Cold War Spy Scandal Revived by Middle East Talks
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April 2 (Bloomberg) -- The effort to keep Middle East peacetalks alive has pushed the U.S. to consider doing what once wasunthinkable: freeing convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.
Three decades before Edward Snowden shocked the world byexposing U.S. electronic spying tactics, a 31-year-old navalintelligence analyst based in Washington stunned the Americangovernment when he was discovered passing thousands of pages ofclassified documents to Israel.