within the U.S. Navy, Pollard delivered more than 1,000 classified
documents to Israel. He took documents from six restricted
archives: the Central Intelligence Agency, the FBI, the Defense In-
telligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Office of
Naval Intelligence, and his own office. The information detailed re-
connaissance of Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) head-
quarters in Tunis, including a description of all the buildings there,
the Libyan air defense system, and the movement of U.S., Soviet,
and French ships in the Mediterranean. This information enabled
the IAF to evade detection and bomb these headquarters on 1 Oc-
tober 1985. Pollard likewise provided information on the Iraqi and
Syrian chemical-warfare production capabilities, including detailed
satellite pictures and maps showing the location of factories and
storage facilities. Regular U.S. intelligence assessments of opera-
tions planned by a PLO unit were handed over, according to an
American account that was confirmed in Israel. He provided infor-
mation on Soviet arms shipments to Syria and other Arab states, in-
cluding the specifics on the SS-21 ground-to-ground and SA-5 an-
tiaircraft missiles. Whenever U.S. intelligence discovered that a
Soviet ship was passing through the Bosporus into the Mediter-
ranean, Pollard passed that information to his Israeli handlers. He
provided the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment of a partic-
ular Soviet-made fighter, and furnished details of Pakistan’s atomic
bomb program, including large satellite photographs of its nuclear
facility outside Islamabad.
In sum, Pollard gave Israel the choicest of U.S. intelligence
about Arab and Islamic conventional and unconventional military
activity, from Morocco to Pakistan. “Friendly” and “unfriendly”
Arab countries were included. Pollard even delivered documents
with the names of more than 150 U.S. agents in the Middle East,
who were eventually “turned” into agents for Israel. Pollard stole
and transferred to his Israeli handlers documents relating to the
U.S. nuclear deterrent relative to the Soviet Union. According to
unconfirmed sources, Israel then traded those stolen nuclear se-
crets to the Soviet Union in exchange for increased emigration
quotas from the Soviet Union to Israel. He even delivered to Israel
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