Israhell promotes spy to rank of general after Donnie-boy's pardon

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Israeli spy, pardoned by Trump after decades evading extradition for US trial, becomes a general in belated promotion
https://www.rt.com/news/533638-pardoned-isreali-spy-general/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

Aviem Sella, who the US tried for decades to extradite from Israel to stand trial on espionage charges, has been given a symbolic promotion in rank. It was announced days after a meeting between the leaders of the two nations.

Sella, 75, was the focus of a big scandal that put a rift between the US and its Middle-Eastern ally back in the 1980s. The Israel Air Force fighter pilot was taking a sabbatical in the US and, while there, had recruited US Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard. Pollard abused his access to American secrets to sell them to the Israelis. He was ultimately caught and sent to jail.

Sella's role as Pollard's handler was not disclosed to the US officers investigating Pollard's activities and, unlike other Israeli officials involved in the case, he was not granted immunity from prosecution by the US. He instead went back to Israel, which then refused to extradite him on a US request.

The evasion of justice remained a thorn in the side of bilateral relations throughout the 1980s. It peaked in 1987, when Israel announced Sella's promotion to the rank of Brigadier General and appointment as commander of the Tel Nof Airbase, just as a US court indicted him on three counts of espionage. The US Congress even threatened to withhold US military aid to Israel in retaliation.

Amid the scandal, Sella resigned his command of the base, while his promotion in military rank never materialized. He left active duty with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in 1993, still as a colonel. The belated promotion, which was announced by Israeli officials on Wednesday, accords him the rank that he was supposed to get over three decades ago.

The IDF said that Sella would get the honor in a ceremony attended by Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi at army headquarters in Tel Aviv. It was recommended by the commander of the Israeli Air Force, Amikam Norkin, and approved by Defense Minister Benny Gantz.

US justice formally remained interested in Sella's extradition and trial until January, when President Donald Trump during his last hours in office pardoned the Israeli officer, among dozens of others.

Sella's promotion was announced days after Naftali Bennett visited the US for his first meeting with President Joe Biden in his new capacity as Israeli prime minister. The summit reportedly was meant to mend a rift which had grown between the US and Israel in the months between Biden's inauguration and the June resignation of Bennett's predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu.

According to the New York Times, Netanyahu's intelligence services snubbed their American counterparts on several occasions when conducting operations against Iran. It's anyone's guess how to interpret the honor bestowed on Sella, considering his role in Israeli spying on the US, and the connection to Trump.

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Israeli spy, pardoned by Trump after decades evading extradition for US trial, becomes a general in belated promotion
https://www.rt.com/news/533638-pardoned-isreali-spy-general/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

Aviem Sella, who the US tried for decades to extradite from Israel to stand trial on espionage charges, has been given a symbolic promotion in rank.
It was announced days after a meeting between the leaders of the two nations.

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breitbart published on Jan 19 2021 all `Names Of The Pardoned by Trump' :

Donald Trump Announces Pardons and
Commutations for 143 People in Last Hours of
Presidency
published:  2021-01-20 06:48:59+00:00, modified: 2021-01-20 07:34:25+00:00
by CHARLIE SPIERING  | 19 Jan 2021 |  5,626
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/19/donald-trump-pardons-americans-last-hours-presidency/

archive.org has many captures of this page, but none of these include the Disqus comments.
The Island archives has only one capture, but it has all the comments :

Donald Trump Announces Pardons and
Commutations for 143 People in Last
Hours of Presidency
by CHARLIE SPIERING | 19 Jan 2021 | 4,468
Saved from https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/19/donald-trump-pardons-americans-last-hours-presidency/
20 Jan 2021 13:26:33 UTC
https://archive.is/fO6ah 

which is a fairly early snapshot,  which the BB/Disqus moderators did not touch upon yet.
and here's a comment which is still inside the  archive.is snapshot, but was removed by BB :

Daisy > TexBelle • 34 minutes ago • edited
From the article:

"Aviem Sella – President Trump granted a full pardon to Aviem
Sella. Mr. Sella is an Israeli citizen who was indicted in 1986
for espionage in relation to the Jonathan Pollard case."

What the article doesn't mention is that Aviem Sella actually
helped recruit Jonathan Pollard, who turned out to be one of the
worst spies in American history, whose crimes are so egregious
many are still classified.

Among other things, Pollard was able to steal over 10,000
top-secret documents and gave this stolen material to his
superiors—Mossad operatives working out of the Israeli Embassy
in Washington, D.C. The Israeli govt. then sold these documents
to our enemy, Communist Red China.

As a result, tens of millions of American lives were instantly
placed in jeopardy, because through this material, Red China had
access to the launch codes of America's nuclear-armed missiles
and was able to track the location of every single one of this
nation's underwater submarines in the seas all over the globe.

After discovering the full extent of Pollard and Israel's
monstrous crime, the U.S. Defence Department was reportedly
forced to spend over 20 billion dollars changing and modifying
defence systems to mitigate the damage.

In addition, one longtime CIA officer who worked as a station
chief in the Middle East said he understood that "certain
elements in the Israeli military had used Pollard's material "to
trade for people they wanted to get out," including Jewish
scientists.

In an article titled "The Traitor: The case against Jonathan
Pollard" in The New Yorker in1999, Seymour Hersh also revealed
that the names of American agents in the Soviet Union, harvested
by Pollard, had also been turned over to the Soviets. Many of
these agents had then "disappeared."

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There are lots of sources on this, here are a few:
> The New Yorker - 'The Traitor'.
> Haaretz: 'Trump Pardons Israeli Colonel Who Helped Recruit Spy
  Jonathan Pollard'.
> American Freedom Party - 'Convicted Israeli Spy Jonathan
  Pollard Free After 30 Years'.
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Currently there's rumors, partially backed by recorded evidence. that
Trump started a operation called devolution, which was started
in June 2020 :

  "In July of 2016, Barack Obama signed the still classified Presidential
   Policy Directive 40 (PPD-40). In accordance with PPD-40, each
   department was to maintain continuity programs. "Agencies were ordered
   to have not just a line of succession but also one of "devolution," a
   duplicate chain of individuals secreted outside Washington available in
   a catastrophic emergency. Devolution involves "procedures to transfer
   statutory authority and responsibilities" to this secondary designated
   staff to sustain essential functions."
   Even though every federal government agency and department has COG and
   COOP plans, the Devolution that President Trump initiated was done
   through the Military and the Department of Defense for one primary
   reason."
   -- Devolution - Part 3, Continuity Of Government p.2 (p.20 in pdf)
   https://rmstock.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/devolution-by-patel-patriot-2021.pdf

My guess is that Trump recruited several individuals from his list of
`Names Of The Pardoned by Trump', of which Aviem Sella could be one.