Today is Thursday, June 4th, 2020.

On this day in 1986, Jonathan J. Pollard, an American intelligence analyst for the Navy,

pleaded guilty to spying for Israel.

For a little over a year,

Pollard passed off highly classified information and found himself behind bars for life. Welcome to Today, in True Crime, a parcast original.

Today we're covering Jonathan J. Pollard, an intelligence analyst who divulged highly classified information to Israel.

Let's go back to a Washington DC courthouse on the morning of June 4, 1986.

31 year old Jonathan J. Pollard before US district court judge Aubrey E

Robinson with sweat beating down his face. Standing beside Pollard holding his hand

was his wife, 25-year-old Anne Henderson Pollard.

As the two waited for Judge Robinson to address them, Pollard turned to his wife and gave her a reassuring smile.

Pollard wasn't the only one facing consequences for his actions.

Anne was too.

She was battling two severe charges of her own, conspiring to receive embezzled government

property and an accessory after the fact to possessing secret US military documents.

Prosecutors were looking for a sentence of 10 years in prison

and a half million dollar fine.

But while Anne received some of the attention,

the real focus was on her husband, Jonathan.

He was facing an even greater charge,

one that carried a penalty of life in prison.

He was accused of providing US military information to Israel an act of espionage.

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