@@ Guilty plea planned in secrets case @@
Arash
September 30, 2005
Guilty Plea Planned in Secrets Case
By Jerry Markon
A Defense Department analyst charged with passing government secrets to two employees
of an influential Israeli lobbying group plans to plead guilty at a hearing next
week, court officials announced yesterday.
Lawrence A. Franklin, 58, will enter his plea in U.S. District Court in Alexandria,
Virginia on Wednesday, the court said. Sources familiar with the case said Franklin
is expected to plead guilty to conspiracy and possibly to other counts. He also is
planning to resume his cooperation with prosecutors, they said.
Any scheduled plea can collapse, even at the last minute, though the sources said
they do not expect that to happen. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity
because the plea agreement is not finalized.
If Larry Franklin enters a plea, it will be a major development in a long-running
investigation into whether classified U.S. information was provided to the Israeli
government. The two employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or
AIPAC, have also been charged, and Larry Franklin could be a key witness against
them. The two AIPAC employees were fired after their alleged contact with Larry
Franklin.
Federal prosecutors declined to comment yesterday. Franklin's attorney, Plato
Cacheris, said Larry Franklin will appear in court Wednesday but declined to
elaborate. "There will be some disposition'', said Cacheris, who added that "the
papers are not signed yet''.
The investigation has touched political and diplomatic hot buttons since it was
publicly disclosed last year. Prosecutors say Larry Franklin and the two former AIPAC
employees, Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman, conspired to obtain and illegally pass
on classified information to foreign officials and reporters over a five-year period.
Although no foreign government has been publicly named, U.S. government sources have
identified Israel as the country at the center of the probe. The case has complicated
relations between the United States and Israel, which are close allies, and angered
many supporters of AIPAC, which is considered one of Washington's most influential
lobbying organizations.
An anti-Iran specialist, Larry Franklin briefly cooperated with investigators in the
summer of 2004 but has since stopped, his attorney has said. Larry Franklin was first
charged in May with disclosing classified information related to potential attacks on
U.S. forces in Iraq. A subsequent indictment last month expanded the allegations to
say that Larry Franklin revealed national defense information to Steven Rosen and
Keith Weissman.
Larry Franklin is now charged in Alexandria with five counts that include conspiracy
to communicate national defense information to persons not entitled to receive it and
conspiracy to communicate classified information to an agent of a foreign government.
He was also charged in federal court in West Virginia in May with keeping classified
documents at his home. That case was transferred to U.S. District Court in Alexandria
this week.
Steven Rosen, 63, of Silver Spring, Maryland, is charged with two counts related to
unlawful disclosure of national defense information obtained from Franklin and other
unidentified government officials since 1999 on topics including Iran, Saudi Arabia
and al-Qaeda. Steven Rosen was AIPAC's director of foreign policy issues and was
instrumental in making AIPAC a formidable political force.
Keith Weissman, 53, of Bethesda, Maryland faces one count of conspiracy to illegally
communicate national defense information.
Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman have pleaded not guilty, and their attorneys have
strongly denied the charges. John Nassikas, an attorney for Keith Weissman, yesterday
called Franklin's apparent decision to plead guilty "not surprising, and it does not
affect Weissman's desire to go to trial and clear his name''. An attorney for Steven
Rosen declined to comment.
The case, scheduled for trial January 3, is expected to turn in part on whether the
defendants were illegally disclosing government secrets or were merely passing along
the type of policy-related information that is frequently discussed in official
Washington.
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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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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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