WAS JONATHAN POLLARD FRAMED?

Ex-agent: Pollard framed by Soviet spy (YNet)
Exclusive interview: Claims that Jonathan Pollard exposed 11 U.S. spies – charges that led judges to sentence the Israeli spy to life in prison – are false and were fabricated by Russia's top mole in America, a former senior Mossad operative intimately familiar with the affair says...

The former agent says shortly after Pollard's trial ended, Israel discovered Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger sent a top secret memorandum to the judge, accusing Pollard of exposing 11 American agents.

"The information the charge was based on arrived from the CIA, and more accurately, from the counter-espionage branch of the CIA. Only years later it turned out the person who headed the branch and initiated the move against Pollard…was a person by the name of (Aldrich) Ames, who all those years was the top Soviet spy in the U.S.," Eitan says.

"He simply took advantage of the Pollard affair to cast the blame for the affair he (Ames) himself was guilty of on Pollard, thereby clearing himself of suspicion," Eitan says. "I have no doubt that had Pollard been tried today, in light of what is known about Ames and other agents who were exposed, he would have received a much lighter sentence."