Jonathan Pollard is arrested for espionage after passing classified Naval intelligence to Israel. Pollard, a civilian Naval Intelligence analyst, was later sentenced to life imprisonment for providing his Israeli contact with top secret American information on numerous Arab states.
Year
1985
Date of Event
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