US suspects Israel hid extent of spying: ex-envoy

[Scurrilous]

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"The United States refuses to release an American who spied for Israel because it suspects the Jewish state concealed the existence of other spies, a former Israeli envoy to Washington said on Monday.

Speaking to Israeli public radio, former ambassador Itamar Rabinovich said Washington never believed that Jonathan Pollard -- an American who is serving time for passing secret US documents to the Jewish state -- acted alone.

"The Americans suspect that Jonathan Pollard was not alone, that there were other Pollards and that Israel, despite all its promises, did not reveal all its cards," he said.

"They (punished) Israel on the back of Pollard and expressed their anger more with Israel than with Pollard," he added.
Asked about the possible existence of other Israeli spies in the United States, Rabinovich would say only: "I fear so."

And asked if Israel had come completely clean about details of the Pollard affair, he said: "To my knowledge, Israel hasn't said everything."

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[oberliner]

1. Would you say Pollard was a fall guy?

Maybe if Pollard gives up a name higher up the food chain they might cut him a deal for an early release.

[William deB. Mills]

2. Israel and U.S. National Security

It should not come as a surprise to anyone that Israel might act against the interests of the U.S., especially with the Stuxnet revelations and the argument that Stuxnet was a US cyberattack (on Iran) that Israel sabotaged intentionally to suck the US into launching an outright military attack. However, it is quite interesting that a former Israeli ambassador would hint that Israel is hiding information about the old Pollard case.

I was, by the way, somewhat surprised that the Democratic Underground does not have, as far as I could tell, a discussion about the impact of Israel on US national security or perhaps a broader discussion about how the U.S. should interact with the whole Muslim world. Anyone agree with me that such a topic would be worth focusing on?

[cyberswede]

3. Have you visited DU's Israel & Palestine Group?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1134

There might be such discussions there.