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June 13, 2005
Pentagon Analyst Indicted in Info Leak
By Mark Sherman
Washington -- A Pentagon analyst has been indicted on charges that he leaked classified
military information to employees of a pro-Israel lobbying organization and an Israeli
official, federal authorities said Monday.
The six-count indictment charges that Lawrence A. Franklin
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Franklin) conspired to disclose national defense and
classified information to people not entitled to receive it, including information about
potential attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq.
None of the charges involves espionage. An FBI agent's affidavit that accompanied the
criminal complaint against Franklin last month did not suggest that the disclosure
endangered U.S. troops, but it said intelligence sources could have been compromised.
Franklin, a 58-year-old Air Force Reserve colonel who once worked for the Pentagon's No. 3
official, pleaded innocent to all counts Monday at a hearing in federal court in
Alexandria, Virginia.
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III set a Sept. 6 trial.
The FBI's long-running investigation has focused on whether Franklin, of Kearneysville,
West Virginia, passed classified U.S. material on Iran to the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aipac), the influential main Israeli
lobbying organization in Washington, and whether that group in turn passed it on to
Israel. Both AIPAC and Israel deny any wrongdoing.
The investigation has included use of sophisticated electronic surveillance techniques,
law enforcement officials have said, although they have declined to say how Franklin first
came to their attention.
People familiar with the investigation have said AIPAC no longer is a target. But the
indictment identifies two unindicted co-conspirators who were employees of a Washington
lobbying organization.
Law enforcement officials have previously identified them as Steve Rosen
(http://www.jta.org/storage/articleimages/15423.jpg), who was AIPAC's director of
research, and Keith Weissman
(http://www.richardsilverstein.com/photos/uncategorized/weissman.jpg), who was its deputy
director of foreign policy issues. Neither still works for the group. The FBI has
interviewed both, but neither has been charged.
The indictment includes a description of Larry Franklin's luncheon meeting in June 2003
that law enforcement officials previously said was attended by Steve Rosen and Keith
Weissman.
Abbe Lowell, Steve Rosen's lawyer, was at the courthouse Monday. He declined to comment.
John Nassikas, Weissman's lawyer, did not immediately provide comment.
The indictment provided a few new details about Larry Franklin's alleged actions,
including that the AIPAC officials saw Franklin as a potentially valuable source of
information and cultivated him over the course of a year through meals and, on one
occasion, tickets to a Baltimore Orioles game.
Larry Franklin's motives may have included advancing his career, the indictment said.
Franklin and Steve Rosen at one point discussed Franklin's chances of getting a job on the
staff of the National Security Council.
Rosen told him such a job would put Franklin "by the elbow of the president", the
indictment said.
Franklin asked Rosen "to put in a good word", the indictment said.
Larry Franklin also is alleged to have passed classified information about a Middle
Eastern country to a staff member at an embassy in Washington. While not identified in the
indictment, the foreign official is Israeli and the country at issue is Iran, a federal
law enforcement official said on condition of anonymity because the investigation is
continuing.
The indictment was handed up May 26 but not unsealed until Monday.
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Lawrence (larry) 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
JEWPAC the unstoppable
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a64eed2014e8f0b6?hl=en
Thank you, Steve Rosen
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/22a1a93f7d2e3d16?hl=en
Larry Franklin wanted to sway policy, not just spill intel
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/dfd7b12218741c7c?hl=en
Why Did Douglas Feith Resign?
Could it have had something to do with the Larry Franklin spy scandal?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/98008e4100d94d47?hl=en
U.S. Justice Deptartment to indict two AIPAC staffers under U.S. Espionage Act
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a6bcd638257898d0?hl=en
Franklin admits he disclosed classified information in AIPAC affair
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c5e27d74d55a2397?hl=en
AIPAC Holds National Meeting Amid Spy Scandal Investigation
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/da2e6463affa4d20?hl=en
Iran analyst faces new charges
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f0a2ab6296b26690?hl=en
What's 'American' About the American Israel Public Affairs Committee?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/29450cf06a957810?hl=en
F.B.I. Questions Journalists in Military Secrets Inquiry
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f01d061d38958d10?hl=en
Who Was Leaking to Whom?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7bf566c615968155?hl=en
Israel's Amen Corner silent on AIPAC-Franklin spy scandal
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/d615db5d8344072d?hl=en
More charges to come in Pentagon analyst affair?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/70f3dd5d61965aa3?hl=en
Pentagon Analyst Charged With Disclosing Military Secrets
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/6a4f42226915dc88?hl=en
Israeli spy in Pentagon arrested
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f301ecea2a77dba7?hl=en
FBI questions ex-Mossad official in AIPAC probe
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c7a9541d826c7f83?hl=en
Jew spy ring busted!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/63539a38fbce711e?hl=en
Two Senior AIPAC Employees Ousted
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/9878d41ac004fb6c?hl=en
AIPAC conference set to open today
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/4f7becfb83679837?hl=en