Explosive! Pollard Petition Reveals Titles Of Docs Provided To Israel [List Included]

2005-08-15

Justice4JP Release

Jonathan Pollard's attorney today filed a petition in Israel Supreme Court, which for the first time reveals some of the unclassified titles of the documents which Israel returned to the US, and specifically reveals the titles of those documents which the US used as evidence against him.

The petition asks the Supreme Court to investigate the violation of a commitment that the US made to Israel not to use the documents which Israel returned in the prosecution of its agent. The petition states that when the US immediately used the documents against Pollard to coerce a guilty plea and to force him to accept a plea agreement, Israel never protested.

It establishes that for 20 years Israel has never protested that Pollard's sentence was obtained by the US on the basis of INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. Nor has Israel ever informed Pollard of the agreement or its violation by the US so that he could use the information to defend himself.

Pollard's petition is based on the EBAN Commission Report - an official Israeli Government Document - which investigated the Pollard affair nearly 2 decades ago. The original report is classified, but MKs and others received an unclassified copy in 1987.

In the year 2000 Pollard obtained an unclassified Knesset version of the report from Minister of Tourism Rechavam Ze'evi, z"l. The EBAN Commission Report documents the commitment made by the US not to use the returned documents against Pollard. [A copy of this report in is posted to the J4JP web site. See section: The Decision to Cooperate with the US http://www.jonathanpollard.org/ 7890/052687.pdf .]

Before turning to the High Court to force the Government to confront the US about this violation and to demand his release because his sentence was obtained on the basis of inadmissible evidence, Pollard spent years quietly appealing to Israeli officials to act behind the scenes. All of Pollard's quiet appeals, right up to the time he met with the Ambassador in May of this year, fell on deaf ears in the Israeli government.

The unclassified titles of the returned documents, which are exposed for the first time in the Pollard petition, were part of a list of documents which Israel returned to the US. Most importantly, these documents are specifically those documents which the US selected for use as evidence against Pollard.

In other words, these are the documents which the US used as evidence to show the "damage" Pollard did. Pollard learned this and the titles from information he received via a Freedom of Information Act request, asking for the evidence the US had used against him.

The titles of the documents show that they are all about war preparedness and weapons systems which were obtained by enemies of Israel, for use against Israel. The "damage" Pollard did to the US, as clearly shown by these exhibits, was to give Israel the ability to defend herself from enemies. None of the documents which the US used as evidence against Pollard concerned American agents, codes, installations, war plans, troop dispositions, or programs. In fact, they were not about America at all!

Here is a list of the titles included in Pollard's court petition. The titles raise troubling questions ancillary to those raised in Pollard's petition. Among them: Why was the US so angry that Pollard let Israel know about the war capabilities and weapons systems obtained by her enemies? Did Pollard "damage" US national security, as the Americans have claimed? Or, as these document titles show - and again these were the documents used as evidence against Pollard - or did he simply "damage" an American pro-Arab policy that preferred a weak Israel, deprived of vital information, and unable to defend herself?

Here are the titles. Judge for yourself:

• Document control no: 99-74: DST-1060B-315-83, October/83: SPECIAL TECHNICAL REPORT ON THE SOVIET SA-13 MISSILE SYSTEM.
• Document control no 99-75: DST-1060S-174-84, Nov/84: NAVAL SAM SYSTEM TRENDS - USSR
• DST-1200S004-85, Mar/85: RADIATED NOISE LEVELS OF SHIPS AND SUBMARINES WORLDWIDE.
• Document control no: 99-74 (a and b) (also check 99-76a) Listed below:
• DDB-1200-1S-83, SEPT/83: NAVAL FORCES INTELLIGENCE STUDY - ISRAEL
• DDB-2040-122-83, Apr/82: PORT FACILITIES STUDY: TUBRUG PORT COMPLEX, LIBYA
• DDB-1730-42-84, Jul/84: IRAN-IRAQ ELECTRONIC WARFARE CAPABILTIES
• DDB-2600-3758-84, Jun/84: MILITARY IMPLICATIONS OF LOGISTICAL INFRASTRUCTURAL EXPANSION IN SOUTH YEMEN
• DDB-1200-310-84, Jan/85: UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE AND THE LIBYAN ARAB NAVY
• DDB-1950-32-85, Jan/85: A SURVEY OF THE BASIC INDUSTRIES OF EGYPT: IRON & STEEL/ALUMINUM/CEMENT [Industrial war capabilities].
• 99-77: DST-1260S-084-84, Feb/84: ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SOVIET TORPEDOS
• DST-1260S-120-84, Mar/84: NAVAL MINES AND MINE COUNTERMEASURES (SELECTED FREE WORLD AND THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES)
• DST-1330S-021-85, Jan/85: OTOMAT ANTISHIP MISSILE SYSTEM (CRUISE MISSILE AND TACTICAL AIR-TO-SURFACE MISSILES - FREE WORLD)
• 99-78: DST-1810S-440-83, Sep/83: MEDICAL CAPABILITIES STUDY: SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC (Studies warfare capabilities and ability to resist attack; factors governing military morale).
• 99-79: DST-1710S-390-84, Aug/84: NEW AIRCRAFT CONTROL AND WARNING RADAR DEVELOPMENTS - USSR
• DST-1710H-507-85, Vol.1, May/85: RADAR HANDBOOK
• 99-80 (a and b): DST-1350S-025-85, Aug/85: MAINSTAY: A SUPPORT SYSTEM
• DST-1330S-166-82, Sept/82: SOVIET AA-6 (ACRID) AIR-TO-AIR MISSILE SYSTEM
• DST-1330S-181-83, Feb/83: SOVIET DR-1 DRONE SYSTEM
• DST-1330S-167-83, May/83: SOVIET AA-7 AIR-TO-AIR MISSILE SYSTEM
• DST-2700S-047-85, Jan/85: Soviet HEL (High Energy Laser) technology for weaponization
• DST-1740S-156-84, Mar/85: AIRBORNE RECONNAISSANCE SENSORS - ECC
• DST-1330S-168-85, Mar/85: SOVIET AA-8 (APHID) AIR-TO-AIR MISSILE SYSTEM
• DST-1330S-142-82, Apr/82: SOVIET KAS-2 (KIPPER) AIR-TO-SURFACE MISSILE SYSTEM (Critical life and death information.)
• 99-141 (a to e): DST-1060e-391-84, Jan/84: SOVIET SA-8 SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE SYSTEM
• 99-152 -Titles: SYRIAN MILITARY CAPABILITIES AND THE POTENTIAL THREAT TO JORDAN
• IRAN-IRAQ: THE ENDLESS WAR
• EXOCET MISSILE SYSTEM
• CBW CAPABILITIES - NATO COUNTRIES
• CBW NON-ALIGNED COUNTRIES (JAPAN, FINLAND, PAKISTAN)
• WORLD-WIDE TANK PRODUCTION OVERVIEW
• INDIA-PAKISTAN: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
• AERODYNAMIC MISSILE HANDBOOK - USSR/CHINA
• NAVAL ORDER OF BATTLE, VOL. 111, PART 1 - NORTH AFRICA/MEDITERRANEAN

Nitsana Darshan- Leitner filed the petition in Israeli Supreme Court today on behalf of Jonathan Pollard. Larry Dub is of counsel.

SEE ALSO:

Legal Doc [Hebrew] Jonathan Pollard's Eban Commission Report Petition to Israeli Supreme Court - (Word file) (Coming soon to the Bagatz Page at www.jonathanpollard.org) The Bagatz Page www.jonathanpollard.org/ 2005/petition.htm

Source: IMRA – Independent Media Review and Analysis