Wife Calls on Israel to Help Free Pollard, Grant Him Citizenship
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TEL AVIV — The wife of U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard, who was convicted of spying for Israel, has urged the Jewish state to help free her husband.
Anne Henderson-Pollard told the Jerusalem Post in an interview published Sunday:
“I would beg the Israeli leadership--for all that my husband has done for the security of Israel--to grant citizenship to my husband and to let him return to his homeland so that he can become a productive citizen.”
Pollard is in prison in the United States awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty in June to espionage charges. He was arrested in November, 1985, outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington and admitted passing secret U.S. documents to an Israeli spy ring.
Henderson-Pollard, 26, pleaded guilty to lesser charges of possessing classified documents.
She said her husband’s “main objective was to do everything in his power to avert an Arab-Israeli war.”
“Jay stressed to me over the years the importance of Israel, and the fact that the U.S. was not forthcoming with information to Israel as they had promised,” she was quoted as saying.
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