Capturing the Navy's Most Prolific Spy | True Life Spy Stories

Listen to my spy stories (and more!) on the True Life Spy Stories podcast! 🎙️https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show... Ways to support my channel: Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompson Donate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284 1985 was the 'Year of the Spy'. A dozen high profile espionage cases dominated news headlines in the United States as the Cold War entered its final phase. One of the spies outted in that year stood out from among his peers. Jonathan 'Jay' Pollard was a Jewish American civilian intelligence analyst stationed at the US Navy's Anti-Terrorist Alert Center (ATAC). Over a period of 18 months, Pollard supplied an estimated 30 cubic feet worth of claassifid and top secret material, not to the Soviet Union or another of the USA's enemies, but to one of its closest allies - Israel. The revelation of his betrayal sent shockwaves through the inlelligence community and the public at large, and threatened to caused the USA and Israel to teeter on the brink of a diplomatic criss. His life sentence following a plea deal only served to fan the flames of controversry, with some regarding Pollard's punishment as a grave miscarriage of justice, while others believe he got exactly what he deserved. Primary sources (afiiliate links): 📕 Capturing Jonathan Pollard: How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice, Ronald J. Olive - https://amzn.to/47Ms53Q 📕 Miscarriage of Justice: The Jonathan Pollard Story, Mark Shaw - https://amzn.to/4b6pQLu 📕 The Hunting Horse: The Truth Behind the Jonathan Pollard Spy Case, Elliot Goldenberg - https://amzn.to/4b4g3Wm Further reading: 🌐 https://historyofspies.com/jonathan-p... 🌐 https://archive.org/details/territory... 🌐 https://amc.sas.upenn.edu/sites/defau... 🌐 https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/... 🌐 https://aish.com/48900367/ 🌐 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jonathan... 🌐 https://www.archives.gov/files/declas... 🌐 https://www.archives.gov/files/declas... 🌐 https://cryptome.org/jya/traitor.htm 🌐 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archiv... #jonathanpollard #philipthompson #truelifespystories