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Arash
May 2, 2005
FBI questions ex-Mossad official in AIPAC probe
FBI agents questioned former Mossad senior official Uzi Arad, he said Monday, as part of
the ongoing investigation into whether classified U.S. material about Iran was improperly
passed on to Israel.
Arad said that during a recent trip to the U.S. he was asked about his connections to
Defense Department analyst Lawrence (Larry) Franklin
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Franklin), who is suspected of passing information on
Iran to AIPAC, the main pro-Israel lobbying organization in the United States.
The FBI "wanted to clear up a number of questions. I was traveling through the U.S. and I
agreed to come and talk to them", Arad told Israel TV.
Uzi Arad said the FBI questioned him because his name had come up three times in
connection with Larry Franklin, who works on issues involving Iran.
Both Israel and AIPAC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIPAC) have denied any wrongdoing, and
Franklin has not commented on the reports.
Arad said he asked the FBI agents whether charges would be brought against Larry Franklin
and was told only that "he has legal troubles".
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Douglas Feith & Larry Franklin
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Uzi Arad is Director of the Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS) and Professor of
Government at the Lauder School of Government, Strategy and Diplomacy at Herzliya’s
Interdisciplinary Center. Uzi Arad has a Ph.D. in International Relations from Princeton
University. He served in the Mossad for 25 years holding senior positions in Israel and
abroad, his last position being Director of Intelligence, after which he was appointed the
Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
email: ar...@idc.ac.il
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