CONTACT SAID TO PAY FOR ACCUSED SPY'S TRIPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000302440010-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2012
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 7, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
7 December 1985
Contact Said to
PaY for Accused
Spy's TriPs
By Joe Pichirallo
and John M. Goshko
Washington Post Staff Writers
Jonathan Jay Pollard, accused of
selling classified U.S. documents to
Israel, has told the FBI that he and
his wife we to Israel twice within
the past yel r and that the trips
were financ by his unidentified
"contact " federal prosecutors dis-
closed yesterday.
Sources said that Pollard identi-
fied the "contact" as an Israeli of-
ficial.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State
George P. Shultz said yesterday
that a delegation of State and Jus-
tice department officials will leave
for Israel early next week to inter-
view Israeli officials about their
connections with Pollard.
"We have every reason to believe
that the issues involved will be re-
solved satisfactorily," Shultz said at
a news conference.
His statement came amid indica-
tions over the past week that some
U.S. officials, particularly in the
Justice Department, were irritated
by what they regarded as Israeli
delaying tactics over the ground
rules for the trip.
"We expect matters to go for-
ward expeditiously and properly,"
said Shultz, who added that the del-
egation will be headed by State De-
partment legal adviser Abraham D.
Sofaer, a former federal judge who
recently presided over the libel trial
that former Israeli defense minister
Ariel Sharon brought against Time
magazine.
Israeli sources said the recent
discussions, which followed an
agreement in principle worked out
Sunday between Shultz and Israeli
Prime Minister Shimon Peres, fo-
cused on what the U.S. officials
would be able to do in Israel.
These sources said that the
Peres government, for domestic
political reasons, wants the trip to
be seen as a fact-finding mission
and not an official U.S. investigation
on Israeli soil.
In addition to gathering evidence
about the extent of Pollard's alleged
spying, U.S. officials also hope to
ubtain a better assessment of the
possible national-security damage
caused by any Pollard disclosures.
Peres has promised Shultz that
any classified documents allegedly
obtained from Pollard, a civilian
Navy counterterrorist anaylst, will
be returned to the United States.
The Pollard case has strained
normally close relations between
the United States and Israel, but
officials of both countries have said
they do not expect lasting damange.
A federal grand jury has begun
investigating the case, and wit-
nesses appearing before it have in-
cluded Bernard R. Henderson, Pol-
lard's father-in-law, and friends of
the Pollards.
Henderson, a public relations ex-
ecutive, said yesterday that the
grand jury asked what his daughter,
Anne Henderson-Pollard, told him
about her activities.
Yesterday, U.S. District Court
Judge John H. Pratt postponed until
Monday a decision on a request
from Henderson-Pollard's lawyer
that he overturn a lower court and
release Henderson-Pollard on bail.
Pollard, 31, who is charged with
espionage, is also being field with-
out bond.
Henderson-Pollard, who is
charged with unauthorized posses.
sion of secret U.S. documents, "was
well aware they were classified doc-
uments; some were stamped top-
secret," Pratt said.
"This is not exactly a naive young
woman," the judge added. "She is a
sophisticated person."
At a court hearing last week, FBI
agent Eugene J. Noltkamper tes-
tified that Pollard admitted selling
secret U.S. documents to Israel.
Pollard has told the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation that he was
paid $2,500 a month in cash during
the V/z years that he spied for Is-
rael, Noltkamper said.
The agent stated that Pollard
said his payment also included two
foreign trips financed by his "han-
dier." Yesterday was the first time
the government revealed that the
trips included stops in Israel.
According to court papers filed
by prosecutors, the couple went to
Israel in November 1984 and July
1985.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/10/04: CIA-RDP90-00965R000302440010-1