For the next three months, Sella cultivated Pollard. He invited him
to expensive restaurants and to Broadway shows and continued to
courier documents given to him by Pollard to Tel Aviv. Eitan de-
cided to meet the source himself. In November 1984 Sella and Yagur
paid for a first-class flight for Pollard and his future wife Anne An-
derson to Paris. There Eitan and Pollard concluded the details of
how the latter would be operated. Yagur was assigned to be Pollard’s
handler. Pollard was instructed to deliver documents for copying to
Irit Erb, a secretary at the Israeli embassy in Washington, at her
rented apartment. A high-speed copier was installed in the apart-
ment. Pollard was instructed to hand documents to Yagur as well, in
a series of prearranged drops at car washes in Washington. While
Pollard’s car was being washed, Yagur would photocopy the docu-
ments with a battery-operated copier installed beneath the dashboard
of his car. Erb’s apartment and the car washes were close to Wash-
ington’s National Airport, making it easier for Yagur to move
quickly between New York and Washington. From his office in the
New York consulate, Yagur faxed the documents to Tel Aviv, using
a secure line.
Why Pollard betrayed his country became clearer later. After Sella
and Yagur became convinced that Pollard was not bait in an Ameri-
can trap, they got the impression that his motives combined support
for Israel and dissatisfaction with his superiors, who did not suffi-
ciently appreciate him, as Pollard saw it. Later it became clear to
Sella that economic motivation was of the utmost importance to Pol-
lard: he was after a great deal of money—thousands of dollars a
month. Eventually his recruiters would have to cool his ardor, telling
him to tone down his behavior so as not to make his sudden wealth
so obvious.
In their initial arrangement, Sella gave Pollard $2,000, suppo-
sedly from his private account; thereafter he was paid $1,500 for
every packet of documents he delivered monthly to Yagur. He soon
proved himself an industrious, wholesale supplier of classified doc-
uments who earned his wages. His pay was raised to $2,500 a
month, with a matching sum set aside as a sort of scholarship or
provident fund.
Regarding the kind of information that was relevant for Israel,
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