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With AIPAC in background, spat erupts between
neocons and intelligence community.
EDWIN BLACK
Special to the Jewish News
Washington
ast June, leading neoconserva-
tive Richard Perle received an
unexpected phone call from
Larry Franklin. Franklin is the veter-
an Iran specialist in the Pentagon's
Near East South Asia office, and the
key Iraq war planner who had been
pressured by the FBI into launching
a series of counterintelligence stings.
Perle, a former chairman of the
Pentagon's Defense Policy Board,
was an architect of the 2003 Iraq
war. Franklin, who had never had
phoned before, reportedly asked
Perle to "convey a message to
[Ahmad] Chalabi," the embattled
president of the Iraqi National
Congress.
Chalabi is at the vortex of a
Pentagon-intelligence community
conflict over pre- and postwar U.S.
policy, but is still endorsed by neo-
conservatives.
Something about Franklin's unex-
pected call struck Perle as "weird,"
according to the sources. Why was
Franklin calling? In the recent past,
Perle had only encountered Franklin
a few times. Perle became "impa-
tient" to end his brief conversation,
and finally declined to pass a mes-
sage to Chalabi or to cooperate in
any way.
Perle has refused to comment on
the reported conversation.
A source with knowledge of
Franklin's calls suggests that Franklin
might have been trying to warn Perle
and Chalabi that conflict between
the counterintelligence community
and the neoconservatives was spin-
ning out of control.
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FBI Probe
Unbeknownst to Franklin, the FBI
was listening.
Franklin had been under surveil-
lance for at least a year by the FBI's
counterintelligence division, which
is led by controversial
Counterintelligence Chief David
Related editorial, page 31
Szady. Franklin had been monitored
since a meeting in 2003, when he
discussed a classified Iran policy doc-
ument with officials of the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee.
He also was monitored late last
May while responding to a routine
media inquiry by CBS reporters
about Iran's intelligence activities in
Iraq, according to multiple sources.
Among the reporters who spoke to
Franklin in late May was former
CIA attorney Adam Ciralsky, who
had joined CBS as a reporter.
During that call, Franklin purport-
edly revealed classified information.
In late June, Szady's FBI counter-
intelligence division finally confront-
ed a shocked Franklin with evidence
of his monitored calls. The bureau
arranged for Franklin to be placed
on administrative leave without pay,
and then threatened him with
imprisonment unless Franklin
engaged in a series of stings against a
list of prominent Washington tar-
gets, according to multiple sources
with direct knowledge of the FBI's
actions in the case.
Terrified, needing to provide for a
wheelchair-bound wife and five chil-
dren, and without benefit of legal
representation, Franklin agreed to
ensnare the individuals on the FBI
sting list. The list may include as
many as six names, according to
sources.
On July 21, Franklin met an
AIPAC official in a Virginia mall
and urged that information be
passed to Israel that Israelis operat-
ing in northern Kurdistan were in
danger of being kidnapped and
killed by Iranian intelligence. That
information — the validity of which
has been questioned — was report-
edly passed to the Israeli Embassy,
thereby providing the FBI with a
basis for search warrants and threats
of an espionage prosecution against
AIPAC Policy Director Steve Rosen
and AIPAC Iran specialist Keith
Weissman, according to the sources.
AIPAC officials have declined to
comment.
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