A delegation of State and Justice Department officials will go to Israel early this week, possibly as early as Tuesday, to interview Israelis implicated in the case of Jonathan Pollard, Secretary of State George Shultz announced last Friday.
“We have every reason to believe that the issue involved will be resolved satisfactorily,” Shultz told a press conference. He said the team will be headed by Abraham Sofaer, the State Department’s legal advisor. Others in the team representing the Justice Department are Deputy Assistant Attorney General Mark Richard; John Martin, head of the Justice Department’s unit that manages espionage investigations; and Joseph diGenova, the U.S. Attorney for Washington. There are also members of the FBI, but they were not identified.
Pollard, 31, a U.S. Navy counterintelligence analyst, is being held without bail on the charge of selling classified information to Israel. His wife, Anne Henderson-Pollard, 25, is also being held without bail on the charge of unauthorized possession of classified documents.
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