Feith Lackey Charged With Passing Secret Data to Israel via AIPAC

[BurtWorm]

I think I remember Laurie Rozen of warandpieces.com writing about this guy last year. Anyone know anything more about this?

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Pentagon-Spy-Probe.html?ei=5094&en=476470f4ad73328a&hp=&ex=1115265600&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print&position=

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 12:10 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI arrested a Pentagon analyst Wednesday on charges that he illegally passed classified information about potential attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq to employees of a pro-Israel group.

Larry Franklin, 58, of Kearneysville, W. Va., turned himself in Wednesday morning, FBI spokeswoman Debra Weierman said. He was scheduled to make an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., later Wednesday, Weierman said.

The charge is the first in an investigation dating back to 2001 about whether Israel improperly obtained classified U.S. information.

Franklin, who specialized on Iran and Middle Eastern affairs, allegedly gave the information to two people not entitled to receive it at a luncheon meeting at a restaurant in Arlington, Va., in June 2003, FBI agent Catherine Hanna said in an affidavit accompanying the criminal complaint against Franklin. The people at the lunch were employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a law enforcement official said on condition of anonymity because they are not identified in court papers.

[BurtWorm]

1. kick

[KittyWampus]

2. Isn't This The SECOND Spy In The Pentagon Passing Info To Israel?

or is this the same guy?

Remember there was someone in Feist's circle?

[BurtWorm]

3. You mean Feith's circle?

I might be confusing them, but I think I remember the name Franklin from last year.

[KittyWampus]

7. Oops, Got Feith's Name Wrong. This Is Same Guy. Looks Like They're

whitewashing the 'spying' part.

Your thread title should be more sexy...

Pentagon Analyst Arrested For Passing US Military Secrets To Israel.

:)

[BurtWorm]

9. Good point.

I borrowed the unsexy title AP gave it. ;)

[Stephanie]

8. secrets were passed to AIPAC

and we were speculating that it was Feith, IIRC

[bobthedrummer]

6. Well, it wasn't me or anyone named Feist either, cryingshame.

Maybe you mean those Aipac guys?

[liveoaktx]

4. War and Piece artlcle

http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/001067.html

[BurtWorm]

5. Thank you!

From the article:

For months, I have been working with my colleagues Paul Glastris and Josh Marshall on a story for the Washington Monthly about pre-war intelligence. In particular, the component I have been focusing on involves a particular series of meetings involving officials from the office of the undersecretary of defense for Policy Doug Feith and Iranian dissidents.

As part of our reporting, I have come into possession of information that points to an official who is the most likely target of the FBI investigation into who allegedly passed intelligence on deliberations on US foreign policy to Iran to officials with the pro-Israeli lobby group, AIPAC, as alleged by the CBS report. That individual is Larry Franklin, a veteran DIA Iran analyst seconded to Feith’s office.

Here is what I was told in the days before the FBI investigation came to light.

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.