CNN The Situation Room July 24, 2015 21:32:00
>> well they just said what he did was serious and you can't release him, but what a number of these other filipino american and greek americans spies stole was important. what pollard stole was something, as long as it stayed in israeli hands, was not particularly a problem for the united states. what i think they were worried about at the time back in the '80s is israel's intelligence service might be penetrated and the soviets or somebody like that may have been able to get ahold of the material. why they kept him 30 years instead of 10 let's say, i've never had anybody give me a reasonable...
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