NAVY CIVILIAN ARRESTED BY FBI, CHARGED WITH ESPIONAGE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Publication Date: November 22, 1985
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1'he FBI yesterday arrested a ci-
~?ilian :Navy employee outside the Is-
raeliEmbassy and charged him wtth
espionage for allegedly stealing
classified government documents
and selling them for "large amounts
uF rnoney."
Jonathan Jay Pollard was ar-
rested after a joint investigation by
the.FBI and the Naval Investigative
Service found "suspicious activity
on the part of Pollard;' an FBI
spokesman said.
The Navy analyst was arrested
yesterday morning outside the Is-
raeli Embassy and is suspected of
spying for the Israeli intelligence
service, federal sources told the As-
sociated Press.
}fie was arraigned in U.S. Distrrct
Court last night and ordered held
wrthout bond, pending a hearing
~~'ednesday.
a.n Israeli Embassy spokesman
confirmed that someone was de-
tarned in front of the embassy early
~es,:erdac, but paid he had no further
knowledge.
['he arrest coincided with the re-
lea_;e yesterday of a Pentagon report
recommen4ing changes in security
procedures ul the wake of the recent
'.Walker espionage case that involved
the transfer of Navy secrets to the
Soviet Union.
~Ir. Pollard was charged in a fed-
eral complaint tiled with U.S. ~tagis-
trate Patrick J. Attridge with hold-
ing classified documents and theft
of government property.
T'he complaint said ~Ir. Pollard
was an analyst with the Naval Inves-
tigative Service in Suitland, ~Id., and
is suspected of transferring "highly
classtfied documents relating to the
national defense:'
I'BI agents on Tuesday inter-
cepted a suitcase with ~Ir. Pollard's
name on it that had been given by his
wife to an unidentified third party,
according to court documents. The
suitcase contained highly classified
information, the papers stated.
~Ir. Pollard's wife, reached by
telephone, declined to comment or
provrde her full name.
~Ir. Pollard admitted he had given
these documents and other informa-
tion to agents of a foreign govern-
ment, according to an FBI spokes-
man.
U.S. .-attorney Joseph diGenova
declined to identify which foreign
country ~Ir. Pollard allegedly dealt
with.
He would not say whether further
arrests were anticipated.
In requesting that dir. Pollard be
held without bond, ;~Ir. diGenova
said the suspect had been out of the
country twice in the past year, and
was believed to be in possession of a
large amount of money received
from the ;ate of the information.
~4'hen asked about the nature of
the documents ~Ir. Pollard allegedly
sold, ~Ir. diGenova said, "He has
been charged with espionage. This
was not the list of lunch-time atten-
dees at the Press Club. The doc-
uments were highly classified."
The Pentagon has been under in-
creasing pressure to combat
espionage, ever since the Calker
family -John Walker, his son `fi-
chael and John's brother Arthur -
were nabbed by the FBI, putting an
end to an elaborate spy ring that pro-
videdsecrets to the Soviet L'nion for
more than 15 years. A family friend
allegedly was im'olved in the plot.
Yesterday's report by a Pentagon
advisory commission revealed that
"secret" and "confidential" security
clearances for government and de-
fense industry employees are
granted solely on the basis of a
check of federal criminal records
and would not uncover any leads in-
dicating suspicion of espionage un-
less the person under investigation
supplied the information.
The 62-page report, "Keeping The
Nation's Secrets;' called for improv-
ing the quality and frequency of
background investigations for
clearances. using credit checks, em-
ployerinterviews and the use of "be-
havioralscience research:'
"the advisory panel, headed by
former Army Gen. Richard G. Stil-
well. also recommended the in-
creased use of polygraph or lie de-
tector tests. rewards for informants
and harsh penalties for civilian and
military personnel who disclose or
sell secret data.
John and Michael Walker pleaded
guilty in Baltimore last month and
Arthur Walker was convicted in Au-
gust. Jerry :~. Whitworth, a suspect
in the spy ring, has pleaded not
guilty and is awaiting trial ur pan
Francisco, set for January.
"On the whole, fthe Defense De-
partment~ must be willing to pay a
higher price, in terms of both re-
sources and operational cume-
r.ience. to protect its classified infor-
mauon;'the report states.
Gen. Stilwell told reporters at a
Pentagon briefing yesterday that he
held a meeting with Soviet KGB o[-
ficial b'italy Yurchenko, considered
by some government intelligence
etperts to be a Soviet double agent.
fir 5'urchenko returned to the 5u-
?. ;et Onion earlier thrs month after
~har:r.g the CIA ~.vith k;dnapping
and druggtng him.
Gen. Stihvell described his meet-
in~ with ~(r. Yurchenko as "a plus"
rr,d card the KGB official "corrobo-
rated" ether information relating to
:he ~ovret (.'nion.
Pentagon counterintelligence di-
rector L. Brett Snider said Gen. Stil-
~.~e11's meeting with ~Ir. ~'urcher.ko
lid not affect the commission n Wort
srnce it took place after the report
had been completed. He said Gen.
Sr,lwell questroned `[r. ~'urcher.ku
un the KGB's analysis of weaknesses
in L'.S. security procedures.
Pentagon spokesman Robert aims
said that as a result of the commis-
sron report Defense Secretary Cas-
par Weinberger on T1lesday ordered
a "one-time, top-to-bottom security
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inspection" throughout the Defense
Department to fmd out if proper se-
curity procedures ha~~e been ;mple-
mented and followed.
The report criticizes the current
status of officers responsible for
handling security matters.
"Security officers are often
'buried' far do~.vn in the organization
and consequently have little oppor-
tunity to bring major problems or
meaningful recommendations to top
management attention;' the report
states. "iv'or do they possess the au-
thority to conduct effecti~~e over-
sight and deal wtth deficiencies:'
~Ir. Snider said in an inten?iew
that clearances below "top secret"
are granted on the basil of an appli-
cant's personal history statement.
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