Capturing the Navy’s Most Prolific Spy | True Life Spy Stories

Listen to my spy stories on the Heroes & Traitors with Philip Thompson podcast! 🎙️ Ways to support my channel: Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ Donate via PayPal: 💸 1985 was the ’Year of the Spy’. A dozen high profile espionage cases dominated news headlines in the United States as the Cold War entered its final phase. One of the spies outted in that year stood out from among his peers. Jonathan ’Jay’ Pollard was a Jewish American civilian intelligence analyst stationed at the US Navy’s Anti-Terrorist Alert Center (ATAC). Over a period of 18 months, Pollard supplied an estimated 30 cubic feet worth of claassifid and top secret material, not to the Soviet Union or another of the USA’s enemies, but to one of its closest allies - Israel. The revelation of his betrayal sent shockwaves through the inlelligen