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Jewish Support Washington federal prosecutor's decision to bring an investigation involving the American Israel Public Affairs Committee to a grand jury is, at the least, an unwanted distraction at a critical time for the top Israel lobby — and some worry that it could hamper the organization's effectiveness. FBI agents searched AIPAC's head- quarters in Washington on Dec. 1, seiz- ing files associated with two senior staffers who were interviewed in August amid allegations that a classified Pentagon document was leaked and passed on to Israel. The agents also served subpoenas on four other senior staffers to appear before a grand jury later this month. The four were Howard Kohr, the group's executive director; Richard Fishman, the managing director; Renee Rothstein, the communications director; and Raphael Danziger, the research director. Though some AIPAC officials and lay leaders in past months sought to portray the investigation as dying down, sources • said federal investigators have inter- viewed several former AIPAC employees in recent weeks. AIPAC officials deny that any staff member has done any- thing wrong. "Neither AIPAC nor any member of our staff has broken any law," AIPAC said in a statement. "We are fully coop- erating with the governmental authori- ties. We believe any court of law or grand jury will conclude that AIPAC employees have always acted legally, properly and appropriately." But the grand jury deliberations will preoccupy key AIPAC staffers at a time that Israel's government is seeking Bush administration and congressional sup- port for renewed talks with the Palestinians and ahead of a planned, controversial withdrawal from Gaza. "It is obviously a very serious matter," said Laurie Levenson, a law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and a former prosecutor. "It does not necessar- ily mean there will be indictments or that we know who the targets are, but a grand jury has a great deal of power. They can call witnesses, documents, people who go can't bring lawyers — it's Officials from other American Jewish organizations continued to stand by AIPAC and expressed outrage over the course of the investigation. "The behav- ior is very disturbing, that 10 guys raid an organization that has always been willing to cooperate," said Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, of which AIPAC is a member. "The pattern here has the appearance of being problematic — behavior that has been going on months, if not years," said Hoenlein. Supporters of the pro-Israel lobby have suggested that the investigation is a witch hunt led by one or two FBI rogues with a history of harassing Jews and Jewish organizations. Those close to AIPAC vigorously defended its integrity. "I can never remember a moment when the senior team, from Howard Kohr right down the line, weren't fully cognitive of what was appropriate and dignified," said Steve Grossman, AIPAC's president from 1992-97. "I cannot think of a sin- gle moment when I felt that any infor- mation being transmitted or discussed was in any way inappropriate." Because of the secret nature of FBI investigations and grand jury proce- dures, few people know the focus of the search and whether AIPAC or the two staffers interviewed in August — Steve Rosen, the director of foreign policy issues, and Keith Weissman, the foreign policy deputy director — are even the targets. Top AIPAC staffers and lay leaders were pulled away for hours Dec. 1 on a conference call to discuss the matter. Other former AIPAC employees sug- gested the group could be under investi- gation for acting as an agent for Israel. Under the Foreign Agent Registration Act, a foreign agent is any individual or group that works under the direction of a foreign government. AIPAC, however, has always maintained that it represents American supporters of the Jewish state, not Israel itself. "If it turns out that AIPAC staffers were involved in illegal activities, it will hurt AIPAC's reputation on the Hill," A Mom, our hearts are still very broken, There will never by anyone quite like you, We know that you are watching and guiding us, and we just want to say we love and miss you. Up to MATTHEW E. BERGER Jewish Telegraphic Agency Same Day Service