You're listening to the CyberWire Network, powered by N2K. Hello and welcome to Spycast from the Secret Files of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

I'm Peter Ernest, the Executive Director of the Museum. I served for some

36 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, largely as what is called an Operations Officer

or a case officer.

Every month will be bringing you interesting talks with visitors,

with authors, with others who have something to do with the world of intelligence

and espionage.

Today my guest is Ron Olive, and he will be talking about a spy case that almost no one has forgotten, Jonathan Pollard.

Pollard was a very headline capturing case.

It went on for some time, and of course course as many of you know listeners he remains

in prison and even that has been a subject of controversy. Ron Olive is the

author of a book called Capturing Jonathan Pollard.

And it came out just this past October, published by the Naval Institute Press.

It is a fascinating account of actually observing Jonathan Pollard

in action as a spy and we very, very seldom have that and also the actual apprehension of Pollard for espionage.

So before going on too much longer here myself, Ron, I wonder if you could just give us some background

about yourself and how you came to be involved in the Pollard case.

Sure. I'd be happy to do that, Peter. and by the way, thank you for having me on your

spy cast.

Very exciting.

At the time when this case broke in November of 1985, I was the assistant special agent in charge for counterintelligence

at the Washington Field Office of the Naval Investigative Service.

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