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Investigator Who Captured Spy Jonathan Pollard Discusses Case [video 79min]

From the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, Ronald Olive talks about his book, Capturing Jonathan Pollard: How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice. Pollard was charged with selling over a million pages of classified material to the government of Israel during the 1980s. As part of the discussion, Olive gives an overview of the case and shows some of the evidence used against Pollard. Olive led the investigation of Jonathan Pollard for the Naval Investigative Service, were he worked for over 20 years. He currently runs a consulting and investigations company based in Arizona.
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