(born August 7, 1954 in Galveston, Texas)
is a former United States Naval
civilian intelligence
analyst who was convicted of spying for Israel.
Pollard waived the right to trial as part of a plea deal for himself
and his wife, pleaded guilty and was convicted on one count of spying
for Israel. He received a life sentence in 1987 with a recommendation
against parole. He was incarcerated at the federal
penitentiary in Marion, Illinois in solitary confinement for
seven years, then transferred to Butner Federal Correctional Institution
in North Carolina. Israel
granted Pollard citizenship in 1995 but publicly denied that he was an
Israeli spy until 1998.