Lawyer Katz Says He Didn’t Know Pollards
Harold Katz, an American attorney living in Tel Aviv, on Thursday denied any involvement in the Jonathan Jay Pollard spy case.
Sources in the Reagan Administration have said U.S. investigators believe Katz’s Washington apartment was used to photocopy classified military documents obtained by Pollard, a Navy analyst.
In a telephone interview, Katz said: “Yes, that’s my name that’s being mentioned. But I can tell you that the report is totally untrue. I never heard of them (the Pollards) until it got into the papers, I never saw these people, I know nothing about that operation.”
Pollard, 32, who was arrested in November, 1985, pleaded guilty to espionage last June and was sentenced on March 4 to life in prison for selling Israel hundreds of classified military documents in 1984-85. His wife, Anne Henderson-Pollard, 26, received a five-year term for conspiring to receive embezzled government property and being an accessory after the fact to possession of defense secrets.
Israel is resisting U.S. efforts to question Katz and does not want him to leave Israel, an Administration source said.
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