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LAWRENCE FRANKLIN News:
20080605
Dick
Cheney -  Stephen
A Cambone - Larry
Franklin - Noteworthy
-  US
-  Italy
- Iraq
-  Iran
-  Military
-  Politics
-  Investigation
- "Did
Iranian agents dupe Pentagon officials?" ... "Defense
Department counterintelligence investigators suspected that Iranian exiles
who provided dubious intelligence on Iraq and Iran to a small group of
Pentagon officials might have "been used as agents of a foreign intelligence
service ... to reach into and influence the highest levels of the [United
States] U.S. government," a Senate Intelligence Committee report said Thursday."
... "A top aide to [Republican President Bush's] then-secretary of defense
Donald H. Rumsfeld, however, shut down the 2003 investigation into the
Pentagon officials' activities after only a month, and the Defense Department's
top brass never followed up on the investigators' recommendation for a
more thorough investigation, the Senate report said." ... "The revelation
raises questions about whether Iran may have used a small cabal of officials
in the Pentagon and in [Republican] Vice President Dick Cheney's office
to feed bogus intelligence on Iraq and Iran to senior policymakers in the
[Republican President] Bush administration who were eager to oust the Iraqi
dictator." ... "Iran, which was a mortal enemy of Iraqi dictator Saddam
Hussein and fought a bloody eight-year war with Iraq during his reign,
has been the primary beneficiary of U.S. policy in Iraq, where Iranian-backed
groups now run much of the government and the security forces." ... "The
aborted counterintelligence investigation probed some Pentagon officials'
contacts with Iranian exile Manucher Ghorbanifar, whom the CIA [Central
Intelligence Agency] had labeled a "fabricator" in 1984. Those contacts
were brokered by an American civilian, Michael Ledeen, a former Pentagon
and National Security Council consultant and a leading advocate of invading
Iraq and overthrowing Iran's Islamic regime." ... "Stephen Cambone, then
the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, shut down the counterintelligence
investigation after only a month, the Senate report said." ... "The Senate
committee also found that Pentagon officials concealed the contacts with
Ghorbanifar from the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the State
Department. Pentagon officials also provided Senate investigators with
an inaccurate account of events and, with support from two unnamed officials
in Cheney's office, continued meeting with Ghorbanifar after contact with
him was officially ordered to stop." ... "The first meetings with Ghorbanifar,
which were disclosed in August 2003 by the Long Island, N.Y. [New York],
newspaper Newsday, took place in Rome [Italy's capital] in December 2001.
They were attended by two Pentagon Iran experts, Harold Rhode and Larry
Franklin; by an Italian military intelligence official, and by Ledeen."
-By John
Walcott -McClatchyDC.com
20060120
US
- Israel
- Lawrence
A Franklin - Douglas
Feith - Classified
- Military
-  Intelligence
- "Pentagon
Analyst Gets 12 Years for Disclosing Data." ... "A
federal judge sentenced a former Defense Department analyst, Lawrence A.
Franklin, to more than 12 years in prison today after Mr. Franklin admitted
passing classified military information to two pro-Israel lobbyists and
an Israeli diplomat." ... "The charges against Mr. Franklin and the two
lobbyists are offenses under the Espionage Act, but none of the men have
been accused of spying." ... "The lobbyists, Steven J. Rosen and Keith
Weissman, were senior staff members of the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee, or Aipac, a pro-Israel lobbying organization with close relationships
to officials in the [Republican President] Bush administration." ... "Mr.
Rosen and Mr. Weissman were charged in an indictment in August 2005 with
conspiring to gather and disclose classified national security information
to journalists and an unnamed foreign power that government officials identified
as Israel." ... "As Aipac's director of foreign policy issues, Mr. Rosen
was a well-known figure in Washington who helped the organization define
its lobbying agenda on the Middle East and forged important relationships
with powerful conservatives in the Bush administration." ... "Mr. Franklin
worked at the Pentagon for a time under Douglas Feith, a former undersecretary
at the agency." -By David Johnston
-NYTimes
20050504
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 Secrets
- "Pentagon
analyst charged with disclosing secrets." ... "A
Defense Department analyst was arrested on Wednesday on charges of disclosing
top-secret information on potential attacks on American forces in Iraq
to two employees of a pro-Israel lobbying group." ... "Lawrence Franklin
surrendered to the FBI and faces charges of disclosing classified national
defense information in 2003 to two individuals who sources said worked
at the time at the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee
[AIPAC]." (1,
2)
-Reuters
20040930
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Larry
Franklin - Douglas
Feith - Criminal
Investigation - US
- Israel
- Italy
- Iran
- Military
- Intelligence
-
 History
- "Iran-Contra
II? Fresh scrutiny on a rogue Pentagon operation."
... "On Friday evening, CBS News reported that the FBI [Federal Bureau
of Investigation ] is investigating a suspected mole in the Department
of Defense who allegedly passed to Israel, via a pro-Israeli lobbying organization
[AIPAC], classified American intelligence about Iran. The focus of the
investigation, according to [United States] U.S. government officials,
is Larry Franklin, a veteran Defense Intelligence Agency Iran analyst now
working in the office of the Pentagon's number three civilian official,
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith." ... "The investigation
of Franklin is now shining a bright light on a shadowy struggle within
the [Republican President] Bush administration over the direction of U.S.
policy toward Iran. In particular, the FBI is looking with renewed interest
at an unauthorized back-channel between Iranian dissidents and advisers
in Feith's office, which more-senior administration officials first tried
in vain to shut down and then later attempted to cover up." ... "Franklin,
along with another colleague from Feith's office, a polyglot Middle East
expert named Harold Rhode, were the two officials involved in the back-channel,
which involved on-going meetings and contacts with Iranian arms dealer
Manucher Ghorbanifar and other Iranian exiles, dissidents and government
officials. Ghorbanifar is a storied figure who played a key role in embroiling
the Reagan administration in the Iran-Contra affair. The meetings were
both a conduit for intelligence about Iran and Iraq and part of a bitter
administration power-struggle pitting officials at [the Department of Defense]
DoD who have been pushing for a hard-line policy of "regime change" in
Iran, against other officials at the State Department and the CIA [Central
Intelligence Agency] who have been counseling a more cautious approach."
... "Reports of two of these meetings first surfaced a year ago in Newsday,
and have since been the subject of an ongoing investigation by the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence. Whether or how the meetings are connected
to the alleged espionage remains unknown. But the FBI is now closely scrutinizing
them." ... "While the FBI is looking at the meetings as part of its criminal
investigation, to congressional investigators the Ghorbanifar back-channel
typifies the out-of-control bureaucratic turf wars which have characterized
and often hobbled Bush administration policy-making. And an investigation
by The Washington Monthly -- including a rare interview with Ghorbanifar
-- adds weight to those concerns. The meetings turn out to have been far
more extensive and much less under White House control than originally
reported. One of the meetings, which Pentagon officials have long characterized
as merely a "chance encounter" seems in fact to have been planned long
in advance by Rhode and Ghorbanifar. Another has never been reported in
the American press. The administration's reluctance to disclose these details
seems clear: the DoD-Ghorbanifar meetings suggest the possibility that
a rogue faction at the Pentagon was trying to work outside normal US foreign
policy channels to advance a "regime change" agenda not approved by the
president's foreign policy principals or even the president himself." ...
"The Italian Job" ... "The first meeting occurred in Rome [Italy's
capital] in December, 2001. It included Franklin, Rhode, and another American,
the neoconservative writer and operative Michael Ledeen, who organized
the meeting. (According to UPI, Ledeen was then working for Feith as a
consultant.) Also in attendance was Ghorbanifar and a number of other Iranians.
One of the Iranians, according to two sources familiar with the meeting,
was a former senior member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard who claimed
to have information about dissident ranks within the Iranian security services.
The Washington Monthly has also learned from U.S. government sources
that Nicolo Pollari, the head of Italy's military intelligence agency,
SISMI, attended the meetings, as did the Italian Minister of Defense Antonio
Martino, who is well-known in neoconservative circles in Washington." ...
"Alarm bells about the December 2001 meeting began going off in U.S. government
channels only days after it occurred." ... "Since the late 1980s Ghorbanifar
has been the subject of two CIA "burn notices." The Agency believes Ghorbanifar
is a serial "fabricator" and forbids its officers from having anything
to do with him." -By Joshua
Micah Marshall, Laura Rozen,
and Paul Glastris with contributions by Claudio Lavanga
-WashingtonMonthly.com
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