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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787301803321

Autore

Olive Ronald J.

Titolo

Capturing Jonathan Pollard : how one of the most notorious spies in American history was brought to justice / / Ronald J. Olive

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Annapolis, Maryland : , : Naval Institute Press, , [2006]

©2006

ISBN

1-61251-454-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

364.1/31

Soggetti

Spies - Israel

Spies - United States

Espionage, Israeli - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-286) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""List of Acronyms""; ""1. A Dream Come True""; ""2. Pollard Launches His Career""; ""3. The Double-Agent Ruse""; ""4. Pollard's Battle with the Navy ""; ""5. Red Flags""; ""6. The Israeli Connection ""; ""7. The Point of No Return ""; ""8. A Thief in the Night ""; ""9. The Fall Guy ""; ""10. The Ten-Year Plan ""; ""11. Tall Tales""; ""12. A Secret Tip ""; ""13. The Wheel Begins to Turn ""; ""14. The Beginning of the End ""; ""15. A Twist of Fate""; ""16. Pollard Balks ""; ""17. The Confession ""; ""18. A Fatal Blunder""; ""19. A Spy Left Out in the Cold ""

""20. Unrepentant""""21. No Time to Lose ""; ""22. Operation Foul Play ""; ""23. Israel Confronted""; ""24. Guilty ""; ""25. The Damage""; ""26. The Sentencing ""; ""27. The Aftermath ""; ""28. More Sinned Against Than Sinning? ""; ""Epilogue ""; ""Appendix ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes ""; ""Index ""; ""About the Author ""

Sommario/riassunto

Jonathan Pollard, an intelligence analyst working in the U.S. Naval Investigative Service's Anti-Terrorist Alert Center, systematically stole highly sensitive secrets from almost every major intelligence agency in the United States. In just eighteen months he sold more than one million pages of classified material to Israel. No other spy in U.S. history has stolen so many secrets, so highly classified, in such a short



period of time. Author Ronald Olive was in charge of counterintelligence in the Washington office of the Naval Investigative Service that investigated Pollard and garnered the co