Spy Jonathan Pollard Caught on Tape
Surveillance video from 1985 shows American stealing secrets for Israel
By Lisa Myers & the NBC Investigative Unit
October 11th, 2006
WASHINGTON – What you see here is rarely caught on tape — a spy in action.
“This is Pollard actually in the act of stealing highly classified information,” says formal Naval investigator Ron Olive. “1500 top secret documents in a matter of seconds.”
Olive helped catch Jonathan Pollard and has written a book about the Navy intelligence analyst who spied for Israel.
NBC News has obtained surveillance video, which for the first time, actually shows Pollard pilfering classified documents and stuffing them into a briefcase supplied by Israel.
When a co-worker walks by, Pollard reaches to close his drawer, then resumes what’s he’s doing.
“That tells us that he knows that he is stealing,” says Olive.
Soon, the briefcase is so full Pollard has trouble closing it! But eventually he succeeds and walks out the door with some of America’s most sensitive secrets. (…. See Video Here)
