The Spy Who Betrayed America — Jonathan Pollard | Cold War Files

Описание: This episode examines one of the most damaging insider-espionage cases of the Cold War carried out on behalf of a U.S. ally. Jonathan Jay Pollard, a civilian intelligence analyst with access to the U.S. Navy’s most sensitive surveillance systems, removed and transmitted vast quantities of classified material between 1984 and 1985.
Using declassified assessments, congressional reports, and documented intelligence-community findings, this documentary reconstructs how the breach occurred, what was compromised, and how the case reshaped American security procedures.

Covered in this documentary:
• OSIS, SOSUS, and U.S. Navy submarine-tracking intelligence
• KH-11 satellite tasking schedules and collection methods
• ELINT operational guides and signals-intelligence procedures
• Middle Eastern air-defense assessments
• Damage evaluations from the Department of Defense
• Counterintelligence findings that led to Pollard’s arrest
• Long-term reforms across U.S. military and intelligence agencies

This is a fact-based historical investigation relying exclusively on archival material, official reports, and verifiable Cold War records.

All images in this documentary come from public-domain archives, government sources, or AI-generated reconstructions created exclusively to illustrate documented events.

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