@@ Israeli spy case is much bigger than AIPAC @@
Arash
August 9, 2005
Bigger Than AIPAC
By Robert Dreyfuss
Important new details of the U.S.-Israeli espionage case involving Larry Franklin, the
Pentagon spy, two officials of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, and an
intelligence official at the Embassy of Israel emerged last week.
Two AIPAC officials—who have left the organization—were indicted along with Larry Franklin
on charges of "communicating national defense information to persons not entitled to
receive it", In plain English, if not legal-speak, that means spying.
But as the full text of the indictment makes clear, the conspiracy involved not just Larry
Franklin and the AIPAC officials, [JEW] Steve Rosen and [JEW] Keith Weissman, but at least
several other Pentagon officials who played intermediary roles, at least two other Israeli
officials, and one official at a "Washington, D.C. think tank".
It's an old-fashioned spy story involving the passing of secret documents, hush-hush
meetings and outright espionage, along with good-old-boy networking.
But the network tied to the "Franklin case"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Franklin) — which ought to be called the "AIPAC case",
since it was AIPAC that was really under investigation by the FBI—provides an important
window into a shadowy world. It is clear that by probing the details of the case, the FBI
has got hold of a dangerous loose end of much larger story.
By pulling on that string hard enough, the FBI and the Justice Department might just
unravel that larger story, which is beginning to look more and more like it involves the
same nexus of Pentagon civilians, White House functionaries, and American Enterprise
Institute officials who thumped the drums for war in Iraq in 2001-2003 and who are now
trying to whip up an anti-Iranian frenzy as well.
Needless to say, all of this got short shrift from the mainstream media when it was
revealed last week.
The basic facts of the case have been known for a while. Lawrence Anthony Franklin, a
Department of Defense official, was caught red-handed giving highly classified papers to
two officials, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, of AIPAC—in part, concerning U.S. policy
toward Iran. But from the carefully worded indictment, it is clear that a lot more may
have been going on. All in all, along with revealing tantalizing new information, the
indictment raises more questions than it answers. To wit:
First, the indictment says that from "about April 1999 and continuing until on or about
August 27, 2004" Franklin, Rosen and Weissman "did unlawfully, knowingly and willfully
conspire" in criminal activity against the United States. So far, no one has explained
what triggered an investigation that began more than six years ago. But it reveals how
long the three indicted conspirators and "others, known and unknown to the Grand Jury",
engaged in such criminal activity. In any case, what appeared at first to be a brief
dalliance between Franklin and the two AIPAC officials now—according to the latest
indictment, at least—spans more than five years and involves at least several other
individuals, at least some of whom are known to the investigation. What triggered the
investigation in 1999, and how much information has FBI surveillance, wiretaps and other
investigative efforts collected?
Second, the indictment makes it absolutely clear that the investigation was aimed at
AIPAC, not at Franklin. The document charges that Rosen and Weissman met repeatedly with
officials from a foreign government (Israel, though not named in the indictment) beginning
in 1999, to provide them with classified information. In other words, the FBI was looking
into the Israel lobby, not Franklin and the Defense Department, at the start, and Franklin
was simply caught up in the net when he made contact with the AIPACers. Rosen and Weissman
were observed making illicit contact with several other U.S. officials between 1999 and
2004, although those officials are left unnamed (and unindicted). Might there be more to
come? Who are these officials, cited merely as United States Government Official 1, USGO
2, etc.?
Third, Franklin was introduced to Rosen-Weissman when the two AIPACers "called a
Department of Defense employee (DOD employee A) at the Pentagon and asked for the name of
someone in OSD ISA [Office of the Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs]
with an expertise on Iran" and got Franklin's name.
Who was "DOD employee A"?
Was it [JEW] Douglas Feith (http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/feith/feith.php), the
undersecretary for policy?
[JEW] Harold Rhode (http://www.sw-asia.com/People/Bio954.htm), the ghost-like neocon
official who helped Douglas Feith assemble the secretive Office of Special Plans, where
Larry Franklin worked?
The indictment doesn't say. But this reporter observed Larry Franklin, Harold Rhode and
[JEW] Michael Rubin (http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/rubin/rubin.php), a former AEI
official who served in the Pentagon during this period and then returned to AEI
(http://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/aei.php), sitting together side by side, often in the
front row, at American Enterprise Institute meetings during 2002-2003.
Later in the indictment, we learn that Larry Franklin, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman
hobnobbed with "DOD employee B", too.
Fourth, Rosen and Weissman told Franklin that they would try to get him a job at the White
House, on the National Security Council staff. Who did they talk to at the White House, if
they followed through? What happened?
Fifth, the charging document refers to "Foreign Official 1", also known as FO-1, obviously
referring to an Israeli embassy official or an Israeli intelligence officer. It also
refers later to FO-2, FO-3, etc., meaning that other Israeli officials were involved as
well. How many Israeli officials are implicated in this, and who are they?
Sixth, was AEI itself involved? The indictment says that "on or about March 13, 2003,
Rosen disclosed to a senior fellow at a Washington, D.C., think tank the information
relating to the classified draft internal policy document" about Iran. The indictment says
that the think tank official agreed "to follow up and see what he could do." Which think
tank, and who was involved?
The indictment is rich with other detail, including specific instances in which the
indicted parties lied to the FBI about their activities. It describes how Franklin
eventually set up a regular liaison with an Israeli official ("FO-3") and met him in
Virginia "and elsewhere" to communicate U.S. secrets.
It is an important story, arguably one that has greater implications for national security
than the scandal involving the churlish outing of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Plame).
So far, at least, the media frenzy attending to the Plame affair
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair) is matched by nearly total silence about the
Franklin-AIPAC affair? Can it be true that reporters are more courageous about pursuing a
story that involves the White House than they are about plunging into a scandal that
involves Israel, our Number one Middle East ally?
* Robert Dreyfuss is a freelance writer based in Alexandria, Virginia, who specializes in
politics and national security issues. He is a contributing editor at The Nation, a
contributing writer at Mother Jones, a senior correspondent for The American Prospect, and
a frequent contributor to Rolling Stone. His book, "Devil's Game: How the United States
Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam", will be published in the fall.
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Lawrence "Larry" Anthony Franklin
Part time lecturer of modern World
Department of History
Shepherd College
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Office: White Hall, room 316
email: lfrankli AT shepherd.edu
Tel: 1-304-876-5329
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Paul McNulty, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, gestures during a press
conference Thursday, August 4, 2005 in Alexandria, Virgina. Two employees of Israeli lobby
were indicted Thursday on charges they conspired to obtain and disclose classified U.S.
defense information. An indictment unsealed named Steven Rosen, formerly the director of
foreign policy issues for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and Keith
Weissman, the organization's former senior Iran analyst.
Read the indictment against Larry Franklin
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Pentagon Analyst Accused of Creating Web of Deception
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Jews promised Larry Franklin promotion at National Security Council
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JEWPAC the unstoppable
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Thank you, Steve Rosen
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Larry Franklin wanted to sway policy, not just spill intel
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Why Did Jew Douglas Feith Resign?
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What Douglas Feith knew, and when he knew it
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All Roads Lead to Douglas Feith
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U.S. Justice Deptartment to indict two AIPAC staffers under U.S. Espionage Act
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Larry Franklin admits spying for Israel
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Israel can do no wrong
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Anti-Iran analyst faces new charges
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To Sayan trolls: JEWPAC opens today - Pigs at the trough
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What's 'American' About the American Israel Public Affairs Committee?
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AIPAC indictments imminent over spy case
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FBI after more jew-spies
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George Galloway hounded by AIPAC cell within U.S. congress
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When Larry met Rabbi
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Israeli apologists are silent on spy scandal
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More charges to come in jew-spy-ring
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Franklin's arrest is just the tip of the iceberg
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Israeli spy in Pentagon arrested
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Jew agents in control of Pentagon
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Jew spy ring busted!
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FBI questions Mossad over Iran spy case
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Two AIPAC terrorists ousted
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Jews new anti-Iran propaganda: ATOMIC IRAN
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Israeli spy returns to work for Pentagon?
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Jews, Anti-Iran terrorists, & Congressman Weldon
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Jonah Goldberg vs. Juan Cole
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Larry Franklin & Israelis in northern Iraq
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Planners of strategy to use Zionist-Azaris to destabilize Iran
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AIPAC spies weave a tangled web
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New Hampshire reactor is going "Chernobyl"
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U.S. is arming anti-Iran terrorists
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Jail the Jewish Cabal
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Israeli spy investigation suppressed
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Spy case reveals Jews are running U.S. policy on Iran
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Nigger to address AIPAC
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Israeli spy rejects plea deal
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The State Department's extreme makeover
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Neocons Blast Bush's Inaction On 'Spy' Affair
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Larry Franklin fires lawyer
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Israel punished CBS by giving it false documents on Bush
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Israeli 'Mordechai Vanunu': End Israeli nukes first
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Poll: Jews are spies
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Israel's beloved MEK terrorist 'Alireza Jafarzadeh'
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Jews: Everyone telling truth is an Anti-Semite
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Be scared of Jew godfather Norman Podhoretz, not Osama
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AIPAC spy affair concerns Iran more than Israel
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AIPAC spy case involves intelligence on Iran
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Israeli military attache met with Larry Franklin
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Pentagon: Jews own America
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How AIPAC controls America
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Inside the Israel espionage investigation
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Jew spin on Israeli spy affair
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Ugly picture: SISMI, Mossad, CIA, MI6
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U.S. is just a province of Israel
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Headquarter of Zionist-Azaris
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I can just hear the Presidential conversation. "Did I say Iraq backed al-Qaeda?" he asks
with a boyish grin. "Oh, heck, I meant Iran. I always get those two mixed up".
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Axis Of Spies
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Poor Jew-lover 'Larry Franklin'
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Nest of Spies
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Steven Rosen, Keith Weissman - AIPAC terrorists
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Behind the Israeli mole affair
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Larry Franklin hates Iran passionately
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Report on Iran Key to spying inquiry
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Jews spy on Jews on Iran, interesting!
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Mossad agent & fabricator
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'Michael Ledeen' is a dangerous animal
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Jews: antagonize Iran so they get frustrated
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Who is the head of Azari-Skinheads?
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A chat with the leader of azari-skinheads
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Jew "Brenda Shaffer" leader of Zionist-azaris
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Things are getting ugly for dirty Jews & Azari-Skinheads
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Headquarter of Azari-Skinheads target of spy probe
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Leader of Azari-Skinheads exposed
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CIA & Mosad planners give support to Azari-Skinheads
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After setting-up Azari-Skinheads, Brenda Shaffer is now working on Nukes
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Know thy enemy
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What are Iran's domestic priorities?
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Lawmakers met with Iranian exile scrutinized over intelligence
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US-UK & Paki Islamic terror networks
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The American hand in Iran
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AIPAC can place you by the elbow of the President
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Who's Behind the Coming War With Iran?
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Jew lobbyists charged with classified leaks
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Israelis bragged about Pentagon spy Larry Franklin
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Israeli spy ring update - Israeli art students & movers story
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The Plame/AIPAC-gate Connection
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Neocon History: How Jews took over America
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Iran Policy Committee: Pentagon Mouthpiece, Israeli Ally, MEK Supporter
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Jew agent Mohammad Parvin
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ZioNazis really love & care for Iranians!
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Resistance in the Middle East is Not a “Discontinuous Event”
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Michael Rubin - Learn about Jews who care about Iran!
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Info on Michael Rubin
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U.S. Expands Aid to Iran's Democracy Advocates Abroad
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Planners of strategy to use Zionist-Azaris to destabilize Iran
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Network of Middle East "experts"
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Jews plot against Iran
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NPR is another Jew-FOX
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The emergence of a new Axis: Los Angeles-Tel Aviv-Tehran
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New Front Sets Sights On Iran
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The coalition of Iran-haters
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JINSA - How JEW occupied America
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