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By Way of Deception

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14Only in AmericaWHEN JONATHAN J. Pollard, 31, and his wife, Anne Henderson-Pollard, 25, were arrested in late November 1985, after a failedattempt to gain asylum at the Israeli embassy in Washington, thepredictable political fall-out focused attention for a time on anembarrassing and explosive question: does the Mossad activelyoperate in the United States?Officially, the Mossad says no, no, a thousand times no.Absolutely not. Indeed, Mossad katsas are forbidden even to carryphony U.S. passports or use U.S. covers in their work, so delicateis the situation between the state <strong>of</strong> Israel and its largest and mostinfluential supporter.How to explain Pollard, then? Easy. He wasn't Mossad. Rather, hehad been receiving $2,500 a month since early 1984 from anorganization called Lishka le Kishrei Mada or LAKAM, the Hebrewacronym for the Israeli defense ministry's Scientific Affairs LiaisonBureau, and was spiriting secret documents to the home <strong>of</strong> IritErb, a secretary at the Israeli embassy. LAKAM was then headedby Rafael Eitan, who publicly denied any connection, but was aformer Mossad katsa who had taken part in the 1960 abduction <strong>of</strong>Adolf Eichmann from Argentina.Pollard, a Jew, worked in research at the U.S. Intelligence SupportCenter in Suitland, Maryland, near Washington, part <strong>of</strong> the NavalInvestigative Service. In 1984 he was switched to267

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