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Anne Henderson Pollard (born 1960 in White Meadow Lake, New Jersey) is the first wife of Jonathan Pollard. She was born to an affluent family; her father, Bernard Henderson, was a public relations executive of Scottish-Irish Protestant background and former press secretary for the Teamsters union, while her mother, Elaine Henderson, came from a New York Jewish family and raised Anne and her siblings Jewish. Her parents divorced in the late 1970s when she was 19, after which she relocated to Washington, D.C., to live with her father. Described as a model child with straight A's in high school, she attended the University of Maryland in the evenings (no degree verified). After high school, she worked as a secretary before beginning a public relations career at the National Rifle Association. She later became a public relations consultant and, post-prison in 1999, served as director of sales and promotions for a Jewish media organization in Los Angeles.
She met Jonathan Pollard in 1981 and married him on August 9, 1985, in Venice, Italy. Her role in the espionage case was peripheral; she assisted post-arrest by attempting to hide documents and meeting handler Aviem Sella. In 1986, she pleaded guilty to conspiracy and illegal possession of classified documents. She was sentenced in March 1987 to two concurrent five-year terms for conspiring to receive and possessing classified documents but was paroled after 3.5 years due to severe health issues, including gastrointestinal disorders, biliary dyskenesia, ulcers, and significant weight loss. She and Jonathan divorced after her release. In interviews, she expressed no regrets, stating she fulfilled moral obligations as a Jew. Some criticized her as a willing partner, while her family campaigned to portray her as punished for loyalty, alleging the government used her as leverage and reneged on the plea deal.
Post-release, she emigrated to Israel, living in Tel Aviv on a government stipend plus donations; she resided in Los Angeles in 1999 and in Israel as of 2015.