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Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard who posed as US Navy officer will be released Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard who posed as US Navy officer will be released | Daily Mail Online Israeli spy who was jailed for life in 1987 after collecting 1,500 pieces of intelligence and 800 classified documents while serving as a U.S. Navy officer is set to be freedUS Navy intelligence officer Jonathan Pollard convicted of spying for IsraelTexas native had turned over more than 800 highly classified documentsIs serving time in federal prison in Butner, North Carolina, after guilty pleaRelease of 60-year-old could help smooth relations after Iran nuclear dealHas November parole consideration and US Parole Commission will decideSupporters say he should be released due to poor health and harsh penalty ByDaily Mail Reporterand Reuters Published:15:21 EST, 24 July 2015 |Updated:21:50 EST, 24 July 2015 143shares 5 View comments The Obama administration ispreparing to release Jonathan Pollard, a former US Navy intelligenceofficer convicted of spying for Israel in 1985 and sentenced to life in federal prison two years later. The release would end a decades-long fight between Israeland the US over Pollard, 60, and some US officials hope the move willsmooth relations with Israel following the Iran nuclear deal. Any ruling about Pollard, who pleaded guilty, would be made by the US Parole Commission.

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Israeli spy who was jailed for life in 1987 after collecting 1,500 pieces of intelligence and 800classified documents while serving as a U.S. Navy officer is set to be freedUS Navy intelligenceofficer Jonathan Pollard convicted of spying for IsraelTexas native had turned over more than 800highly classified documentsIs serving time in federal prison in Butner, North Carolina, after guiltypleaRelease of 60-year-old could help smooth relations after Iran nuclear dealHas November paroleconsideration and US Parole Commission will decideSupporters say he should be released due topoor health and harsh penalty

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Published:15:21 EST, 24 July 2015 |Updated:21:50 EST, 24 July 2015

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The Obama administration ispreparing to release Jonathan Pollard, a former US Navyintelligenceofficer convicted of spying for Israel in 1985 and sentenced to life in federal prison twoyears later.

The release would end a decades-long fight between Israeland the US over Pollard, 60, and some USofficials hope the move willsmooth relations with Israel following the Iran nuclear deal.

Any ruling about Pollard, who pleaded guilty, would be made by the US Parole Commission.

The Obama administration could release convicted spy Jonathan Pollard (seen in 1998) from federalprison

The former US Navy intelligence officer was convicted of spying for Israel in 1985 and sentenced tolife

Pollard's supporters say he is being punished far too harshly since Israel is a United States ally

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Some US officials are pushing for Pollard's release in amatter of weeks, while others expect it couldtake months,possibly until his parole consideration date in November, the Wall Street Journalreported.

The Texas native, 60, had turned over more than 800 highly classified documents when he pleadedguilty

The Texas native had turned over more than 800 highly classified documents and 1,500 currentintelligence summary messages by the time he was caught, according to USA Today.

He was arrested outside the Israeli Embassy after failing to get political asylum.

When he was arrested, the Stanford graduate was working as analyst for the Navy's Anti-terroristAlert Center and his wife at the time, Anne Henderson Pollard, was also sentenced to prison.

A US official said she was not aware that Pollard would bereleased before he is eligible for parole inNovember.

He had a parole hearing earlier this month.

President Obama told an Israeli interviewer last year: 'I have no plans for releasing Jonathan Pollardimmediately but what I am going to be doing is to make sure that he, like every other Americanwho's been sentenced, is accorded the same kinds of review and the same examination of theequities that any other individual would provide.'

Some US officials hope Pollard's release will smooth relations with Israel following the Iran nucleardeal

Pollard, is currently serving his time in a federal prison in Butner, North Carolina (seen above)

Heckler reportedly called for release of Pollard in March

Pollard's supporters say he is being punished far tooharshly since Israel is a US ally and that muchof theclassified information he passed on caused no damage to theUnited States and that it wasintelligence that Israelpreviously had access to.

His supporters also say he should be released because of hispoor health, with his attorney saying hesuffers from diabetesand high blood pressure.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has personallypressed for years to get the United Statesto release Pollard,who is currently serving time in a federal prison in Butner,North Carolina.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach said it was 'highly inhuman and unjust' to hold Pollard for so long and thathe found out about the impending release from Senator Ted Cruz, The Hill reported.

'I was told that Sen Cruz had met with the Justice Department and other representatives from otherbranches of government and they said that he was going to be paroled in November,' Boteach said.

'If President Obama played a role, and I don't have that information, in his release, then I thank thepresident immensely for this humanitarian gesture and God bless President Obama for doing so.'

Read more:U.S. Preparing to Release Convicted Israeli Spy Jonathan Pollard, Officials Say -WSJJonathan Pollard: Israel's prolific American spyWhite House readying to release spy JonathanPollard: report | TheHill

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