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  • AfroCubaWeb, Israeli Spying Chronology, 1990-2005 
  • Vulture Capitalist, ...beware. ... $$$ to limited hangout news.  His $$ support of  'left' sites do affect the news.  No reporting on reopening 911 investigation, Russian Israeli mob, Carnaby CIA murder in Houston.   
  • Antiwar "Cameron reported that "investigators within the DEA, INS and FBI have all told Fox News that to pursue or even suggest Israeli spying through Comverse [Verint] is considered career suicide." see Sibel Edmonds, 
  • Common Dreams, massive attack on Iran, George W. Bush is poised to order a massive aerial bombardment — possibly including tactical nuclear weapons - of up to 10,000 targets in Iran. The attack would be justified on grounds that Iran is interfering with U.S. efforts in Iraq and that Iran is developing a nuclear weapon, a charge that was debunked last fall in the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE)
  • Corrente Cheney shadow government, Iran Attack, Saudi
  • EIR Office of Special Plans, shadow government, Libby, and EIR X-Committee, 
  • Global Security
  • Greenleft search
  • Green Party of Iran news archives, statements, platform, links
  • Conciliation Resources
  • In These Times a Progressive magazine published 24 times a year, left of center. search Iran.
  • Iran Students News Agency, ISNA
  • Islamic Iran Participation Front shut down? Iran Press link
  • Insider Iran Oil Bourse
  • International Solidarity Mission
  • Islamic Voice, Progressive Islam
  • KillTown  Office of Naval Intelligence, entire chain of command  killed on 9/11, ONI, budgets, auditors, monitoring war games, realized were a ruse to attack New York City, exterminated.  Naval operations officers, Navy intelligence,
  • The Nation, The Big Chill
  • Mapreport World Spy Timeline
  • MidEastWeb Timeline of Palestinian Israeli History and the Israel-Arab Conflict
  • Nuclear Free  9/11 attacks result of deliberate planning by identifiable....100 Israeli covert operatives were functioning inside the United States just before and during the attacks. Some of these operatives were placed in extremely close proximity to four of the 9/11 hijackers in South Florida and San Diego
  • OpenDemocracy
  • Rense / EIR  Chronology Of The Israeli Pentagon Spy Case The Crimes Of Iran-Contra Have Never Ended By Jeffrey Steinberg Executive Intelligence Review
  • RumorMillNews  reprint Antiwar article, search terms: Clinton stopped from pardoning Pollard, 
  • TalkLeft, John Yoo, torture memo, and  more below  Bush has built a secret system, without enabling legislation, justified by executive fiat and presidential findings alone, deliberately operating beyond the oversight of Congress and the courts, and existing outside the law. It is a national security state of torture, ghost detainees, secret prisons, renditions and domestic eavesdropping.
  • Union of Concerned Scientists,  
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  • WayneMadsenReport
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  • Xiaodong People Israeli companies suspected of spying
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    • WayneMadsenReport has learned from knowledgeable sources that the imbroglio between Israel and the United States over the arrest of 84-year old accused Israeli spy Ben-Ami Kadish is part of an overall rift between Iran war hawks and opponents of a war with Iran in both the U.S. and Israeli governments.
    • WayneMadsenReport, Common Dreams preparations and indications of an attack:
    • Bush justification: Iran interfering in Iraq, nuclear weapons program
    • Fallon and Stufflebeem ousted, (voiced opposition to attack); warships moved to Lebanon positions; Israeli attack on Syria facility to test anti-aircraft defenses; Israel conducting largest ever military exercises (Apr 08); Saudi comments on nuclear / radioactive hazards; Scott Ritter reports on bunker-buster deliveries in Apr 08;  but monsoons will affect date; Minot Barksdale nuclear transfer incident; ICBM fuses to Taiwan forced a Bush personal acknowledgement; Gates ordered nuclear arsenal inventory; 
    • A nuclear attack would kill 3 million Iranians.  
     
  • Findlaw Kadish charges, FBI Special Agent, Lance A. Ashworth,  Magistrate Judge Douglas F. Eaton, 
  • ChristUSrex on 
  • Guardian, Mideast Timeline
  • MIA.org.il
  • Middle Eastern Reference Chronology of Events in the Middle East from 1967 to 1990
  • Rocky Mountain News WMD 
  • United Jerusalem Mega Israeli spy  investigation quietly dropped. see Franklin, Rosen, Weissman   
  • Xiaodon People  blog, Xiaodong People Israeli companies suspected of spying, Odigo, Israeli business scandal, illicit surveillance software to steal competitor info, victims: Ace Hardware, Globes Business Daily,  Hewlett-Packard.  Trojan Horse scandal, Cellcom,
  • Wikipedia, Ben-Ami Kadish, US citizen, conspiracy charges,  specter of a fifth column. ..
  • Zionism Month Eweb TimeLine of Zionism, Israeli and Palestinian? History and the Conflict
  • notes: Yossi Yagur  Yagur was part of an Israeli organization whose task it was to acquire technology to support and update the Dimona reactor.  .  and Maverick News  The BSR grew out of Israel's nuclear activities, the secret construction of the Dimona reactor, and until 1981 was headed by Benjamin Bloomberg. Defense Minister Ariel Sharon replaced Bloomberg with Rafi Eitan, a former Mossad officer and an adviser to prime minister Menachem Begin on counterterrrorism. Eitan resigned after it emerged that BSR was involved in the Pollard affair."  ...  (Kadish fallout) This is known to Colonel (res.) Aviam Sela, who was involved in the recruitment of Jonathan Pollard (a U.S. citizen jailed for spying for Israel), and Yaakov Nimrodi who was involved in the "Irangate" affair (the sale of weapons to Iran). Both of these men fear arrest in the United States should they travel there.  Israelmatsav
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  • Haaretz  ...Court document   American Spying for Israel ...   CC-1 (Co-conspirator 1,  Yossi Yagur) was an Israeli attaché to the NY consulate. He asked a Jewish American, Ben-Ami Kadish, to obtain documents from his place of work, the Army's Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center in Dover, N.J. Kadish's handler is the same man who handled spy Jonathan Pollard, who is now serving a life sentence. ... This handler is probably Yossi Yagur, a science attaché to the consulate at the time. The handler, the court documents say, left the U.S. in the year 1985, but did not abstain from contacting Kadish in the following years. The last documented conversation between the two was in March of this year.  2. The secrets: Kadish, if the court documents are to be believed, was a spy. He got a shopping list from CC-1, photocopied the requested documents, and handed them to CC-1. The court documents do not specify the detailed nature of the information Kadish was delivering, but we do know some of it was linked to "nuclear weaponry", to "F-15 fighter jet that the United states has sold to another country", to "major weapons system". and file
  • Wikipedia "The Israeli worker, identified in the charges only as "Co-conspirator 1" ("CC-1"), is allegedly the handler is an Israeli citizen who was employed by the defense contractor Israeli Aircraft Industries in Israel in the 1970s before consul for science affairs at the Israeli Consulate General in Manhattan from July 1980 through November 1985. Navy civilian intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard was charged and convicted in connection with espionage after providing information to the same Israeli worker.  ... Yagur, along with his Washington, D.C.-based counterpart Ilan Ravid, was recalled by Israel in November 1985 and has not returned to the United States. The government alleges Kadish kept in contact with the Yagur until last month, when Yagur instructed Kadish to lie to investigators."
  • TalkLeft John Yoo, torture memo:  In the March 14, 2003 memo, Yoo says the Constitution was not in play with regard to the interrogations because the Fifth Amendment (which provides for due process of law) and the Eighth Amendment (which prevents the government from employing cruel and usual punishment) does "not extend to alien enemy combatants held abroad.": The memo goes on to explain that federal criminal statutes regarding assault and other crimes against the body don't apply to authorized military interrogations overseas and that statutes that do apply to the conduct of U.S. officials abroad pertaining to war crimes and torture establish a limited obligation on the part of interrogators to refrain from bodily harm.  The memo also says the Geneva Conventions don't apply al-Qaida and the Taliban. [More...]
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  • WMR has learned from knowledgeable sources that the imbroglio between Israel and the United States over the arrest of 84-year old accused Israeli spy Ben-Ami Kadish is part of an overall rift between Iran war hawks and opponents of a war with Iran in both the U.S. and Israeli governments."  more search terms: double-cross, Tenet resignation, sleeper cells in US, moles, 75 boxes of classified documents returned, Naval Investigative Service, Reagan, Pollard, commutation, pardon, Mega, espionage ring, Connecticut, Zionist.
  • NewsMax "The spy ring enabled criminals to use reverse wiretaps against U.S. intelligence and law enforcement operations. The illegal monitoring may have resulted in the deaths of several informants and reportedly spoiled planned anti-drug raids on crime syndicates."
  • Wired News, Mark Klein, "Whistleblower Outs NSA Spy Room  ... Klein's job eventually included connecting internet circuits to a splitting cabinet that led to the secret room. During the course of that work, he learned from a co-worker that similar cabinets were being installed in other cities, including Seattle, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego."
  • See Franklingate.com for Israeli spy operations in the U.S. in the 1980's and how they changed after Jonathon Pollard.  Israeli spies in the Pentagon existed to facilitate Middle East regime change policy.  Planning for the invasion of Iraq started in the 90's and was carried out by a joint Bush / Israeli effort.  AIPAC knew that Iraqi WMD was not a credible threat. Asia Times file and Lockheed-Martin page
  • Israel Spies
  • 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 Judith 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
  • 1963 Ben-Ami Kadish was employed as a mechanical engineer by the  Wikipedia United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center at the Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, New Jersey from October 1963 to January 1990
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 1979 ... The charges allege that Kadish conspired to disclose national defense-related documents to Israel and worked as agent of the Israeli government from 1979 to 1985
  • 1985 Jonathan Pollard arrested by US authorities for spying for Israel. He was ultimately sentenced to life imprisonment
  • 1980 The Israeli worker (Yossi Yagur), identified in the charges only as "Co-conspirator 1" ("CC-1"), is allegedly the handler is an Israeli citizen who was employed by the defense contractor Israeli Aircraft Industries in Israel in the 1970s before consul for science affairs at the Israeli Consulate General in Manhattan from July 1980 through November 1985.  Secret, Top Secret, Confidential, Sensitive Compartmented Information, Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals, Classified Document Accountability Record, Restricted Data, 
  • 1985 Oct. Israeli F-16 bomb PLO HQ in Tunis, killing 56 Palestinians & 15 Tunisians. Info ‘stolen’ from US Naval Security & Investigative Command by Israeli spy. Action backed by Reagan who initially calls this a legitimate response to terrorism (later retracted -?).
  • Xiaodon People  blog, Xiaodong People Israeli companies suspected of spying, Odigo, Israeli business scandal, illicit surveillance software to steal competitor info, victims: Ace Hardware, Globes Business Daily,  Hewlett-Packard.  Trojan Horse scandal, Cellcom,
  • 1999  Clinton White House phones tapped, Monica Lewinsky
  • 1998, Franklin Rosen Weissman NFU research
  • 1998 WRMEA A Swiss court issued a one-year suspended sentence to an Israeli Mossad agent caught in 1998 trying to install wiretapping equipment on the telephone of a Swiss Lebanese living in a suburb of the capital, Bern. After shaking hands with each of the five judges, the pseudonymous Issac Bental left immediately for Israel.
  • 2000 July: A Revolutionary Court in Shiraz convicted 10 of 13 Iranian Jews of spying for Israel, sentencing them to prison terms ranging from 4 to 13 years. Two Iranian Muslims were convicted of aiding the spy ring and sentenced to two and four years in prison. Three Jewish and two Muslim defendants were acquitted. WRMEA
  • 2000 July Along with Malcolm Hoenlein, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish organizations, relatives of some of the Iranian Jews convicted of spying for Israel held an hour-long White House meeting with President Clinton and his aides to discuss ways to pressure Tehran for their release. WRMEA
  • 2000 July   Tehran issued an arrest warrant for accused Israeli spy ring leader Eshaq Belanas, an Iranian Jew who fled his country nine years ago, possibly to the U.S. WRMEA
  • 2000 Aug. 21: Lt. Col. Jeremiah Mattysse, located at an Isreali hostel, met with U.S. diplomats and Israeli police for more than three hours, saying afterwards, “I’m not a spy.” WRMEA
  • What has stopped Cheney from attacking Iran?
  • 2001 Cryptome  'art' students, Israeli spies. Suspicious activities involving Israeli art students at DEA facilities and mirror fox_il_spy
  • 2001 Antiwar  Richard Sale reported for UPI that "In 2001, the FBI discovered new, 'massive' Israeli spying operations in the East Coast, including New York and New Jersey," and they began watching Gilon, who eventually led them to Franklin." The Jewish Telegraphic Agency dates the beginning of the inquiry at precisely that crucial juncture: "Information garnered during the investigation into alleged leaks from a Pentagon analyst to the two former AIPAC staffers suggests the FBI began probing AIPAC officials just before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
  • 2001 According to Newsweek reporter Mark Hosenball, who interviewed Ghorbanifar in Paris in November 2003, ``Ghorbanifar, a former Iranian spy who helped launch the Iran-Contra affair, says one of the things he discussed with Defense officials Harold Rhode and Larry Franklin, at meetings in Rome in December 2001 (and in Paris last June with only Rhode), was regime change in Iran.  Rense
  • 2001 NewsMax Spies Tap Phones and copy, Amdocs, Comverse Infosys, CALEA wiretaps and  copy  "The spy ring reportedly includes employees of two Israeli-owned companies that currently perform almost all the official wiretaps for U.S. local, state and federal law" Amdocs, Comverse Infosys?. Middle Eastern Reference
  • 2002 THE INFAMOUSLY CENSORED FOX NEWS CARL CAMERON FOUR-PART REPORT: see NFU Amdocs page 2
  • 2004 August 29    It is revealed the FBI is investigating a suspected Israeli spy deep in the Pentagon, who have may have fed secrets about US policy on Iran to Israel. Israel insists it maintains a ban on spying in the US.  see Rosen Weissman AIPAC ... NFU research page
  • 2004 CNN  A defiant Mordechai Vanunu has calmly walked out of prison after serving 18 years for spilling Israeli nuclear secrets to a British newspaper.
  • 2004  Antiwar   The Israeli spy network embedded in our government is deeply burrowed into the neoconservative apparatus that lied us into war. Exhibit A: the Office of Special Plans. At least two Pentagon employees engaged in this cherry-picking "intelligence" unit set up by former assistant secretary of defense Douglas Feith were reportedly under investigation "on suspicion that one of them passed highly classified U.S. military information to the government of Israel, according to federal law enforcement officials." This was the outfit that promoted fraudster Ahmed Chalabi and utilized his phony "evidence" of Iraqi WMDs to goad the U.S. into war. Chalabi, it turned out, was passing U.S. secrets to Tehran – including the fact that the Americans had broken the Iranian code. Espionage surrounds the neocons like a cloud of smoke, and has for years. There's got to be some fire there.
  • 2005 Xiaodon People  blog, Xiaodong People Israeli companies suspected of spying, Odigo, Israeli business scandal, illicit surveillance software to steal competitor info, victims: Ace Hardware, Globes Business Daily,  Hewlett-Packard.  Trojan Horse scandal, Cellcom,
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  • 2004 Dec  The Egyptian government frees a convicted Israeli spy in a demonstration of goodwill that leaders hope will lead to progress on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel releases six Egyptians who illegally crossed the border with the aim of capturing an Israeli tank.
  • 2006 CNN  If confirmed by the Senate, Hayden would replace Porter Goss, who abruptly resigned the CIA post earlier Friday after losing what intelligence sources described as a power struggle with Negroponte.  Hayden was director of the National Security Agency in 2001 when Bush authorized a controversial program allowing the agency to monitor the communications of people inside the United States who were in contact with suspected terrorists overseas without first obtaining a warrant.  see also Negroponte and Iran Contra Reagan, Franklin Cover-up Scandal, Franklin Scandal Omaha, gay prostitutes in the White House, Jeff Gannon, Johnny Gosch.
  • Apr 2007   Antiwar "Is the Media Sabotaging the AIPAC Spy Trial? by Grant F. Smith  ... The stakes in the AIPAC espionage case could not be higher. The AIPAC espionage case, if it comes to trial, could redefine the role of lobbies, the mainstream press, and think-tanks operating in Washington, D.C. It is not yet clear whether average Americans approve of Washington's hidden world of selective third-party disclosure and trafficking in classified information. It is also not known whether selectively disclosed and leveraged classified information fed to the "free press" has played a wider, unknown role in promoting misguided war, wasteful military spending, and perpetuating the influence of the Israel lobby and see NFU AIPA
  • Jan 2008  Bush met with two of the most extreme members of the Israeli government, anti-Arab Moldovan Jewish racist Avigdor Lieberman and Rafi Eitan, the Israeli intelligence control officer for convicted and jailed-for-life Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. While in Israel, Bush was pressed by Israeli leaders to pardon Pollard or commute his sentence to time served." WayneMadsenReport
  • Jan. 2008 Israel launches an advanced spy satellite. The TECSAR satellite fabricated by Israel Aerospace Industries is equipped with a SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) payload that gives it the ability to see through clouds and carry out day and night all weather imaging and reconnaissance.  NTI
  • Apr 2008 Haaretz    Kadish was charged with four counts: one count of conspiring to disclose documents related to the national defense of the United States to the Government of Israel; one count of conspiring to act as an agent of the Government of Israel; one count of conspiring to hinder a communication to a law enforcement officer; and one count of conspiring to make a materially false statement to a law enforcement officer.

 

 

Iran Attack?
AIPAC, Cheney research Minot Barksdale nuclear transfer research
 Dov Zakheim (& Cheney), research:  Mastermind of 9/11? ...  remote controlled aircraft and 9/11? former Pentagon Comptroller, $2.3 Trillion 'missing',  dual Israeli / US citizen,  more below
 
Indictment - Cast of Characters      MORE
  FO-1 Rafi Barak jpost   DoD Emp A Douglas Feith?  
FO-2  ?   jpost DoD Emp B Harold Rhode?
FO-3 Naor Gilon   jpost foreign country Israel?
USGO-1 Kenneth Pollack  Jewish Times reporter? Glen Kessler?
USGO-2 David Satterfield   jpost D.C. think tank AIPAC? AEI?
another.. Howard Kohr  jta Unnamed Woman  Judith Miller    SW-Asia

             Go Back to Plamegate   Go Back to AIPAC

 

 

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Indictment
Reference   Franklin, Rosen, Weissman top
PROGRESSIVE REFERENCE CONSERVATIVE
  • Findlaw Louis Klarevas, Pentagon Leak case comparison to Valerie Plame identity leak case.  
  • ChristUSrex on Naor Gilon, Pentagon Officer's Athletic Club
  • Rocky Mountain News WMD Bush deception timeline
  • AEI American Enterprise Institute
  • AIPAC American Israel PAC
  • Jewish Times Kenneth Pollack id as one of two US Government officials USGO-1, USGO-2
  • Jewish Times Kenneth Pollack is a regular commentator on CNN
  • ThomasMC.com Watch This Spy Story
source: Global Security   and original pdf file

 

SUPERSEDING INDICTMENT


AUGUST 2005 TERM - AT ALEXANDRIA

THE GRAND JURY CHARGES THAT:

General Allegations

 

At all times material to this indictment:

1. Defendant LAWRENCE ANTHONY FRANKLIN was employed by the United States government at the Department of Defense (DoD) in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), International Security Affairs (ISA), Office of Near East and South Asia, Office of Northern Gulf Affairs, Iran desk, and held a Top Secret security clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI). FRANKLIN'S office was located within the Pentagon, in the Eastern District of Virginia. FRANKLIN was also a Colonel in the United States Air Force Reserve (USAFR).

2. Throughout his employment with the United States government, FRANKLIN repeatedly signed written agreements acknowledging his duty to safeguard classified information:

On or about July 31, 1979, FRANKLIN signed a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Secrecy Agreement, by which he acknowledged that he would never divulge any classified information relating to the national security without prior consent of the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency or his designated representative. FRANKLIN further acknowledged that the burden was his to ascertain whether information is classified and who is authorized to receive it. FRANKLIN acknowledged that he had read and understood the provisions of the Espionage Act, including 18 U.S.C. § 793, 794 and 798.

On or about December 8, 1999, FRANKLIN signed a Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement, a Standard Form 312 (SF­312). In that document FRANKLIN acknowledged that he was aware that the unauthorized disclosure of classified information by him could cause irreparable injury to the United States or could be used to advantage by a foreign nation and that he would never divulge classified information to an unauthorized person. He further acknowledged that he would never divulge classified information unless he had officially verified that the recipient was authorized by the United States to receive it. Additionally, he agreed that if he was uncertain about the classification status of information, he was required to confirm from an authorized official that the information is unclassified before he could disclose it.

 

On or about June S, 2001, FRANKLIN orally attested that he fully understood his responsibility to protect national security information and would adhere to the provisions of the SF-312. By doing so, FRANKLIN again acknowledged that he was aware that the unauthorized disclosure of classified information by hire could cause irreparable injury to the United States yr could be used to advantage by a foreign nation and that he would never divulge classified information to an unauthorized person. He again acknowledged that he would never divulge classified information unless he had officially verified that the recipient was authorized by the United States to receive it. Additionally, he again agreed that if he was uncertain about the classification status of information, he was required to confirm from an authorized official that the information is unclassified before he could disclose it. He again acknowledged that any unauthorized disclosure of classified information by him may constitute a violation, or violations of criminal laws, including 18 U.S.C. § 793, 794 and 798 and 50 U.S.C. § 783. On or about July 17, 2001, FRANKLIN signed an SCI Nondisclosure Statement in conjunction with his employment at the DoD/OSD. FRANKLIN acknowledged that he was granted access to classified information protected as SCI and that he received a security indoctrination addressing the nature and protection of SCI information. In this document, FRANKLIN again acknowledged that he had been advised that the unauthorized disclosure of SCI by him could cause irreparable injury to the United States or be used to advantage by a foreign nation‑ He agreed he would never divulge anything marked as SCI or that he knew to be SCI to anyone who is not authorized to receive it without prior written authorization from the United States government. He acknowledged that he was obligated by law and regulation not to disclose any classified information in an unauthorized fashion. FRANKLIN again acknowledged that unauthorized disclosure of that information "may constitute violations of United States criminal laws, including the provisions of Sections 793, 794, 798, and 952, Title 18, United States Code."

 

3. At no time was FRANKLIN authorized to release classified information to co­-defendants ROSEN and WEISSMAN, except with respect to Overt Acts 43 and 44 in Count One. At no time was FRANKLIN ever authorized to de‑classify classified information.

4. Defendant STEVEN J. ROSEN was employed as the Director of Foreign Policy Issues for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington, D.C. ROSEN was hired by AIPAC in or about July 1982. AIPAC, according to its website, is " America's ProIsrael Lobby." AIPAC lobbies the U.S. Congress and Executive Branch agencies on various issues related to Israel and U.S. Foreign policy in the Middle East. As the Director of Foreign Policy Issues, ROSEN lobbied on behalf of AIPAC, primarily with officials within the Executive Branch of the U.S. government. During the time period of this indictment, ROSEN did not have a U.S. government security clearance and was not authorized to receive or possess U.S. government classified information.

5. From 1978‑1982, ROSEN was a Social Scientist at the RAND Corporation (BAND) in Santa Monica, California. ROSEN was initially granted a U.S. government Secret security clearance on or about August 31, 1978, for his work at RAND. ROSEN was later authorized to hold a Top Secret U.S. government security clearance on or about July 18, 1979. These clearances were issued by the Defense Industrial Security Clearance Organization (DISCO), which processes security clearances for U.S. government contractors.

6. Based upon the Top Secret security clearance granted to ROSEN by DISCO on July 18, 1979, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) granted ROSEN a Secret Industrial security clearance on July 17, 1980 for CIA contracts on which he would work while at RAND Corporation. On August $, 1980, ROSEN signed the requisite U.S. government secrecy agreement (Form 10‑71 1 060). In that document, ROSEN acknowledged that he had read and understood the provisions of the espionage laws (sections 793, 794 and 798 of Title 18, United States Code) concerning the disclosure of information relating to the national defense and that he was familiar with the penalties provided for any violation thereof. Additionally, he agreed that he would never divulge, publish or reveal either by word, conduct, or any other means, such information or intelligence unless specifically authorized to do so by an authorized representative of the U.S. government. Further, ROSEN indicated he understood that this agreement would remain binding upon him after termination of his relationship with the U.S. government. ROSEN's Secret Industrial security clearance for work on the CIA contracts was terminated on or about July 6, I 982.

7. Defendant KEITH WEISSMAN was employed as the Senior Middle East Analyst in the Foreign Policy Issues department at AIPAC. WEISSMAN was lured by AIPAC in 1993. While employed at AIPAC, WEISSMAN worked closely with STEVEN ROSEN in lobbying on behalf of AIPAC, primarily with officials within the Executive Branch of the U.S. government. WEISSMAN did not have a U.S. government security clearance and was not authorized to receive or possess U.S. government classified information.

8. Pursuant to Executive Order 12958, as amended by Executive Order 13292, national security information is classified as "Top Secret," "Secret" or "Confidential" The designation "Top Secret" applies to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security. The designation "Secret" applies to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause serious damage to national security. The designation "Confidential" applies to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause damage to national security. Access to classified information at any level may be further restricted through compartmentation in SCI categories. Classified information, of any designation, may only be shared with persons determined by an appropriate U.S. government official to be eligible for access to classified information, who have signed an approved non‑disclosure agreement and who possess a need to know. If a person is not eligible to receive classified information, classified information may not be .disclosed to that person.


 
COUNT ONE

Conspiracy to communicate National Defense Information
 

THE GRAND JURY FURTHER CHARGES THAT:

Between in or about April 1999 and continuing until on or about August 27, 2004, in the Eastern District of Virginia and elsewhere, defendants LAWRENCE ANTHONY FRANKLIN, STEVEN J. ROSEN, and KEITH WEISSMAN did unlawfully, knowingly and willfully conspire, confederate and agree together and with others, known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to commit the following offenses against the United State s:

Znet, Robert Dreyfus, on "about April 1999and continuing"

1) having lawful possession of, access to, and control over information relating to the national defense, did willfully communicate, deliver and transmit that information directly and indirectly to a person or persons not entitled to receive it, having reason to believe that said information could be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of arty foreign nation, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 793(d); and

2) having unauthorized possession of, access to, and control over information relating to the national defense, did willfully communicate, deliver and transmit that information directly and indirectly to a person or persons not entitled to receive it, having reason to believe that said information could be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of any foreign nation, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 793(e).

 

WAYS, MANNER AND MEANS OF THE CONSPIRACY

A. It was part of the conspiracy that, in an effort to influence persons within and outside the United States government, ROSEN and WEISSMAN would cultivate relationships with FRANKLIN and others and would use their contacts within the U.S. government and elsewhere to gather sensitive U.S. government information, including classified information relating to the national defense, for subsequent unlawful communication, delivery and transmission to persons not entitled to receive it.

B. It was further part of the conspiracy that FRANKLIN would use his position as a desk officer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense to bather information relating to the national defense, for subsequent unlawful communication, delivery and transmission to ROSEN and WEISSMAN and others not entitled to receive it.

C. It was further part of the conspiracy that FRANKLIN, ROSEN and WEISSMAN would meet at locations in the Eastern District of Virginia and elsewhere, to exchange information, including classified information relating to the national defense.

D. It was further part of the conspiracy that FRANKLIN would unlawfully deliver, communicate and transmit classified national defense information in an effort to advance his own personal foreign policy agenda and influence persons within and outside the United States government.

E. It was further part of the conspiracy that ROSEN and WEISSMAN, without lawful authority, would communicate to persons not entitled to receive it, classified information relating to the national defense.

 

OVERT ACTS
In furtherance of the conspiracy and to effect the object thereof, defendants FRANKLIN, ROSEN, and WEISSMAN did commit overt acts in the; Eastern District of Virginia and elsewhere, including but not limited to the following:

1. On or about April 13, 1999, ROSEN had a conversation with Foreign Official 1 (FO-1) and told FO-1 that he (ROSEN) had "picked up alt extremely sensitive piece of intelligence" which ROSEN described as codeword protected intelligence. ROSEN then disclosed to FO-1 national defense information concerning terrorist activities in Central Asia.

2. On or about May 12, 1999, ROSEN and FO-1 met for lunch and further discussed the disclosure ROSEN made on April 13, 1999.

3. On or about June 11, 1999, WEISSMAN had a conversation with FO-1 and told FO-1 that a "Secret FBI, classified FBI report" on the Khobar Towers bombing had been prepared and that he (WEISSMAN) had gotten this information from three different sources, including United States government officials.

FO-1 not known, but the country is Israel, and officials were from the Israeli Embassy, one was Naor Gilon, Embassies chief political officer, and three other Israeli officials who may have been part of spy cell.  source: Etherzone

4. On or about June 11, 1999 , WEISSMAN had another conversation with FO-1 and told FO-1 that he (WEISSMAN) had gotten a member of the media interested in the above referenced classified FBI report on the Khobar Towers bombing

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5. On or about December 12, 2000, ROSEN and WEISSMAN met with a United States government official (USGO-1). Following the meeting, ROSEN had a conversation with a member of the media to whom he gave information about classified United States strategy options against a Middle Eastern country and the internal United Stales government deliberations on those options. USGO-1, with whom ROSEN and WEISSMAN met, had access to the classified information ROSEN disclosed.

NucNews search David Satterfield, Lebanon, Blue Line, Chebaa Farms area.

New York Times  article:  David Satterfield, deputy chief of the United States Mission in Bhagdad, is USGO-2.  In early 2002 Satterfield discussed secret national security matters in two meetings with Steven J. Rosen.  The meetings were Jan 18, 2002 and March 12, 2002. Thee meetings were confirmed by classified documents.  The indictment does not accuse Satterfield of any wrongdoing....he is the first high ranking official to be caught up in Franklin Rosen Weissman.

6. On or about January 18, 2002, ROSEN met with another United States government official (USGO-2). After the meeting and on that same day, a memorandum containing information ROSEN had obtained from USGO-2 was sent to fellow AIPAC employees. The memorandum contained classified information provided by USGO-2.

7. On or about January 23, 2002, ROSEN had a conversation with a foreign national and disclosed classified information provided to ROSEN by USGO-2 during their January 18, 2042 meeting.

8. On or about March 12, 2002, ROSEN and USGO-2 met and discussed classified information regarding Al  Qaeda.

9. On or about March 13, 2002, ROSEN disclosed to a fellow AIPAC employee classified information regarding Al Qaeda that had been provided by USGO-2.

10. On or about March 14, 2002, ROSEN met with Foreign Official 2 (FO-2) and disclosed classified information regarding Al Qaeda, previously provided by USGO-2 on March 12, 2002.

11. On or about August 5, 2002, ROSEN called a Department of Defense employee (DoD employee A) at the Pentagon and asked for the name of someone in OSD ISA with an expertise on Iran and was given the name of defendant LAWRENCE FRANKLIN.  Antiwar on Naor Gilon

12. On or about August 15, 2002, after FRANKLIN called ROSEN and left a message saying that he had heard that ROSEN was interested in issues concerning Iran, ROSEN called FRANKLIN and left his cell phone number and said he would like to meet.

13. On or about August 20, 2002 , FRANKLIN and ROSEN spoke on the telephone and arranged to meet the next day. ROSEN advised that he was bringing his colleague, KEITH WEISSMAN.

14. On or about August 21, 2002, FRANKLIN called ROSEN, and they agreed to postpone their meeting. FRANKLIN advised ROSEN that he had seven or eight issues he wanted to discuss with him, and the issues were not limited to Iran.

15. On or about February 7, 2003, FRANKLIN and a DoD employee (DoD employee B) agreed to meet with ROSEN and WEISSMAN.

  • Antiwar on "Pentagon guy", "real insider"

16. On or about February 12, 2003, in a telephone conversation with another individual while en route to the meeting with FRANKLIN, ROSEN stated that he was excited to meet with a "Pentagon guy" because this person was a "real insider."

17. On or about February 12, 2003, FRANKLIN, DoD employee B, ROSEN, and WEISSMAN met for breakfast at a restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, whereupon FRANKLIN disclosed to ROSEN and WEISSMAN national defense information relating to a classified draft internal United States government policy document concerning a Middle Eastern country. FRANKLIN told ROSEN and WEISSMAN that he had also prepared a separate document in connection with this policy document.

18. On or about February 12, 2003, ROSEN and WEISSMAN discussed the information FRANKLIN had given as it related to a draft article written by a journalist concerning United States foreign policy toward a country in the Middle East. ROSEN questioned the accuracy of the journalist's information.

19. On or about February 14, 2003, FRANKLIN and ROSEN discussed FRANKLIN's prospects far a position on the National Security Council (NSC) staff, and ROSEN told FRANKLIN that by working at the NSC that he would be "by the elbow of the President." FRANKLIN asked ROSEN to "put in a good word" for him, and ROSEN said, "I'll do what I can." ROSEN ended the conversation by telling FRANKLIN that he hoped they would keep in touch and that breakfast was a real "eye‑opener."

20. On or about March 7, 2003, ROSEN called FRANKLIN at the Pentagon and arranged to meet early one morning at Union Station, in Washington, D.C.

21. On or about March 10, 2003, FRANKLIN ROSEN and WEISSMAN met at Union Station early in the morning. In the course of the meeting, the three men moved from one restaurant to another restaurant and then finished the meeting in an empty restaurant,

22. On or about March 12, 2003, FRANKLIN called ROSEN from his office in the Pentagon and left a message saying that he was trying to fax a document to ROSEN and WEISSMAN but was unable to do so and wanted to make sure ROSEN was present to receive it.

 

23. On or about March 13, 2003, FRANKLIN spoke with ROSEN and was provided with ROSEN's home fax number. FRANKLIN told ROSEN that he preferred to send the fax to ROSEN's residence.

24. On or about March 13, 2003, ROSEN met FO-2, who was assigned to a foreign embassy in Washington, D.C. ROSEN disclosed to FO-2 information related to the classified draft internal United States government policy document that he had discussed with FRANKLIN. ROSEN also told FO-2 about the internal deliberations of United States government officials concerning the policy document that FRANKLIN had disclosed to ROSEN and WEISSMAN.

25. On or about March 13, 2003, after his breakfast with FO-2, ROSEN had a conversation with FO-1, who was from the same embassy as FO-2. ROSEN asked FO-1 if he had heard, from FO-2, "the interesting report" he had given him concerning the classified draft internal policy document. ROSEN then discussed the specifics in the document with FO-1. ROSEN and FO-1 also discussed whether a specific United States government official was aware of this information and how the deliberations would proceed.

 

26. On or about March 13, 2003 , WEISSMAN had a separate conversation with FO-1. WEISSMAN asked FO-1, "Have you talked to Steve about Iran lately?" WEISSMAN related that "we" had heard from a "friend of ours in the Pentagon" about a national intelligence document‑ WEISSMAN discussed specifics about the classified draft internal policy document and the internal deliberations of United States government officials.

27. On yr about March 13, 2003 , ROSEN disclosed to a senior fellow at a Washington, D.C. think tank the information relating to the classified draft internal policy document concerning a Middle Eastern country and the internal deliberations of United States government officials that had been provided to ROSEN by FRANKLIN. ROSEN disclosed details from the document and encouraged the official to use his contacts to investigate further. The senior fellow advised ROSEN that he would follow up and see what he could do.

28. On or about March 17, 2003 , FRANKLIN faxed, from the Pentagon to ROSEN's office fax machine, a document he had typed himself. The contents of this document appeared in the classified appendix to the classified draft internal policy document FRANKLIN had previously discussed with ROSEN and WEISSMAN on February 12, 2003 .

29. On or about March 18, 2003 , in a conversation with a member of the media about the classified draft internal policy document, ROSEN stated, "I'm not supposed to know this," and that it was a "considerable story." He encouraged the member of the media to pursue the story.

30. On or about May 30, 2003 , in a conversation with another member of the media, ROSEN discussed the classified draft internal policy document and internal United States government deliberations about the document.

31. On or about June 3, 2003 , WEISSMAN called FRANKLIN and left a message. Without naming the country, he said that he and ROSEN wanted to meet and talk about "our favorite country."

32. On or about June 24,2003 , WEISSMAN called FRANKLIN and asked FRANKLIN to obtain a document for him. While the document itself was not classified, WEISSMAN told FRANKLIN that he knew "the Agency" had a copy. FRANKLIN told WEISSMAN he would try to get WEISSMAN a copy and that he had a friend at the CIA if he could not get it anywhere else.

 

33. On or about June 24, 2003 , ROSEN and WEISSMAN talked about arranging to have lunch with FRANKLIN .

34. On or about June 26, 2003 , FRANKLIN, ROSEN and WEISSMAN met for lunch at a restaurant in Arlington , Virginia . FRANKLIN told ROSEN, "You set the agenda." ROSEN stated that he knew that "the constraints" under which FRANKLIN met with them were difficult. The three discussed the previously described classified draft internal policy document, as well as a newspaper article which described the document as classified, and the state of internal United States government deliberations.

35. On or about June 26, 2003 , during the aforementioned meeting, FRANKLIN disclosed to ROSEN and WEISSMAN classified information related to potential attacks upon United States forces in Iraq. FRANKLIN told ROSEN and WEISSMAN that the information was "highly classified" and asked them not to use it.

36. On or about June 26, 2003, ROSEN and WEISSMAN spoke about the luncheon they had earlier attended with FRANKLIN. ROSEN specifically noted the information FRANKLIN had identified as highly classified and stated that it was "quite a story." ROSEN also told WEISSMAN, "Well, look, it seems to me that this channel is one to keep wide open insofar as possible." WEISSMAN replied that he was taking FRANKLIN to a baseball game. ROSEN replied, "Smart guy. That's the thing to do."

37. On or about June 30, 2003, WEISSMAN and FRANKLIN, together, attended a major league baseball game in Baltimore, Maryland.

38. On or about October 24, 2003, FRANKLIN and Foreign Official 3 (FO-3) had a telephone conversation during which they discussed the status of the previously described classified draft internal policy document. FO-3 said he had information that work on the "policy" had stopped, and FRANKLIN confirmed that there had been "nothing on any calendar in regard to that" document.

39. On or about May 21, 2004, FRANKLIN verbally provided to reporters from a national news organization Top Secret/SCI national defense information concerning meetings involving two Middle Eastern officials. Shortly thereafter, the news organization, quoting FRANKLIN, broadcast a report that an unidentified source had specified that the U.S. government had obtained intelligence pertaining to these meetings and further provided details based on information FRANKLIN had supplied to the reporters.

40. On yr about June 30, 2004, FRANKLIN, without lawful authority, possessed at his residence in Kearneysville, West Virginia, Top Secret and Secret documents containing national defense information.

41. On or about July 9, 2004, WEISSMAN agreed to meet with Lawrence Franklin, who, unbeknown to WEISSMAN, had begun cooperating with the government.

42. On or about July 9, 2004, after being informed of WEISSMAN's scheduled meeting with Franklin, ROSEN asked WEISSMAN to later advise him as to what Franklin had to say at the meeting.

43. On or about July 9, 2004, in Arlington, Virginia, WEISSMAN met with Franklin and received from him classified national defense information involving United States intelligence related to certain Middle Eastern countries.

 

44. On or about July 21, 2004, in Arlington, Virginia, WEISSMAN met with Franklin and obtained from Franklin classified national defense information concerning a foreign government's covert actions in Iraq. Before disclosing the information, Franklin warned WEISSMAN that the information he was about to receive was highly classified "Agency stuff" and that WEISSMAN could get into trouble by having the information.

45. On or about July 21, 2004, after meeting with Franklin, WEISSMAN immediately returned to his office, met with ROSEN, and disclosed to ROSEN the classified national defense information he had received from Franklin.

46. On or about July 21, 2004, ROSEN and WEISSMAN had a conversation with FO-3 during which they disclosed classified national information obtained from Franklin earlier that day. ROSEN told FO-3 that the information being disclosed was "Agency" information.

47. On or about July 21, 2004, ROSEN and WEISSMAN had a conversation with a member of the media during which they disclosed classified national defense information provided by Franklin earlier that day. ROSEN told the member of the media that he could not ask about the source of the information, but that the information was "Agency" information and that the source of the information was "an American intelligence source" with whom ROSEN and WEISSMAN had dealt with in the past and was "100 percent credible."

48. On or about July 21, 2004, WEISSMAN disclosed to another AIPAC employee classified national defense information provided by Franklin earlier that day. In his disclosure, WEISSMAN described the information as having come from "an American intelligence source."

49. On or about August 3, 2004, WEISSMAN contacted ROSEN and advised ROSEN that he had been contacted by the FBI. ROSEN advised WEISSMAN that he, too, had been contacted by the FBI. During their conversation, ROSEN and WEISSMAN discussed whether the FBI contact was about "something they picked up at work" and whether the FBI had discovered their contact with the member of the media, referenced above.

50. On or about August 3, 2004 , following his above‑referenced contact with WEISSMAN, ROSEN was interviewed by FBI agents and falsely told the agents that Franklin had never discussed classified information with him and had never provided him with classified information.

51. On or about August 3, 2004, following his interview with FBI agents, ROSEN contacted WEISSMAN and told him that the FBI talked with him about Franklin .

52. On or about August 9, 2004, WEISSMAN was interviewed by FBI agents and falsely told the agents that Franklin had never discussed classified information with him and had never provided him with classified information.

 

53. On or about August 20, 2004, WEISSMAN contacted another member of the media and disclosed to that person classified national defense information obtained an July 21, 2004 from Franklin . WEISSMAN further advised that he was trying to arrange a meeting between Franklin and the member of the media.

54. On or about August 27, 2004, in an interview with FBI agents, ROSEN falsely stated that Franklin had never given him classified information and that he (ROSEN) did not know of anyone to whom Franklin had given classified information.

55. On or about August 27, 2004, following his false statements to FBI agents that day, ROSEN contacted FO-2 and asked to. meet with FO-2 or FO-3 about a "serious matter." ROSEN also told FU‑2 that the FBI had "made some allegations which are important" and added that he did not want to "discuss it on the phone" and did not want to go to FO-2's embassy office.

56. On or about August 27, 2004, following the above‑referenced conversation with FO-2, ROSEN went to a restaurant in Washington , D.C. near FO-2's embassy office. Once there, ROSEN approached FO-2 inside the restaurant. The two then proceeded outside where they engaged in conversation.

57. On or about August 27, 2004, WEISSMAN falsely told FBI agents that he did not know if Franklin had disclosed classified information to him.

(In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 793(g))

 


 

COUNT TWO

Communication of National Defense Information

 

THE GRAND (.TRY FURTHER CHARGES THAT:

On or about February 12, 2003, in Arlington, Virginia, within the Eastern District of Virginia, defendant LAWRENCE ANTHONY FRANKLIN, lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, and being entrusted with information relating to the national defense, which information the defendant had reason #o believe could be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of a foreign nation, did unlawfully, knowingly and willfully communicate, deliver and transmit such information to a person or persons not entitled to receive it.

(in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 793(d))

 

 


 

COUNT THREE

Communication of National Defense Information

 

THE GRAND JURY FURTHER CHARGES THAT:

On or about March 17, 2003, in Arlington, Virginia, within the Eastern District of Virginia and elsewhere, defendant LAWRENCE ANTHONY FRANKLIN, lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, and being entrusted with a document, writing and note relating to the national defense, did unlawfully, knowingly and willfully communicate, deliver and transmit said document, writing and note to a person or persons not entitled to receive it, namely defendant STEVEN J. ROSEN, who did unlawfully, knowingly and willfully aid and abet FRANKLIN in the communication, delivery and transmission of said document, writing and note.

(In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 793(d) and 2)

 

 


 

COUNT FOUR

Communication of National Defense Information

 

THE GRAND JURY FURTHER CHARGES THAT:

On or about June 26, 2003, in Arlington, Virginia, within the Eastern District of Virginia, defendant LAWRENCE ANTHONY FRANKLIN, lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, and being entrusted with information relating to the national defense, which information the defendant had reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of a foreign nation, did unlawfully, knowingly and willfully communicate, deliver and transmit such information to a person or persons .not entitled to receive it. (In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 793(d))

 


 

COUNT FIVE

Conspiracy to Communicate Classified Information

 

THE GRAND JURY FURTHER CHARGES THAT:

General Allegations

1. Foreign Official 3 (FO-3) is a diplomatic staff member of the embassy of Foreign Nation A located in Washington, D.C. FO-3 is not a United States citizen.

2. At no time relevant to this indictment was defendant FRANKLIN assigned or instructed to meet with FO-3 in the Washington, D.C. area as part of his OSD or USAFR employment. At no time relevant to this indictment was defendant FRANKLIN authorized to disclose classified information to FO-3.

The Offense

Between on or about August I S, 2002 and continuing until on or about June 30, 2004, in the Eastern District of Virginia and elsewhere, defendant LAWRENCE ANTHONY FRANKLIN, an employee of the United States, did unlawfully and knowingly conspire, confederate, and agree, with persons known and unknown iv the Grand jury, to commit the following offense against the United States: to communicate in a manner and by a means, to a person whom defendant FRANKLIN knew and had reason to believe was an agent and representative of a foreign government, information of a kind which had been classified by the head of a United States agency with the approval of the President, as affecting the security of the United States, said defendant having known and having had reason to know that such information had been so classified, a violation of Title 50, United States Code, Section 783(a).

 

 

WAYS. MANNER AND MEANS OF THE CONSPIRACY

 

A. It was part of the conspiracy that FRANKLIN would use his position as a desk officer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense to gather information, classified as affecting the security of the United States, for subsequent unlawful communication to FO-3 from Foreign Nation A.

B. It was further part of the conspiracy that FRANKLIN would communicate by telephone with FO-3 to arrange meetings, share information, set agendas for meetings and act upon requests for additional information. It was part of the conspiracy to develop a trustworthy relationship between the conspirators and foster an environment in which the defendant felt free to disclose classified information.

C. It was further part of the conspiracy that FRANKLIN and FO-3 would meet at locations in the Eastern District of Virginia and elsewhere, to exchange information, including classified information affecting the security of the United States .

D. It was further part of the conspiracy that FRANKLIN would communicate classified information to FO-3 in an effort to enhance his own standing, advance his own personal foreign policy agenda, and influence persons within and outside the United States government.

 

OVERT ACTS

 

In furtherance of the conspiracy and to effect the object thereof, defendant LAWRENCE ANTHONY FRANKLIN and FO-3 did commit overt acts in the Eastern District of Virginia and elsewhere, including but not limited to the following:

1. On or about August 15, 2002 , defendant FRANKLIN met with FO-3 at a restaurant in Washington, D.C. FO-3 explained to FRANKLIN that he was the "policy" person at the embassy and he would be the appropriate person with whom the defendant should talk.

2. On or about September 13, 2002 , FRANKLIN communicated with one of his contacts at Foreign Nation A's embassy. That contact directed him to FO-3. The defendant and FO-3 exchanged phone calls in September, October, and November in an effort to set up a meeting. FRANKLIN called FO-3 at his office located at the embassy, and FO-3 called the defendant at his office at the Pentagon.

3. On or about January 30, 2003 , the defendant and FO-3 met near Foreign Nation A's embassy in Washington, D.C. The subject of the discussion at this meeting was a Middle Eastern country's nuclear program.

 

4. In or about February, March, and April of 2003, FRANKLIN and 1~O‑3 spoke by telephone and set up appointments to meet. The defendant called FO-3 from his office in the Pentagon. 5. On or about May 2, 2003 , FRANKLIN met with FO-3 at the Pentagon Officer's Athletic Club (POAC), located adjacent to the Pentagon, within the Eastern District of Virginia. At this meeting, the two discussed foreign policy issues and senior United Stales government officials.

6. On or about May 23, 2003 , FRANKLIN again met FO-3 at the POAC. At this meeting, the two discussed issues concerning a Middle Eastern country and its nuclear program and the views held by Europe and certain United States government agencies with regard to that issue. Following this meeting, the defendant drafted an Action Memo to his supervisors, incorporating suggestions made by FO-3 during the meeting.

SW-Asia More Notes by Barry O'Connell Judith Miller is Unnamed Woman in AIPAC Spy Ring Indictment  (on her thoughts)

7. On or about June 3, 2003, FRANKLIN met with FO-3 at the POAC, and the discussion centered on a specific person, not in the United Status government, and her thoughts concerning the nuclear program of the Middle Eastern country and, separately, certain charity, efforts in Foreign Nation A.

8. On or about July 11, 2003, FRANKLIN met with FO-3 at the POAC and discussed certain charity work being done in a foreign nation.

9. On or about August 8, 2003, the defendant met with FO-3.

10. On or about August 29, 2003, the defendant met with FO-3 at the POAC.

11. On or about October 9, 2003, FRANKLIN met with FO-3 at a sandwich shop near the United States Department of State headquarters. The defendant asked FO-3 to provide him with a letter for his daughter, to aid her in her travels to the Middle East and Foreign Nation A.

12. On or about January 15, 2004, FRANKLIN met FO-3 and again asked FO-3 to provide some type of letter for his daughter for her travel to the Middle East, including Foreign Nation A.

3. On or about February 13, 2004 , FRANKLIN met FO-3 at the POAC. At this meeting, FO-3 suggested to the defendant that he should meet with a person previously associated with an intelligence agency of Foreign Nation A who was then running a think tank in Foreign Nation A. FO-3 also gave the defendant a gift card.

14. On or about February 20, 2004, FRANKLIN met in the cafeteria at the Pentagon with this person previously associated with an intelligence agency of Foreign Nation A and discussed a Middle Eastern country's nuclear program.

15. In or about late February 2004, the defendant and FO-3 exchanged telephone calls about certain foreign organizations.

 

16. On or about May 13, 2004, FO-3 faxed a letter from his embassy office to FRANKLIN's Pentagon fax relating to the defendant's daughter's travel to Foreign Nation A.

17. On or about June 8, 2004, FRANKLIN and FO-3 met at a coffee house in Washington, D.C. At this meeting, the defendant provided FO-3 with classified information he had learned from a classified United States government document related to a Middle Eastern country's activities in Iraq. The defendant was not authorized to disclose this classified information to FO-3.

18. On June 23, 2004 , FRANKLIN met FO-3 end another official from Foreign Nation A at the Pentagon. The parties discussed the military situation in Iraq . The defendant provided FO-3 with an unclassified copy of a speech and list of questions that a senior United States government official was to give that day or the next before the Congressional Foreign Affairs Committee.

19. Between December 2003 and June 2004, at an unknown location, FRANKLIN disclosed to FO-3 classified United States government information relating to a weapons test conducted by a Middle Eastern country.

 

(In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371.) .

 

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