Adm. Thomas Moorer, retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and crew members of the USS Liberty seized on the Pollard spy case to call for a fresh look at.
he was handing over he asked israelis to buy that nice diamond and saphire ring. to propose to his wife. and yes he ended up going to prison too. reporter: prosecutors say pollard gave away more secrets than any other spy in american history. this case represents ape serious and i underscore serious, grave breach of national security secrets of this country. in a three-hour court hearing, pollard said what he had done was wrong he expected to be punished but asked for mercy for his wife ann henderson pollard saying he sacrificed her on an altar of political ideology selling secrets to israel. pollard given life in prison. his wife sobbed as she was sentenced to five years for helping. led to a hoeflding cell she could be heard screaming and pounding the walls. prosecutors think parole is
and yes he ended up going to prison too. reporter: prosecutors say pollard gave away more secrets than any other spy in american history. this case represents ape serious and i underscore serious, grave breach of national security secrets of this country. in a three-hour court hearing, pollard said what he had done was wrong he expected to be punished but asked for mercy for his wife ann henderson pollard saying he sacrificed her on an altar of political ideology selling secrets to israel. pollard given life in prison. his wife sobbed as she was sentenced to five years for helping. led to a hoeflding cell she could be heard screaming and pounding the walls. prosecutors think parole is unlikely. mr. pollard i believe will not see the light of day. jonathan pollard one of the highest profile, most lurid, and if you believe prosecutors, the
he was handing over he asked israelis to buy that nice diamond and saphire ring. to propose to his wife. and yes he ended up going to prison too. reporter: prosecutors say pollard gave away more secrets than any other spy in american history. this case represents ape serious and i underscore serious, grave breach of national security secrets of this country. in a three-hour court hearing, pollard said what he had done was wrong he expected to be punished but asked for mercy for his wife ann henderson pollard saying he sacrificed her on an altar of political ideology selling secrets to israel. pollard given life in prison. his wife sobbed as she was sentenced to five years for helping. led to a hoeflding cell she could be heard screaming and pounding the walls.
was arrested by the fbi after his wife basically narced him out to the u.s. government for spying for the soviet union. his name was john anthony walker. he had been stealing classified information from the navy for years. selling it to the soviet union. he had been doing this for almost 20 years. by the time the fbi finally caught up to him and arrested him in may 1985. walker had roped his immediate family into helping him with spying efforts. paid a lot by the soviets for doing it. eventually his wife turned him in. when the john anthony walker spying arrest was disclosed in 1985 it was shocking at the time. it turned out that it was just the first of many many such arrests and revelations that year. john walker was arrested in may, 1985. sfast fast forward. cement of that year. edward lee howard. edward lee howard worked at the cia. he had started selling u.s. intelligence to the soviet union in the previous year, 1984. the fbi was apparently tipped off that he might be a