The Nation - News from July 10, 1988

Former Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard, serving time for passing U.S. secrets to Israeli agents, started a hunger strike to protest being moved and having his mail privileges cut off, his father said in South Bend, Ind. “This is very serious. My son is in physical and mental isolation,” Dr. Morris Pollard, a cancer researcher and professor at the University of Notre Dame, said. “Jonathan called his sister . . . and was very upset. He said he has reached a point where he doesn’t know what else to do.” Pollard, 32, was sentenced to life without parole. Until last month he was in the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo. He was moved to the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, Ill. Since then, Navy officials have not delivered letters he has written, his father said.