POLLARD'S NEW LAWYER URGES CLIENTS' EXILE TO ISRAEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Publication Date: January 9, 1987
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WASHINGTON POST
9 January 1987
Pollards' New Lawyer Urges Clients' Exile to Israel
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By Nancy Lewis
WasOinkt. I Post Stall Writer
consider handing the Pollards over
to the Israelis. Several lawyers said
no court has the authority to exile a
U.S. citizen or strip a person of cit-
izenship. A court could take notice
if a person renounces citizenship,
they said. The Pollards have not
clone that.
In a sentencing memorandum on
Pollard filed Tuesday, prosecutors
said Chief U.S. District Judge Au-
brey E. Robinson Jr. should not con-
sider whether Pollard spied for a
friendly or unfriendly country, only
that he broke the law. Robinson is
scheduled to sentence both Pollards
on Feb. 10.
Pollard, 31, faces a possible life
sentence for his espionage convic.
tion and Henderson-Pollard, 26,
could be sentenced to a maximum
of 10 years for her convictions of
possession of stolen government
documents and being an accessory
after the fact to possession of na-
tional security documents.
Pollard , was arrested Nov. 18,
1985, after the couple unsuccess-
fully sought political asylum at the
Israeli embassy here. Henderson-
Pollard was arrested the next day.
Israeli officials have maintained
that the spy ring, operated by Ra-
fael Eitan, a former terrorism ad-
viser to two Israeli prime ministers,
was a "renegade operation" that
was never officially sanctioned and
has been disbanded. Eitan was
made president of a large state-run
chemical company after he was re-
moved from his government posi-
tion.
Convicted spy Jonathan Jay Pol-
lard and his wife Anne Henderson-
Pollard should he stripped of their
American citizenship, barred for-
ever from the United States and
deported to Israel, a new member
of the Pollards' defense team said
yesterday.
New York lawyer Leon Charney,
who the Washington Jewish Week
in a recent report linked to some
highrgnking Israeli officials, said he
joined the case at the request of the
couple's families and that a "polit-
icaE.s?lution" is the only proper one
to tbi'Pojard case.
Exit from the United States
wnuId.:5e a "touch punishment," ac-
cording to Charney, even though
the Pollards unsuccessfully sought
political asylum at the Israeli em-
bassy here shortly before their ar-
rest in November 1985.
"I am convinced they did it for
ideological reasons," Charney said,
brushing aside prosecutors' claims
that the Pollards were motivated by
greed.
U.S. Attorney Joseph E. di-
Genova said he had no comment on
Charney's apparent entry into the
case. Richard Hibey, Pollard's at-
torney, could not be reached last
night and James F. Hibey, Hender-
son-Pollard's attorney, said he had
no comment on the new develop-
ment.
Sources said it was highly. unlike-
ly that the U.S. government would
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