US to Release Israeli Spy Pollard, His Lawyers Say

The lawyers for convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard said Tuesday U.S. officials have decided to release him in November after 30 years' imprisonment. "We are grateful and delighted that our client will be released soon,'' said a statement from Pollard's lawyers, Eliot Lauer and Jacques Semmelman. The 60-year-old Pollard, a one-time civilian Navy analyst, was arrested in November 1985 when he unsuccessfully sought asylum in Israel's embassy in Washington. He...

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