouse, "It is likely he'll never see the light of day again."
What Mr. diGenova perhaps did not know was that just prior to Pollard's sentencing (on a guilty plea) there was an obscure rule change stipulating that persons sentenced to life must be paroled after 30 years if they maintained a good record in prison. Thus Pollard could walk out of prison on Nov. 23, 2013.
Take another deep breath; the best -- or more accurately, the worst -- is yet to come.
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