Israeli Spies in the Pentagon?

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Rosen, Weissman (AIPAC) indictments,

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• Plamegate, Leakgate

• AIPAC / Rosen, Weissman, Pentagon moles.

• Bush's 2003 State of the Union speech, Niger Forged Documents   & Iraq War, Iran

• McClellan

• Introduction:   Franklin /AIPACgate                 
• flowchart &  Timeline below
• Introduction 
•  United States v.  Lawrence A. Franklin, Stephen J. Rosen and Keith Weissman indictment
• Charged with a little known provision of the Espionage Act are a former Pentagon official and two former employees of a pro-Israel lobby organization, the American-Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC).  Arraigned Aug 16, 2005. .. 
• WMR "Plame leak damaged a major CIA investigation linking senior Bush administration officials to WMD proliferation. U.S. intelligence insiders have pointed out that the White House is using "Rovegate" and "Who in the White House said what to whom?" as a smoke screen to divert attention away from the actual counter-proliferation work Mrs. Wilson and her Brewster Jennings & Associates team were engaged in." and WMR Plame and Edmonds were looking at the same covert network  and   ....  WMR June 13, 2006, WMR reported: "There is also evidence that some of the highly classified CIA information convicted Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin passed through American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) staffers Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman to Israeli agents attached to the Israeli embassy in Washington dealt with Iranian nuclear development and that CIA sensitive sources and methods not disclosed by the outing of Plame Wilson/Brewster Jennings were discovered in the leak of the CIA documents to AIPAC and the Israelis."
• Dissident Voice "Israeli-US Strategy: Lebanon and Iran ... Even as the bricks were still smoldering from 9/11, Israeli ideological point men, Senator Lieberman and Undersecretary for Defense Wolfowitz urged Washington to attack Iran by launching either simultaneous or sequential wars. In pursuit of Israel’s regional priorities, its representatives in the US Government, in the Pentagon (Wolfowitz, Feith and Shulsky), in the National Security Council (Abrams), in the Vice President’s Office (Libby) and in the President’s Office (Speech writer Frum) falsified intelligence, designed the propaganda (War Against Terror, Axis of Evil) and planned the War against Iraq, and with the Lobby secured near unanimous Congressional acquiescence. They then successfully secured a US boycott of Syria and support for Israel’s expropriation, annexation and settlement of Palestinian land in the West Bank and the destruction of Gaza. Even as the US invasion failed to secure control of Iraq, Israel’s representatives in the US Government did destroy Iraqi society and state, and its capacity to support the Palestinian resistance, increasing Israel’s regional power (at a very high cost to the United States)."  These indictments just a predictable course of events in the fascist neo-con plans for the Middle East.
• Elizabeth Cheney, Iran Syria Operations Group Iraq is just a stepping stone to Iran attack? Go to NFU research
•     Go to U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Phase II, final report, searchable text file and pdf. "Sadly, the Bush Administration led the nation into war under false pretenses.". AIPAC was highly complicit in this effort.
• WayneMadsenReport "BAE Systems part of effort to cook bogus intelligence against Saddam Hussein" search terms: mobile trailers designed to manufacture hydrogen for weather balloons, British Ministry of Defence scientist David Kelly aware of this, 'suicided', Southmoor, 2003,  Norman Baker investigation confirmed, trailers, Kuwait, other equipment moved into Iraq, BAE-Marconi, radar systems, frame-up, laundered thru Ministry of Defense contracts, Abbey Wood, Bristol, England ... phony contract to provide radar trailers to Tanzania, bribery scandal, World Bank, Tony Blair. also Saudi, Al Yamamah BAE Systems arms deal, Riggs Bank, Jonathan J. Bush, former Riggs executive, George W. Bush's uncle, defense contracts grease, campaign contributions to Duncan Hunter, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, US shipped VX nerve gas to Iraq 1988-89, in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 598, Iraq / Iran war, Mukhabarat, VX aerial bombs, parachute-born, pre-set height, Bilad, shipped from US, canisters removed from Iraq by the British, Turkey, Valerie Plame, CIA Counter-Proliferation Division, stopped shipment into Iraq, reason for her outing ..." see WMR for connecting details.
• Federal prosecutors allege that the defendants obtained classified government reports for five years, beginning in 1999, on various issues relevant to American policy, including al-Qaeda, terrorist activities in Central Asia, the bombing of the Khobar Towers dormitory in Saudi Arabia and U.S. policy in Iran. Findlaw  Jerusalem Post, American Prospect
• Franklin would eventually plead guilty in October 2005.  CICentre also see list of books on Israeli intelligence.
• Franklin also allegedly passed a draft national security presidential directive (NSPD) on Iran to AIPAC, which then passed it to Israel. It is believed to be written by Michael Rubin (AEI) ElectronicIntifada
• What Really Happened - Israeli Spying Archives The Iraqi Jewish Archive Harold Rhode's and Judith Miller's Little Charity Project
• The probe began April 1999. Indictment   Was it intentionally leaked to the press Aug 2004? CBS News search Larry Franklin, 10+ stories , Antiwar  The cast of characters in Plamegate and AIPAC / United States v. Franklin, Rosen & Weissman are predictably similar.   "The post-9/11 decision to invade Iraq was a terrible mistake.." 
• "The Franklin indictment is a sign that [Bush adviser Karl] Rove and any other White House aide involved in the Valerie Plame/CIA leak might be vulnerable to prosecution under the Espionage Act,"  The Nation, David Corn
• Aug 2006 Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University "Kit Bond's anti-whistle blower, anti-accountability bill  ...   Senate Bill 3774 is the latest piece of legislation allegedly aimed at protecting national security. Introduced by Senator Kit Bond (R-MO), it would criminalize unauthorized disclosure of classified information. This bill is dangerously vague and provides virtually unlimited discretion to the Department of Justice in deciding whom to prosecute. It would be a catastrophe for reporters and the free press.  search AIPAC, Rosen, Weissman
• See Miller, Franklin, Gilon links and Indymedia
• Michael Ledeen is the one who leaked the information about Plame to Rove who leaked it to Novak. This means that AIPAC knew about Plame’s CIA cover. Any dimwit can guess that they got this information from Franklin who got it from his bosses Feith and Perle who both decided to resign.." Craigslist:
•   911, Brewster Jennings, Whistleblowers    
• The investigation was first led by U.S. Attorney David Szady, then transferred to U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty.  
• CBS News was tipped off about the probe and the first news of it appeared on the eve of the Republican National Convention in August 2004. Manipulated news....was the glitter of the convention overwhelming the news release? da... Forward
• When the American public finally connects (1) Plamegate, (2) the AIPAC / Franklin /Rosen / Weissman indictment and (3) Bush's 2003 State of the Union lies about Niger yellow cake, then finally we could see the resignation of Bush... and see Cooperative Research, Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group. .. and see  Common Dreams: Rendon Group, selling the war.
• How are the AIPAC and Plame/Wilson cases connected?  Larry Franklin worked for Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith (Office of Special Plans ('cooking' Iraq intelligence center) who worked with Ahmad Chalabi who worked with Judith Miller and Libby , who is protecting a leak source (Libby) in White House about Plamegate. Nation,  Answers.com, New York Times  Israel and AIPAC deny everything.  Research: Douglas Feith, Ahmad Chalabi, Miller connections.  see Wanniski Report  Findlaw
• see also Saudi Arabia connections to 9/11 and push to Iraq War.  What happened to Prince Bandar?
• Is Miller a link between AIPAC- Pentagon mole probe and Plamegate?  An important question: Was Miller 'laundering' leaks from Cheney, Libby, the National Security Council...? Propaganda was a critical component of the neocon rush to war.  Judith Miller and the New York Times were at the forefront.  And how does AIPAC, AEI, Rosen and Weissman and Israel fit into all the propaganda efforts?   Why is Miller in jail?  Who is she protecting?  Judith Miller worked for years on some basis with most of the people in both cases.  See "Judy Miller's War"  Counterpunch and also: Global Research  'Treason In High Places: Pentagon Zionists, AIPAC And Israel'. and Community Currency "Plamegate investigative reach into AIPAC / Franklin".  Antiwar Israel and 9/11, Raimondo
• Kwiatkowski: Israeli Military Generals were free to come and go at the Office Of Special Plans without the requirement to record evidence of their visits in the guest register log book. Links: ISPNews and Indymedia
• And in another event that involves Judith Miller and many of the characters in both cases:  In 2002 Fitzgerald had been investigating three Islamic charities accused of supporting terrorism __ the Holy Land Foundation, the Global Relief Foundation and the Benevolence International Foundation.  But just before his investigators could swoop in with warrants, two of the charities in question were tipped off and destroyed a lot of evidence.  Were Judith Miller and another New York Times reporter were used to launder leaks in this case?
• Another view: Cheney, the National Security Council, AIPAC, Israel were retaliating against the CIA / FBI elements that did not back their neocon Iraq intelligence lies, and retaliating for Wilson's whistleblowing by 'outing' Plame and stopping the work of Brewster Jennings Associates.  They used Rove, Miller and Novak to accomplish this.  see by Justin Raimondo, Antiwar
• Whitehouse / CIA tensions will finally surface as a factor in outing Plame,..not till Oct 2005  CBS News
• What are links between 'Franklin', Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the forged Niger yellowcake documents that former Ambassador Wilson (Plamegate) questioned?  Is Judith Miller the  'member of the media' in the Indictment  see Ledeen  Niger, forged yellowcake documents  Search net: Simone Ledeen  Washington Post Simone Ledeen, CPA, Coalition Provisional Authority, "Managing a $13 Billion Budget With No Experience", Michael Ledeen forged Niger yellowcake docs.
• What are Judith Miller's links to the Office of Special Plans (OSP, set up by Douglas Feith, #3 Pentagon) also William Luti (Cheney staffer and Near East and South Asia Policy Office, NESA) and Harold Rhode....all interviewed by FBI for passing highly classified information to the Israeli government. Washington Times
• Franklin was key link between the Defense Dept and Ahmed Chalabi (Iraqi National Congress. and  Judith Miller relied on Chalabi (INC) far all NY Times reporting on Iraq.  Judith Miller / Libby / Rove?....Plamegate. The Nation,  Answers.com, New York Times  and what are the connections to  Naor Gilon (head of the political department at the Israeli Embassy in Washington.  Juan Cole
• There is a tangled web of contacts in both cases.  A timeline can be helpful in understanding the links.
• 1940  Found to be helping finance the Nazi’s and had their assets frozen for violation of trading with the enemy act october 1942. Prescott (dumbya’s grampa) profited directly from slave labor.
• 1947. Information collected by the ADL in its spy operations on US citizens is used by the House Select Committee on Unamerican Activities. Subcommittee Chair Clare Hoffman dismisses the ADL’s reports on suspected communists as “hearsay." Actuarial Outpost
• 1948 Miller Wikipedia "(born 1948 in New York City) is a journalist for the New York Times. A controversial figure[1], Miller has garnered criticism for her false reporting on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) claims which supported the Iraq War, and both acclaim and criticism for her staunch defense of confidential sources related to the Valerie Plame scandal" other search terms: Sulzberger, Steven Rattner, Cairo bureau chief, special correspondent to Gulf crisis, 2002 Pullitzer prize.
• 1950 John Davitt, former chief of the Justice Department's internal security section notes that the Israeli intelligence service is the second most active in the United States after the Soviets. Actuarial Outpost
• 1953 See Conk Websearch, Encyclopedia entry on AIPAC, supporters, critics and quotations. Original name was American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs.
• 1954 A hidden microphone planted by the Israelis is discovered in the Office of the US Ambassador in Tel Aviv. Actuarial Outpost
• 1956 Telephone taps are found connected to two telephones in the residence of the US military attaché in Tel Aviv.
• 1954 "The Lavon Affair". Israeli agents recruit Egyptian citizens of Jewish descent to bomb Western targets in Egypt, and plant evidence to frame Arabs, in an apparent attempt to upset US-Egyptian relations. Israeli defense minister Pinchas Lavon is eventually removed from office, though many think real responsibility lay with David Ben-Gurion. Actuarial Outpost
• political deaths
• 1960 Apollo, enriched uranium, Pennsylvania. EIR
• 1964 Gulf of Tonkin (in justification for Vietnam War) study remains secret New York Times  file "The National Security Agency has kept secret since 2001 a finding by an agency historian that during the Tonkin Gulf episode, which helped precipitate the Vietnam War, N.S.A. officers deliberately distorted critical intelligence to cover up their mistakes".
• 1965 Israel apparently illegally obtains enriched uranium from NUMEC Corporation. (Washington Post, 6/5/86, Charles R. Babcock, "US an Intelligence Target of the Israelis, Officials Say.") Actuarial Outpost and Shalom Center and copy.
  Franklin Rosen Weissman, Timeline
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• flowchart
• 1970 Mueller Timeline  Richard Perle (as staff member of Henry 'Scoop' Jackson, Senate Foreign Relations Committee), picked up in wiretap of Israeli Embassy.  Discussing classified info ...  search NSC, Helmut Sonnenfeldt, 1967, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, INR.  
• 1970  "Franklin worked in the Pentagon Office of Special Plans, run by Richard Perle, at the time Perle (who was caught giving classified information to Israel back in 1970)" Arab News
• 1972 Michael Ledeen's (American Enterprise Institute,AEI) first book: "Universal Fascism", and previously studied under George Mosse, European cultural history...who "studied the manner in which fascists wan mass support not through their ideas but through mastery of public spectacle" Dual Loyalties
• 1972 Michael Ledeen was denied tenure at Washington University in St. Louis in 1972 for plagiarism Agonist
• July 1973: In an attempt to avenge the deaths of Israeli athletes slain during the 1972 Olympics, Mossad agents kill an innocent Moroccan waiter in Lillehammer, Norway. Five of the 15 agents involved in the operation serve sentences in Norwegian jails. LA Times
• 1970's  continued  Franklin        TOP
• 1976  search terms:. AIPAC, Morris Amitay, Senator Abourezk, Foreign Agents Registration Act. also Brad Gordon, Marin Feuer
• Richard Burt, boy-toy of Judith Miller, worked as national security reporter for Times from 1977-80. Ambassador to Germany. Village Voice Miller had intimate connections with Hollinger, Chicago Sun-Times.  Robert Novak, columnist for Sun-Times. 
• 1978  Paul Wolfowitz, probe dropped into his passing classified docs to AIPAC to Israeli government.  Mueller Timeline  & Washington Times
• 1978  Stephen Bryen,... DC hotel offering confidential documents to top Israeli military officials.....Richard Perle see *The Armageddon Network* (Amana Books) by Michael Saba. Shalom Center and copy
• 1978-82  Rosen was a social scientist at the Rand Corporation, was granted U.S. government Secret security clearance in 1978 and was granted a Top Secret clearance in 1979, issued by DISCO.  And granted a Secret Industrial security clearance in 1980 and completed all necessary steps for the security clearances.  The secret industrial security clearance was terminated in 1982.  Indictment and The New Yorker
• "Rosen is not merely another AIPAC official. He joined the lobby 20 years ago after the struggle over the sale of AWACS surveillance equipment to Saudi Arabia, a struggle that AIPAC lost but that put it on the map at Capitol Hill.Weissman was the organization’s top Iran expert."  Arab News
• 1978 Arab News (Jan 06) Rosen and Weissman will consider a lawsuit against AIPAC who has backed off paying their legal fees.  "One of the lawyers AIPAC hired to handle their legal defense was lawyer Nathan Lewin, the same lawyer who defended suspected Israeli spy Stephen Bryen in 1978." 
• July 31, 1979  Franklin signs Defense Intelligence Agency Secrecy Agreement  Indictment
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• Judy and the Little Tubes of Terror, by James Moore: excerpt: The timing was a thing of pure political beauty. President George W. Bush was only a few days away from speaking to the United Nations’ General Assembly about Iraq’s renewed efforts to acquire banned weaponry. And, in a month, the president was going to Congress to seek a resolution approving of a war against Iraq. A Sunday morning story, September 8, 2002, in the New York Times made the U.N. speech and the congressional debate much easier for the White House. Under the headline, “Threats and Responses: The Iraqis; U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts,” a 3603 word story by Michael R. Gordon and Judith Miller detailed the administration’s case against Saddam Hussein related to weapons of mass destruction. America was about to be scared. Citing “administration officials,” “Iraqi defectors,” and “intelligence sources,” Gordon and Miller wrote that Iraq had attempted to buy the type of aluminum tubes needed for the construction of a gas centrifuge to develop nuclear materials. [...] To create the beginnings of war hysteria and nuclear phobia, the White House Iraq Group had planned to immediately execute a tactic that created a media echo chamber. The same Sunday morning that the tubes story was splattered on the front page of the Times, the Bush administration dispatched the vice president, the national security advisor, and the secretary of state, to elevate the buzz on the network talk shows. A false story had been planted, was given credibility by a leading publication, and then the people who benefited from the one-sided information appeared on national television to corroborate the value of their bad evidence. [...]
• and Crisis Papers search: Miller
• Washington Post  Iraq's Nuclear Threat,
• 1992  How to sabotage a special prosecutor (Iran-Contra style):  Consortium News "  The notion of constraining the work of a special prosecutor by gaining control of his oversight is not unprecedented.

  After Iran-Contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh broke through a long-running White House cover-up of that scandal in 1991, Republican Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist engineered a behind-the-scenes coup against the senior judge overseeing Walsh.

  In 1992, Rehnquist ousted moderate Republican Judge George MacKinnon as chief of the three-judge panel that picked and oversaw independent counsels. MacKinnon had staunchly backed Walsh, another old-time Republican jurist, as he peeled back the secrets of the complex Iran-Contra schemes, which threatened George H.W. Bush’s reelection.

  At that key moment, Rehnquist replaced MacKinnon with Judge David Sentelle, one of President Ronald Reagan’s conservative judicial appointees and a protégé of Sen. Jesse Helms, then one of the most right-wing Republicans in the U.S. Congress