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MannyIsGod
08-28-2004, 02:45 AM
FBI Suspects Israel Has Mole in Pentagon -- CBS

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI (news - web sites) believes Israel has a spy at the very highest level of the Pentagon (news - web sites) who may have sought to influence U.S. policy on Iran and Iraq (news - web sites), CBS News reported on Friday.

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The Israeli embassy immediately denied the report.

"The FBI has a full-fledged espionage investigation under way and is about to ... roll up someone agents believe has been spying, not for an enemy, but for Israel, from within the office of the secretary of defense (Donald Rumsfeld)," the network reported.

CBS News said the FBI believed it had solid evidence the suspected mole supplied Israel with classified material that included secret White House deliberations on Iran.

The network described the spy as "a trusted analyst" assigned to a unit within the defense department tasked with helping develop the Pentagon's Iraq policy.

It said the analyst had ties to top Pentagon officials Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, both regarded as leading architects of the war on Iraq.

Asked about the CBS report, a spokesman for the Israeli embassy told reporters: "We categorically deny these allegations. They are completely false and outrageous."

CBS said the spy was believed to have been passing secrets to Israel through intermediaries at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a pro-Israel lobby.

"Our sources tell us that last year the suspected spy ... turned over a presidential directive on U.S. policy toward Iran while it was 'in the draft phase'," the network said.

"This put the Israelis -- according to one of our sources -- 'inside the decision-making loop' so they could 'try to influence the outcome'," CBS reported.

If this is true, I wonder how some of you will still feel about the collective blowjob this country gives Isreal.

Nbadan
08-28-2004, 04:37 AM
I think Israel has a right to defend itself from its neighbors, but...


The FBI is investigating a mid-level Pentagon official who specializes in Iranian affairs for allegedly passing classified information to Israel, and arrests in the case could come as early as next week, officials at the Pentagon and other government agencies said last night.

The name of the person under investigation was not officially released, but two sources identified him as Larry Franklin. He was described as a desk officer in the Pentagon's Near East and South Asia Bureau, one of six regional policy sections. Franklin worked at the Defense Intelligence Agency before moving to the Pentagon's policy branch three years ago and is nearing retirement, the officials said. Franklin could not be located for comment last night.

One government official familiar with the investigation said it is not yet clear whether the case will rise to the level of espionage or end up involving lesser charges such as improper disclosure or mishandling of classified information.

The investigation has been underway for some months. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and top Pentagon lawyers were informed of it some time ago, officials said. But many other senior Pentagon officials expressed surprise at the news when it was first reported last night on CBS.

Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A40004-2004Aug27?language=printer)

Nbadan
08-28-2004, 04:51 AM
Of Course, you can always find what the main stream press won't tell you here at FSP...


Winds of Change:Troubled Waters Ahead For the Neo Cons by
Wayne Madsen

The neo-con attack on Shaw was predictable considering their previous attacks on Ambassador Joe Wilson, his wife Valerie Plame, former U.S. Central Command chief General Anthony Zinni, former counter-terrorism coordinator Richard Clarke, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, CIA counter-terrorism agent Michael Scheuer (the "anonymous" author of Imperial Hubris who has recently been gagged by the Bush administration), fired FBI translator Sibel Edmonds (who likely discovered a penetration by Israeli and other intelligence assets using the false flag of the Turkish American Council and who also has been gagged by the Bush administration), and all those who took on the global domination cabal. But Shaw showed incredible moxie. When he decided to investigate Pentagon Inspector General Reports that firms tied to Perle and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz were benefiting from windfall profit contracts in Iraq, Shaw decided to go to Iraq himself to find out what was going on. When Shaw was denied entry into Iraq by U.S. military officers (yes, a top level official of the Defense Department was denied access to Iraq by U.S. military personnel!), he decided to sneak into the country disguised as a Halliburton contractor. Using the cover of Cheney's old company to get the goods on Cheney's friends' illegal activities was yet another masterful stroke of genius by Shaw. But it also earned him the wrath of the neo-cons. They soon leaked a story to the Los Angeles Times claiming that Shaw actually snuck into Iraq to ensure that Qualcomm (on whose board sat a friend of Shaw's) was awarded a lucrative cell network contract.

But nothing could be further from the truth. Shaw, who worked for Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, represented the Old Guard Republican entity that in August 2003 set up shop in the Pentagon right under the noses of Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Feith to investigate the neo-con cabal and their illegal contract deals. The entity, known as the International Armament and Technology Trade Directorate, was soon shut down as a result of neo-con pressure. Not to be deterred, Shaw continued his investigation of the neo-cons. Although the neo-cons told the Los Angeles Times that the FBI was investigating Shaw, the reverse was the case: the FBI was investigating the neo-cons, particularly Perle and Wolfowitz, for fraudulent activities involving Iraqi contracts. And in worse news for the neo-cons: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was giving the Inspector General's and Shaw's investigations a "wink and a nod" of approval.

The financial stakes for the Pentagon are high - the Iraqi CPA's Inspector General recently revealed that over $1 billion of Iraqi money was missing from the audit books on Iraqi contracts. For Shaw and the FBI, it was a matter of what they suspected for many years - that Perle, Wolfowitz, and their comrades were running entities that ensured favorable treatment for Israeli activities - whether they were business opportunities in a U.S.-occupied Arab country or protecting Israeli spies operating within the U.S. defense and intelligence establishments.

Shaw certainly must have recalled how, during the Reagan administration, an Israeli spy named Jonathan Pollard was able to steal massive amounts of sensitive U.S. intelligence over a long period of time and hand it over to his Israeli control officer, a dangerous and deadly agent provocateur named Rafael "Rafi" Eitan. That had disastrous effects on U.S. intelligence operations throughout the world because some of the documents were handed by the Israelis to the Soviets in return for letting more Soviet Jews emigrate to Israel.

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From The Wilderness (http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/081104_winds_)

Nbadan
08-28-2004, 05:09 AM
Here is more on Franklin...


For months, I have been working with my colleagues Paul Glastris and Josh Marshall on a story for the Washington Monthly about US policy towards Iran. In particular, it involves a particular series of meetings involving officials from the office of the undersecretary of defense for Policy Doug Feith and Iranian dissidents.

A source told me that some time in July, Larry Franklin called him and asked him to meet him in a coffee shop in Northern Virginia. Franklin had intelligence on hostile Iranian activities in Iraq and was extremely frustrated that he did not feel this intelligence was getting the attention and response it deserved. The intelligence included information that the Iranians had called all of their intelligence operatives who speak Arabic to southern Iraq, that it had moved their top operative for Afghanistan, a guy named Qudzi, to the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, that its operatives were targeting Iraqi state oil facilities, and that Iranian agents were infiltrating into northern Iraq to target the Israelis written about in a report by Seymour Hersh. According to my source, Franklin passed the information to the individual from AIPAC with the hope it could reach people at higher levels of the US government who would act on it. AIPAC presented the information to Elliot Abrams in the NSC. They also presented the part that involved Israelis who might be targeted to the Israelis, with the motivation to protect Israeli lives.

A couple weeks ago, my source told me, he was visited by two agents of the FBI, who were asking about Franklin. My source couldn’t tell if Franklin was being investigated for possible wrongdoing, or if the FBI was visiting him because Franklin required some sort of higher level security clearance or clearance renewal, perhaps in order to get some sort of new position or posting abroad. My source soon after ran into another official from Feith's office, the polyglot Middle East expert and Bernard Lewis protege, Harold Rhode. My source mentioned the FBI meeting and asked Rhode if Franklin was in trouble. “It’s not clear,” Rhode allegedly told my source.

War and Peace (http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/001067.html)

Nbadan
08-28-2004, 05:49 AM
The other possible suspect is another Neocon with think-tank connections named Harold Rhode...

Newsday reported the story last year and said then that a possible mossad agent named Ghorbanifar met with Harold Rhode, who is Feith's top Middle East specialist, and with Larry Franklin, a DIA analyst...


Harold Rhode is a long time pentagon employee who may well be a Likudnik Agent of Influence.Rhode is a protegee of Michal LeDeen. Through LeDeen's machinations Rhode and Larry Franlin rpresented the Office of Special Plans in a series of meetings with former SAVAK agent Manucher Ghorbanifar an Iranian who is widely considered close to and or working for MOSSAD. To make the meetings even more bizare is that any Pentagon Official would do anything that involved LeDeen and Ghorbanifar since their last joint project was the Iran Contra scandal that divided our nation.

"Ledeen introduced Ghorbanifar to a key neoconservative official, Harold Rhode, a longtime Pentagon staffer who speaks Arabic, Farsi, Turkish and Hebrew and who until recently served in Iraq as a liaison between the Defense Department and Ahmad Chalabi. Rhode and another Pentagon official, Larry Franklin, have been talking to Ghorbanifar about options for regime change in Tehran."

"June 2003: The Pentagon Office of Special Plans sends two Defense officials, Harold Rhode and Larry Franklin, to Paris where they secretly meet with Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian arms trader who had been a central figure in the Iran-Contra affair. Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute is said to have arranged the meeting, which is not authorized by the White House." Larry Franklin

Link (http://www.sw-asia.com/People/Bio954.htm)

Nbadan
08-28-2004, 06:00 AM
ahhhhhh......connections...

http://foi.missouri.edu/polinfoprop/intelligence_540x1105.gif

Anyone surprised this is breaking over the weekend?

Aggie Hoopsfan
08-28-2004, 02:44 PM
And I suppose none of the "connections" were around during Clinton's campaign.

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MannyIsGod
08-28-2004, 04:07 PM
What, none of you Israel supporters care to chime in?

AIPAC is the devil, I suggest you all read "They Dare To Speak Out"

Aggie Hoopsfan
08-28-2004, 04:40 PM
I respect Israel for what they have to deal with day in and day out over there.

When I heard this I was disappointed, and now that it's had a little time to sink in, it doesn't really surprise me at all.

Guess their spy won't be getting a pardon (the one they've been lobbying for), and this guy is gonna get nailed to the wall too.

MannyIsGod
08-28-2004, 04:54 PM
THEY ARE SPYING ON US AND INFLUENCING OUR DECISION MAKING.

What the ****, and you take it so non chalantely.

Damn, you guys get pissed over Kerry getting a bs medal or Bush and his guard service but when this country spies on us while we fucking support it to no end, and you guys are ok with it?

Mind blowing.

Aggie Hoopsfan
08-28-2004, 06:40 PM
Don't get me wrong, it pisses me off, but I'm gonna wait to see what our government does before I jump off a cliff in kind.

Nbadan
08-30-2004, 04:06 AM
Another year, another intelligence leak investigation blown by leaks to reporters....anyone else getting tired of this crap?


WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 - The Pentagon official under suspicion of turning over classified information to Israel began cooperating with federal agents several weeks ago and was preparing to lead the authorities to contacts inside the Israeli government when the case became publicly known last week, government officials said Sunday.

The disclosure of the inquiry late on Friday by CBS News revealed what had been for nearly a year a covert national security investigation conducted by the F.B.I., according to the officials, who said that news reports about the inquiry compromised important investigative steps, like the effort to follow the trail back to the Israelis.

As a result, several areas of the case remain murky, the officials said. One main uncertainty is the legal status of Lawrence A. Franklin, the lower-level Pentagon policy analyst who the authorities believe passed the Israelis a draft presidential policy directive related to Iran.

No arrest in the case is believed to be imminent, in part because prosecutors have not yet clearly established whether Mr. Franklin broke the law. But the officials said there was evidence that he turned the classified material over to officials at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobbying group. Officials of the group are thought to have then passed the information to Israeli intelligence.

N.Y. Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/30/politics/30spy.html?hp)

Where are the concerned self-titled libertarians asking what the leakers in this and the Plame case are hiding?

:wtf

Nbadan
08-30-2004, 05:48 AM
more on the DOD mole from


Looks like Rummy needs to clean house:

Pentagon hardliners pressing for regime change in Iran have held secret and unauthorized meetings in Paris with a controversial arms dealer who was a major figure in the Iran-contra scandal, according to administration officials.

At least two Pentagon officials (Harold Rhode and Larry Franklin) working for Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith have held "several" meetings with Manucher Ghorbanifar, the Iranian middleman in U.S. arms-for-hostage shipments to Iran in the mid-1980s.

The senior official and another administration source who confirmed that the meetings had taken place said that the ultimate policy objective of Feith and a group of neo-conservatives civilians inside the Pentagon is regime change in Iran.

He confirmed that Secretary of State Colin Powell complained directly to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld several days ago about Feith's policy shop conducting missions that countered U.S. policy.

Jim Gillian (http://www.jimgilliam.com/2003/08/inside_rummys_office_part_2.php)

New Iran-gate developing?

Tommy Duncan
08-30-2004, 11:32 AM
Why would the Bush administration want an investigation into a potential high level Israeli mole in the DoD publicized today? That makes no sense whatsoever.

But it does show the problem with Kerry's campaign strategy. Had Kerry made the decision to invade Iraq the issue of his campaign and forced Bush to defend his decision to invade throughout this campaign then a revelation such as this could have been a fatal blow for Bush.

MannyIsGod
08-30-2004, 05:28 PM
exactly, but the bush camp had kerry backpedling with the flip flop references, and which then forced him to declare his support for the iraq war continuing.

if this election were a game of chess, kerry would have been mated in 10 moves. it's pathetic.

Yonivore
08-30-2004, 05:34 PM
"Anyone surprised this is breaking over the weekend?"
Anyone surprised this makes no freakin' sense?

Go ahead, Nbadan, decipher that 'flowchart' for us.

Nbadan
08-31-2004, 07:30 AM
Go ahead, Nbadan, decipher that 'flowchart' for us.

Well, there is one important name that is missing on the flow chart that will help round out this scandal...Michael Leeden.

It seems like we may have the makings of another (even more serious) Iran-Contra scandal...this time involving Israel - rogue elements with the U.S. DoD - Iran. More later...developing...

Nbadan
08-31-2004, 06:31 PM
More important clues on this developing DOD spy scandal


For some, the exposure of an FBI investigation into the operations of a supposed Israeli mole in the Pentagon was proof that Jews can never risk trusting a Republican administration—even in these times when Christian fundamentalists, so important to Bush's base, are solidly lined up behind Israel. (They see the Jewish state's existence as a sign of the end-times and the return of Christ.)

Whatever it may mean, playing politics with the Jewish vote is tricky business that risks backfiring. On the surface, the mole story seems pretty tenuous. It involves a two-year-long FBI investigation into a mid-level Pentagon Iran analyst, one Larry Franklin, who supposedly gave a draft of a National Security Policy Directive, a policy paper, to members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. On Friday, the FBI visited the AIPAC offices in Washington, requested various documents, and began interviewing the staff. In a letter to AIPAC members, the organization's director, Howard Kohr wrote, "We will continue to offer our full cooperation and are confident that the government will find absolutely no wrongdoing by our organization and its employees." He added, "In the coming days and weeks, it will be critical for members like you to continue to demonstrate your confidence as Americans, supporters of Israel and members of AIPAC and the U.S.–Israel relationship."

The New York Sun reported Monday that the Franklin inquiry has its origins in a search for the person who leaked top secret war plans for Iraq published in The New York Times in early July 2002. At the time, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was highly irritated by the leak and declared at a July 21, 2002, press conference, "It's inexcusable, and they ought to be in jail." Later, in a memo to Pentagon staff, Rumsfeld wrote, "I have spoken publicly and privately countless times about the danger of leaking classified information. It is wrong. It is against the law." According to the Sun, it's unlikely Franklin will be charged with espionage. "This is not a matter of U.S. security being damaged," a senior law enforcement official told the paper. "And the material wasn't of a top secret nature—it was draft policy papers and position papers and stuff like that. The Israelis could have gotten the same stuff from conversations with their counterparts at State or the White House."

What is one to make of this? If it's not a Democratic maneuver to keep Jews away from Bush, then maybe it's a run by old-line conservatives to get rid of pro-Israel neoconservatives, who they feel are ruining Bush's re-election chances with their nutball Middle East policies, which after failure in Iraq are now aiming to lock the U.S. into a war with Iran. Or maybe, as others suggest, the story marks the surfacing of a hidden Pentagon back channel to Iranian dissidents, out of which Rumsfeld's foreign office hopes to bring about regime change there.

Village Voice (http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0435/mondo3.php)

:hat

Tommy Duncan
08-31-2004, 06:33 PM
Why couldn't the leak have been perpetrated by someone sympathetic to Kerry?

Oh wait, liberal Democrats do no wrong. I forgot.

Nbadan
09-01-2004, 07:00 AM
WASHINGTON: Washington was rocked late last week by allegations that a Pentagon policy analyst on Iran, Laurence A. Franklin, had passed classified information to Israel through the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the leading pro-Israel lobby group in the US. He is also said to have had extensive meetings with Naor Gilon, head of the political department at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, and a specialist on Iran's nuclear weapons program.

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Journalist Steven Green, a long-time observer of Israeli espionage efforts in the United States, told the Daily Star that he had spoken extensively with individuals involved in the investigation, and that "I know from personal experience that its scope is much wider in terms of the targets than we have been told so far."

He said that more senior officials than Franklin "should be extremely nervous about this." Green speculated that the scandal might involve exchanges of information between "sophisticates in the intelligence communities of Israel and Iran at the expense of the United States. ... There is a possible quid-pro-quo involved in Iran receiving US intelligence codes through the neocon favorite Ahmed Chalabi and the Israelis getting our latest thinking on Iran's nuclear program. ...You can see how that would benefit both parties, but not the US."

USA Today reported Monday that law enforcement officials said "there may be some crossover" between the Franklin and Chalabi investigations.

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James Bamford, a leading observer of the US intelligence community and author of the recent book "Pretext for War," said, "These allegations don't surprise me at all, since Franklin works for Feith, who is essentially a pro-Israel extremist. It certainly should encourage another look at the influence of Israel in the motivations for the Iraq war. Sharon was pushing the US very hard to go to war in August, 2002." Bamford added: "The neoconservatives surround themselves with people who are fanatically pro-Israel, and maybe they were too over confident, or felt that no one would notice or no one would care, or that they were running things so it wouldn't matter, but luckily the FBI is independent of the Pentagon." Bamford said it is significant that while the FBI had informed Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy Paul Wolfowitz, it had not told Feith about the investigation.

Daily Star (http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=7909)