Pollard’s Wife Was Partner in Spying, Prosecutors Say

The wife of convicted spy Jonathan Jay Pollard was an informed and cooperative participant throughout her husband’s conspiracy to sell U.S. military secrets to Israel, prosecutors said Wednesday in court papers.

Anne Henderson-Pollard, 26, convicted of lesser spying charges than her husband, “was knowledgeable of his purpose from its inception” and helped Pollard in an unsuccessful attempt to recruit a friend into the spy ring, the Justice Department said in a sentencing memo.

Knew of Drop Site

Henderson-Pollard kept secret documents her husband had given her, was shown his drop site and alerted Israeli contacts when Pollard learned he was under investigation, the memo, filed in U.S. District Court, said.

The Pollards, who pleaded guilty in June, are scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 10 by Judge Aubrey E. Robinson.

Pollard, 32, a former civilian Navy counterintelligence analyst, could get life in prison for conspiring to sell military secrets to his Israeli contacts.

Henderson-Pollard, who pleaded guilty to conspiring to embezzle government property and to being an accessory after the fact in possession of secret documents, faces a possible 10-year term.

Federal prosecutors said, however, that their investigation determined that Henderson-Pollard “was a cooperative, willing co-conspirator who provided assistance, as necessary, for her husband’s espionage activities.”

Prosecutors agreed not to oppose two concurrent five-year terms for her, and the memo urges that she be sent to prison for “a period of years.”