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J4JPnews release - Courtesy of IMRA - November 1, 2010
Former US Undersecretary of Defense Lawrence Korb was interviewed by IDF
Radio's Ilil Shachar on 31 October 2010 for the morning news magazine "Ma
Boer" (What's Burning?). Although the program was in Hebrew, the segment
with Dr. Korb is in English.
This interview was part of a wave of publicity following the publication of
a 27 September letter which Korb wrote to President Obama calling for the
immediate release of Jonathan Pollard.
Korb wrote that Pollard has served far too long for the offense he committed
by passing classified information to an ally, Israel, and he stated that
Pollard's sentence was politically biased and unfair. “Based on my
first-hand knowledge," Korb told the President, " I can say with confidence
that the severity of Pollard's sentence is a result of an almost visceral
dislike of Israel and the special place it occupies in our foreign policy on
the part of my boss at the time, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger.”
See full text of letter here >>
http://www.jonathanpollard.org/2010/092710a.htm.
When there was no response from the President, the letter was released
publicly and followed by op-eds in the LA Times and the Jerusalem Post and
by this interview with IDF Radio. The transcript below was provided courtesy
of Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director of IMRA.
TRANSCRIPT:
IDF RADIO: In the article that you wrote for the LA Times ou are saying
that in Pollard’s case the punishment does not fit the crime. Why not?
KORB: Well, because Jonathan Pollard was not charged with treason. He was
charged basically with giving information to a friendly country. And while
you cannot give away secrets to classified information to another country,
If it’s given to an ally of the United States, which Israel is, the sentence
usually is something like about seven or eight years, not life in prison.
Also the prosecutors, to get him to plead guilty and not have a trial which
could have released a lot of embarrassing information agreed not to ask for
a life sentence but when he was given a life sentence by the judge the
prosecutors didn’t complain. So Jonathan has been in jail for longer than
anyone in our history who has given information to a friendly country
IDF RADIO: You are saying that information that Casper Weinberger, the
Secretary of Defense, at the time of Pollard ‘s arrest gave to the court
implying that some of the information that Pollard had supplied to Israel
made its way to the Soviet Union was incorrect. Did Weinberger know that he
is giving false information to the court back then?
KORB: Not at the time because he knew that there was information getting to
the Soviet Union and he assumed that since Pollard had given this
information to Israel that somehow either the Soviets penetrated the Israeli
government or maybe Israel was trading information with the Soviet Union so
that Jewish people could be released from the Soviet union. But what
happened was there were two other spies actually working at the CIA, Aldrich
Ames and Robert Hanssen, and when they were arrested years later we found
out that in fact they were the ones who were giving the information . It
was not coming from Pollard to Israel to the Soviet Union.
IDF RADIO: Is there any security reason that the information that
Weinberger gave to court is still classified?
KORB: Probably people are concerned about what we call sources and methods.
My personal opinion is no. I mean, so many years have passed that whatever
information should have been classified then could be released now.
IDF RADIO: It is obviously not easy to stand for someone who has spied in
your country. But you sent a letter to President Obama and a few days ago
published the article in the LA Times. Why did you do that? Why did you
decide to do that?
KORB: I did it because I think that Jonathan Pollard has served way too
long for the crime that he committed. I think, as I put in that article, he
deserves to be severely punished, but I don’t think that he should be
punished more than people who have given information to Saudi Arabia or
China or other countries. He is being punished like people who provided
information to an enemy of the United States. And so therefore I think that,
basically, justice demands that he be released after having served twice as
long as anyone who has ever provided information to a friendly country.
SEE ALSO:
Video: IDF Radio Interview with Former US undersecretary of Defense Lawrence
Korb http://www.jonathanpollard.org/2010/103110b.htm
Text: Letter from Lawrence Korb to President Obama
http://www.jonathanpollard.org/2010/092710a.htm
Korb: Declassify documents that incriminated Pollard - Jerusalem Post
http://www.jonathanpollard.org/2010/103110.htm
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