Jailed spy Jonathan Pollard said he believes Israel’s decision last week to acknowledge that he was an agent of the Jewish state will hasten the day of his release from an American prison. “I know this will bring me one step closer to coming home and being with my wife,” he told Israel Radio. Pollard, a former U.S. naval intelligence analyst, has been serving a life sentence since 1987 for spying for Israel. Meanwhile, in an interview with CNN, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the Clinton administration to release Pollard, saying his spying was never intended to harm the United States.
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