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2004-08-28 00:13 | User Profile
[URL=http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/470334.html]Israeli spy said operating in the Pentagon [/URL]
The American TV network CBS reported Friday that an Israeli spy is operating inside the Pentagon.
According to the report, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is convinced the spy has conveyed highly sensitive information to the Israeli government via two representatives of the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee).
The report says the suspected mole is a senior analyst who works in the bureau of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. [B]The person is also said to be closely associated with two senior Pentagon officials who are Jewish, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith.[/B]
"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," the CBS reported.
CBS reported that the mole, whom it described as a ââ¬Åtrusted analyst of the Pentagon,ââ¬Â had last year passed on ââ¬Åsecret White House deliberation on Iran.ââ¬Â
FBI investigators are concerned that Israel may have used the mole in an effort to influence U.S. policy on the war in Iraq.
The FBI has notified Rumsfeld about the investigation and asked AIPAC to provide it with information about the two representatives suspected of involvement.
The Israeli embassy in Washington issued a statement in which it categorically denied the allegations, saying "they are completely false and outrageous."
AIPAC issued a statement saying "we would not condone or tolerate, for a second, any violation of U.S. law or interests. We are fully cooperating with the governmental authorities and will continue to do so."
The suspected spy has not returned repeated phone calls from CBS News.
In November of 1985, Naval intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard was arrested at the gates of the Israeli embassy in Washington, on espionage charges. He was tried, convicted and handed a life sentence.
Israel apologized for the incident and disbanded the intelligence cell, of which Pollard was a part.
2004-08-28 01:36 | User Profile
How about the spy in the White House?????????
Don't you guys know that the Israelis (Zionists) have a blank pass to go in and out of the Pentagon at will?,,,,,,,,,, looks for the article are Rense.com, I believe that it was a female Major that uncovered what was going on.
Every Israeli "tourist" that goes anywhere on this planet on "vacation" are always debrief as to what they saw on their vacations.
We have those people in the armed forces, police department, FBI, CIA and in every aspect of our lives,,,,,,,,,,, and now you worry about having a Israeli spy in the pentagon?????????? Oy vei.
2004-08-28 02:36 | User Profile
Great post, Ponce.
If one card is turned over, though, maybe the entire deck will fly up. It's heavy shit. The entire cabal -la -la has got to keep getting pasted now, every day, make 'em pay..
2004-08-28 03:11 | User Profile
[url]http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1201314/posts[/url]
Can't resist looking in ZionistRepublic. Wow! It's like hitting the kitchen lights and watching the cockroaches scatter. Now only if we had some Baygon . . .
Damage Control must be in panic mode there. They've also locked a couple of threads covering the same story which mention America's bestest buddy in the title. :D
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2004-08-28 03:57 | User Profile
This was actually reported by Cosher Bullsh!tting System??!!
Will wonder never ceases to amaze!
The fact that only [U]one[/U] kosher spy is under investigation by the Fumbling Bumbling Incinerators makes one wonder if this is some kind of "damage control". If the FedGov were to do it's job and try to protect the nation from [U]all enemies[/U] foreign and domestic, the resulting cleansing would make the old Russian "pogroms" seeem like child's play.
2004-08-28 09:10 | User Profile
Sartre,
Awhile back I asked Bill Bennett what Israel was doing to help us. He assured me that they were being most helpful. This is a case in point.
We need to do as the French did during the Cold War and the Socialists were running things. They never allowed the Communists to hold the Defense Ministry nor the ones that dealt with internal security.
2004-08-28 11:11 | User Profile
Sertorius,
Reported in: [URL=http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/ââ¬Â]The FBI investigation[/URL] "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, and to the Israelis, as alleged by the CBS report. That individual is [U][B]Larry Franklin[/B][/U], a veteran DIA Iran analyst seconded to Feithââ¬â¢s office".
The NYT has this account: [URL=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/28/politics/28spy.html?ex=1094661360&ei=1&en=0c0b68aef09d6b39]Pentagon Official Suspected of Giving U.S. Secrets to Israel[/URL]
The Sunday talk programs will be a study in disinformation this week.
I asked on my BATR Yahoo Group: [I]"Think the Patriot Act might be used to send the traitor to Guantanamo?"[/I]
Deportation of all Israel First supporters, may be the only real solution.
SARTRE :thumbsup:
2004-08-28 20:27 | User Profile
Sartre,
Yes, I've been looking at all these stories. My own newspaper neglected it. I'm looking forward to see how the neocon media and neocon radio try to spin this. I suspect in the case of radio they'll attempt to ignore it. I might try to call Benett's show tomorrow to see if he has anything to say on it. I'd love to see this person prosecuted under the "Patriot act, but for some reason I don't think that will happen. That is reserved for those who don't like our Judeo-plutocracy. I wonder if Ledeen is involved here. He's the one who got Pollard his job, I believe. If not him, then Bryens.
2004-08-29 03:55 | User Profile
More sleaze...
[url]http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040824-102938-1916r.htm[/url]
FBI probes DOD office
By Richard Sale UPI Intelligence Correspondent 8/28/04
The FBI has intensified its investigation of senior members of what was formerly known as the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans on suspicion that one of them passed highly classified U.S. military information to the government of Israel, according to federal law enforcement officials.
In some cases, colleagues, former associates and members of other government agencies have been interviewed as many as four times by teams of FBI agents, FBI officials told United Press International.
Two of the people interviewed are Bill Luti, former chief of OSP, and Harold Rhode of the Near East/South Asia office, according to participants in the investigation.
The OSP, an intelligence unit, was set up by the No. 3 man in the Pentagon, Douglas Feith, undersecretary of defense for policy, according to retired Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, who was a staffer in the office from June 2002 through March 2003.
Luti, a former Navy captain, switched to the Pentagon from Vice President Richard Cheney's staff, according to a congressional investigative memo.
According to other congressional memos, Luti was made deputy undersecretary and reported directly to Feith.
Luti also presided over the NESA office that worked closely with OSP "with sometimes an interchangeable staff," according to one congressional memo described the OSP "as a loose group of acolytes and hired hands" for Cheney, and (Cheney's chief of staff) I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Feith -- all "performing a mixture of intelligence, planning and other unspecified operational duties in support of preordained policy."
According to Kwiatkowski, Luti was a "name-dropper, who often referred to deadlines and assignments coming from 'Scooter.'"
Pentagon spokesman, Lt. Col Chris Conway, told UPI that neither Luti nor Rhode had been interviewed or polygraphed by the FBI nor had their bosses alerted them that they were the subjects of an investigation.
A federal law enforcement official was not surprised. He said, "Any target of an investigation is the last person we would talk to. The fact that subjects haven't been approached is part of normal investigative procedure."
Rhode, another prominent official of the NESA office, also works for the Office of Net Assessment, Pentagon officials said.
According to one federal law enforcement official, Rhode and Luti and other OSP officials have been frequently mentioned in FBI interviews, "chiefly the nature and extent of his contacts with Israel," according to federal law enforcement officials.
A Pentagon spokesman said Rhode has been working for Net Assessment "for the last 10 years."
A former very senior CIA official told United Press International that Rhode recently had his security clearances lifted.
In an e-mail to UPI, Rhode denied this. "I have never had my security clearances revoked or canceled."
At least three former CIA officials told UPI that in 1998 Rhode had his clearances suspended, based on allegations he had given classified information to Israel.
In the same e-mail, Rhode denied this as well, adding: "Nor have I been informed that I am under any type of investigation."
Two former senior U.S. intelligence officials also stated that Rhode is on administrative leave.
However, Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Chris Conway said answering the question about whether or not Rhode is on administrative leave would violate the privacy act and therefore had no comment.
The NESA/OSP office was located on the fourth floor of the Pentagon, D ring, 7th corridor, according to Kwiatkowski, the former staffer.
According to one former senior U.S. intelligence official who maintained excellent contacts with serving U.S. intelligence officials in the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, "Rhode practically lived out of (Ahmad) Chalabi's office."
This same source quoted the intelligence official with the CPA as saying, "Rhode was observed by CIA operatives as being constantly on his cell phone to Israel," and that the information that the intelligence officials overheard him passing to Israel was "mind-boggling," this source said.
It dealt with U.S. plans, military deployments, political projects, discussion of Iraq assets, and a host of other sensitive topics, the former senior U.S. intelligence official said.
Other members of OSP are also under scrutiny, but federal law enforcement officials declined to confirm additional names furnished them by UPI. Pentagon spokesman Conway said, "We have no knowledge of any probe of particular OSP members."
Rhode is a close member of an inner circle of senior Bush officials who in the past have had skirmishes with the FBI over allegations that they provided classified information to Israel, several serving and former U.S. intelligence officials said.
FBI spokesman, Bill Carter said, "It has been our long-standing policy not to comment on matters of this type or to confirm or deny the existence of any investigation."
A great many examples of this was substantiated by Stephen Green, a highly respected author of two books on U.S.-Israeli relations, who, in a February article in Counterpunch, noted that the Pentagon finally downgraded Ledeen's security clearances from Top Secret-SCI to Secret in the mid-1980s, after an earlier boss, Noel Koch, the Principal Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs, had urged the FBI to begin a probe of Ledeen, then a consultant on terrorism, for passing classified materials to a foreign country, believed to be Israel. (Green notes that Ledeen "was carried in Agency files as an agent of influence of a foreign government: Israel," a fact he confirmed for UPI in an interview.
Former agency officials said they knew this to be accurate.
In 2001, Ledeen was hired by Feith to work on contract for the Office of Special Plans, which involved the handling of sensitive materials, Green said, a fact confirmed last week to UPI by congressional investigators.
Yet according to Green, in March 1983, Feith, then a Middle East analyst on the National Security Council, was fired by Judge William Clark, who had replaced Richard Allen as national security adviser, because Feith "had been the object of an inquiry into whether he had provided classified material to an official of the Israeli Embassy in Washington" and that the FBI "had opened an inquiry."
Former Counterterrorism Chief Vince Cannistraro confirmed that Feith was fired from the NSC for leaking classified data to Israel.
In 1982, Feith went to work for Pentagon official Richard Perle, according to Green and confirmed by U.S. intelligence sources.
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who an administration official described as having played a "large role in getting Feith" his current job, was working for the Arms Control and Disarmament agency in 1978 and was the subject of an investigation that alleged he had provided "a classified document on the proposed sale of U.S. weapons to an Arab government to an Israeli government official" via "an AIPAC intermediary," according to Green. The probe was eventually dropped.
In 1981, Wolfowitz, who was working as head of the State Department Policy Planning Staff, hired Ledeen as a Special Advisor, Green said.
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2004-08-29 06:04 | User Profile
It's very strange that the Jewish controlled media gave some relevance to this, and the whole story is extremely unusual... 1. Israel can have any info they want just by picking up the phone and calling Wolfowitz, Feith etc. (their buddy Richard Perle was literally caught phoning-in some top-secret info to the Israeli embassy some time ago, but the whole affaire was hushed up). Why would they need a 'spy' in Pentagon the first place? 2. As for 'influencing' the US policy in the Middle East - they own the US policy there. Why would they need a lowly analist for this? 3. Shortly before 9/11 the US expelled hundreds of Israeli agents (some of them were probably shadowing Mohammed Atta & co.) with none of the publicity the media is currently dedicating to a single, relatively insignificant spy.
I might be paranoid, but there is definitely something fishy with this. My guess is that the analist is being sacrificed to cover up something much bigger (either because somebody in FBI they don't own/control has thretened to spill the beans or because the feds stumbled into something that is absolutely impossible to hush up). Stay tuned and read between the lines...
2004-08-29 13:42 | User Profile
I just finish reading that the Zionist spy for the state of Israel at one time "served" in Israel,,,,,,,,, but, it doesn't say as what,,,,,,, was he in the army? the intelligence service? was he a cook?,,,,,,,,,crazy man, crazy.
As you know once a Jews serves as an officer for the government of Israel he is an officer for LIFE,,,,,, even when he is "retired".
So, those officers from a foreing government are trained by them and then they comes to the US and we gives them a security clearence, if he even had a security clearence, where they can openly spy on us.
I wonder how many more of those people are right now in the Pentagon.
2004-08-29 13:48 | User Profile
Ponce,
I read in one account that he is a retired colonel in the U.S. Airforce reserve.
Rudel,
I think you may be correct. Something stinks here.
2004-08-29 14:53 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Rudel] I might be paranoid, but there is definitely something fishy with this. My guess is that the analist is being sacrificed to cover up something much bigger (either because somebody in FBI they don't own/control has thretened to spill the beans or because the feds stumbled into something that is absolutely impossible to hush up). Stay tuned and read between the lines...[/QUOTE]
Rudel and Sertorius,
No doubt your assessment is correct. Not paranoia, just plain good old common sense.
BATR News often cites and link to articles by Stephen Green. Counterpunch may frequently publish disappointed Marxists; however, they have a sound distrust for the NeoCons.
Where are the voices of conservative principle when it comes to exposing the traitors? None of us know the full scope of the details, but we all should know beyond question the purpose for the treason.
The test for this election cycle will rest upon the courage of candidates to address the Israel First spies that make U.S. foreign policy. Expect silence from most. Anyone that comes to their defense betrays our country.
A massive cover-up is standard practice. Not much said on the Sunday 'pol' programs. Can't wait to hear O'Reilly on this one . . .
SARTRE :angry:
2004-08-29 15:29 | User Profile
Also here:
[url]http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/470773.html[/url] FBI seeks Franklin's help; Wolfowitz may be questioned
By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent, Nathan Guttman, Haaretz Correspondent in Washington, Haaretz Service and Agencies
The FBI is in contact with Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin, and is seeking his cooperation in its investigation into suspicions that he passed classified information to Israel via the pro-Israel AIPAC lobbying group, the New York Times reported ..............
2004-08-29 16:28 | User Profile
Ed,
Check out the links on [URL=http://batr.net]BATR News[/URL] and from that site [URL=http://neoconswatch.blogspot.com/]NeoCon Watch[/URL]
As this story unfolds, the cover-up will become the primary task. This scandel could links all the dots together. The real question is the timing. Suggest factors that are yet unknown are in play.
Maybe the October surprise has been moved up?
SARTRE
2004-08-29 19:38 | User Profile
All:
Consider this assessment posted on the following:
[url]http://xymphora.blogspot.com/[/url]
This latest Israeli spy story makes no sense, and may be part of a set up to protect the real traitors:
1) As the story is being reported, the alleged spy for Israel passed on information concerning American policy towards Iran to AIPAC, which in turn passed it on to the Israeli government. This makes so little sense it is almost funny. Why would anyone even consider this convoluted, and dangerous, route? We have to assume that there is direct constant communication between Feith's office and Sharon's office. The fax machines and e-mails must just hum. I'm sure Sharon gets the latest on all relevant Pentagon matters before anyone else does. Why would Sharon need a particular American spy when the entire group of neocons in the Pentagon are his agents?
2) The fellow being fingered as the spy is Larry Franklin, a career analyst and an expert on Iran. He is not a member of the neocon cabal, and, according to Haaretz, is not even a Jew. What motive would he have to risk everything to assist Sharon? Money? Why would Sharon pay money for something he can get for free? The standard Mossad model which has made Israeli intelligence so powerful is that Jews living in countries around the world are enlisted to help the cause of the Jewish homeland. There are a whole bunch of Jewish neocons in the Pentagon who fit this model, some already under various clouds of suspicion for helping Israel in the past, who fit right into the Mossad model. Picking the only prominent non-Jew as the culprit seems almost to be somebody's idea of a sick joke. If he was paid money to pass materials on to AIPAC, it was to enlist him as the patsy to take the heat off the real culprits. Although Franklin was stupid enough to meet with Manucher Ghorbanifar, that doesn't make him an Israeli spy.
3) The story appears to be intended to direct attention away from the real scandal. Sharon didn't need to have someone slip him America's position on Iran for one simple reason: Sharon writes America's position on Iran. The neocon cabal has been in direct communication with Sharon's office from the beginnings of the Bush Administration. This is with the full blessings of Bush himself, prodded by the Christian Zionists who want Israel to have full control over American policy in the Middle East. This scandal isn't a spying scandal. It is the treason of handing over full control of American foreign policy to the leader of another country. We have seen how this played out with respect to the attack on Iraq, and we will see it play out in future attacks on Iran and Syria.
Franklin may very well have gotten over his head in meeting with Ghorbanifar, and whatever happened at those meetings may be enough to force him to take the patsy role. If he has to cop a plea, Bush will pardon him, and the whole scandal concerning the neocons and Sharon will neatly disappear. It appears that people are already preparing a Unified Theory of Bush Administration Malfeasance on Iraq, tying the meetings with Ghorbanifar with the forged Niger documents, Chalabi, Plame, and the disastrous attack. I urge extreme caution in swallowing this, as it may just be another ruse to protect the traitors who ceded full control of American Middle East policy to Ariel Sharon.
2004-08-29 22:28 | User Profile
One big question in my mind is whether or not Franklin is a Jew. Does anyone have any links to photos of him? It might be evident in his features. If he is in fact a gentile lackey fall guy, the possibility exists that he could "finger" some top dogs like Wolfowitz.
2004-08-30 01:02 | User Profile
This makes sense and from reading this man for quite a while I am of the opinion that he knows what he is talking about. -S
Informed Comment [url=http://www.juancole.com/]http://www.juancole.com/[/url] Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion
Juan Cole is Professor of History at the University of Michigan
Sunday, August 29, 2004 Pentagon/Israel Spying Case Expands: Fomenting a War on Iran
Here is my take on the Lawrence Franklin espionage scandal in the Pentagon.
It is an echo of the one-two punch secretly planned by the pro-Likud faction in the Department of Defense. First, Iraq would be taken out by the United States, and then Iran. David Wurmser, a key member of the group, also wanted Syria included. These pro-Likud intellectuals concluded that 9/11 would give them carte blanche to use the Pentagon as Israel's Gurkha regiment, fighting elective wars on behalf of Tel Aviv (not wars that really needed to be fought, but wars that the Likud coalition thought it would be nice to see fought so as to increase Israel's ability to annex land and act aggressively, especially if someone else's boys did the dying).
Franklin is a reserve Air Force colonel and former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst. He was an attache at the US embassy in Tel Aviv at one point, which some might now see as suspicious. After the Cold War ended, Franklin became concerned with Iran as a threat to Israel and the US, and learned a little Persian (not very much--I met him once at a conference and he could only manage a few halting phrases of Persian). Franklin has a strong Brooklyn accent and says he is "from the projects." I was told by someone at the Pentagon that he is not Jewish, despite his strong association with the predominantly Jewish neoconservatives. I know that he is very close to Paul Wolfowitz. He seems a canny man and a political operator, and if he gave documents to AIPAC it was not an act of simple stupidity, as some observers have suggested. It was part of some clever scheme that became too clever by half.
Franklin moved over to the Pentagon from DIA, where he became the Iran expert, working for Bill Luti and Undersecretary of Defense for Planning, Douglas Feith. He was the "go to" person on Iran for Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, and for Feith. This situation is pretty tragic, since Franklin is not a real Iranist. His main brief appears to have been to find ways to push a policy of overthrowing its government (apparently once Iraq had been taken care of). This project has been pushed by the shadowy eminence grise, Michael Ledeen, for many years, and Franklin coordinated with Ledeen in some way. Franklin was also close to Harold Rhode, a long-time Middle East specialist in the Defense Department who has cultivated far right pro-Likud cronies for many years, more or less establishing a cell within the Department of Defense.
UPI via Dawn reports,
' An UPI report said another under-investigation official Mr Rhode "practically lived out of (Ahmad) Chalabi's office". Intelligence sources said that CIA operatives observed Mr Rhode as being constantly on his cell phone to Israel, discussing US plans, military deployments, political projects and a discussion of Iraq assets. '
Josh Marshall, Laura Rozen and Paul Glastris have just published a piece in the Washington Monthly that details Franklin's meetings with corrupt Iranian arms dealer and con man Manuchehr Ghorbanifar, who had in the 1980s played a key role in the Iran-contra scandal. (For more on the interviews with Ghorbanifar, see Laura Rozen's web log). It is absolutely key that the meetings were attended also by Rhode, Ledeen and the head of Italy's military intelligence agency, SISMI, Nicolo Pollari, as well as Rome's Minister of Defense, Antonio Martino.
The rightwing government of corrupt billionnaire Silvio Berlusconi, including Martino, was a big supporter of an Iraq war. Moreover, we know that the forged documents falsely purporting to show Iraqi uranium purchases from Niger originated with a former SISMI agent. Watch the reporting of Josh Marshall for more on this SISMI/Ledeen/Rhode connection.
But journalist Matthew Yglesias has already tipped us to a key piece of information. The Niger forgeries also try to implicate Iran. Indeed, the idea of a joint Iraq/Iran nuclear plot was so far-fetched that it is what initially made the Intelligence and Research division of the US State Department suspicious of the forgeries, even before the discrepancies of dates and officials in Niger were noticed. Yglesisas quotes from the Senate report on the alleged Iraqi attempt to buy uranium from Niger:
' The INR [that's State Department intelligence] nuclear analyst told the Committee staff that the thing that stood out immediately about the [forged] documents was that a companion document -- a document included with the Niger documents that did not relate to uranium -- mentioned some type of military campaign against major world powers. The members of the alleged military campaign included both Iraq and Iran and was, according to the documents, being orchestrated through the Nigerien [note: that's not the same as Nigerian] Embassy in Rome, which all struck the analyst as "completely implausible." Because the stamp on this document matched the stamp on the uranium document [the stamp was supposed to establish the documents bona fides], the analyst thought that all of the documents were likely suspect. The analyst was unaware at the time of any formatting problems with the documents or inconsistencies with the names or dates. '
Journalist Eric Margolis notes of SISMI:
SISMI has long been notorious for far right, even neo-fascist, leanings. According to Italian judicial investigators, SISMI was deeply involved in numerous plots against Italyââ¬â¢s democratic government, including the 1980 Bologna train station terrorist bombing that left 85 dead and 200 injured. Senior SISMI officers were in cahoots with celebrated swindler Roberto Calvi, the neo-fascist P2 Masonic Lodge, other extreme rightist groups trying to destabilize Italy, the Washington neocon operative, Michael Ledeen, and the Iran-Contra conspirators. SISMI works hand in glove with US, British and Israeli intelligence. In the 1960ââ¬â¢s and 70ââ¬â¢s, SISMI reportedly carried out numerous operations for CIA, including bugging the Vatican, the Italian presidentââ¬â¢s palace, and foreign embassies. Italyââ¬â¢s civilian intelligence service, SISDE, associated with Italyââ¬â¢s political center-left, has long been a bitter rival of SISMI. After CIA rejected the Niger file, it was eagerly snapped up by VP Dick Cheney and his chief of staff, Lewis Libby, who were urgently seeking any reason, no matter how specious, to invade Iraq. Cheney passed the phony data to Bush, who used it in his January, 2003 address to the nation in spite of warnings from CIA . . .
So Franklin, Ledeen, and Rhode, all of them pro-Likud operatives, just happen to be meeting with SISMI (the proto-fascist purveyor of the false Niger uranium story about Iraq and the alleged Iran-Iraq plot against the rest of the world) and corrupt Iranian businessman and would-be revolutionary, Ghorbanifar, in Europe. The most reasonable conclusion is that they were conspiring together about the Next Campaign after Iraq, which they had already begun setting in train, which is to get Iran.
But now The Jerusalem Post reveals that at least one of the meetings was quite specific with regard to an attempt to torpedo better US/Iran relations:
The purpose of the meeting with Ghorbanifar was to undermine a pending deal that the White House had been negotiating with the Iranian government. At the time, Iran had considered turning over five al-Qaida operatives in exchange for Washington dropping its support for Mujahadeen Khalq, an Iraq-based rebel Iranian group listed as a terrorist organization by the State Department.
The Neoconservatives have some sort of shadowy relationship with the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization or MEK. Presumably its leaders have secretly promised to recognize Israel if they ever succeed in overthrowing the ayatollahs in Iran. When the US recently categorized the MEK as a terrorist organization, there were howls of outrage from "scholars" associated with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (a wing of AIPAC), such as ex-Trotskyite Patrick Clawson and Daniel Pipes. MEK is a terrorist organization by any definition of the term, having blown up innocent people in the course of its struggle against the Khomeini government. (MEK is a cult-like mixture of Marx and Islam). The MEK had allied with Saddam, who gave them bases in Iraq from which to hit Iran. When the US overthrew Saddam, it raised the question of what to do with the MEK. The pro-Likud faction in the Pentagon wanted to go on developing their relationship with the MEK and using it against Tehran.
So it transpires that the Iranians were willing to give up 5 key al-Qaeda operatives, whom they had captured, in return for MEK members.
Franklin, Rhode and Ledeen conspired with Ghorbanifar and SISMI to stop that trade. It would have led to better US-Iran relations, which they wanted to forestall, and it would have damaged their proteges, the MEK.
Since high al-Qaeda operatives like Saif al-Adil and possibly even Saad Bin Laden might know about future operations, or the whereabouts of Bin Laden, for Franklin and Rhode to stop the trade grossly endangered the United States.
The FBI has evidence that Franklin passed a draft presidential directive on Iran to AIPAC, which then passed it to the Israelis. The FBI is construing these actions as espionage or something close to it. But that is like getting Al Capone on tax evasion. Franklin was not giving the directive to AIPAC in order to provide them with information. He was almost certainly seeking feedback from them on elements of it. He was asking, "Do you like this? Should it be changed in any way?" And, he might also have been prepping AIPAC for the lobbying campaign scheduled for early in 2005, when Congress will have to be convinced to authorize military action, or at least covert special operations, against Iran. AIPAC probably passed the directive over to Israel for the same reason--not to inform, but to seek input. That is, AIPAC and Israel were helping write US policy toward Iran, just as they had played a key role in fomenting the Iraq war.
With both Iraq and Iran in flames, the Likud Party could do as it pleased in the Middle East without fear of reprisal. This means it could expel the Palestinians from the West Bank to Jordan, and perhaps just give Gaza back to Egypt to keep Cairo quiet. Annexing southern Lebanon up to the Litani River, the waters of which Israel has long coveted, could also be undertaken with no consequences, they probably think, once Hizbullah in Lebanon could no longer count on Iranian support. The closed character of the economies of Iraq and Iran, moreover, would end, allowing American, Italian and British companies to make a killing after the wars (so they thought).
Franklin's movements reveal the contours of a rightwing conspiracy of warmongering and aggression, an orgy of destruction, for the benefit of the Likud Party, of Silvio Berlusconi's business in the Middle East, and of the Neoconservative Right in the United States. It isn't about spying. It is about conspiring to conscript the US government on behalf of a foreign power or powers.
posted by Juan @ 8/29/2004 06:38:11 AM
2004-08-31 03:14 | User Profile
If any of you have a link to "Signs of the time" go to it and read it, they have a super article about the "spys" and the influence of the Jews in the US government.
2004-09-06 01:06 | User Profile
Every time I turn around I see something about the US government going after the Zionists and their spys in the USA,,,,,,,, About time.
Maybe this is the wake up that this country needed in order to get rid of this particular kind of a "friend".
Like I keep saying,,,,,,,
"When the truth comes into the light, the lies will hide in the dark",,,,Ponce