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"So Larry says, 'I am talking to a bunch of media people and I can spin this — but you need to level with me to get this straight.' This was not very much like Larry," Brooke recalled, "and I just said, `There is nothing to spin.'" Brooke dismissed the entire effort as a CIA vendetta against Chalabi. Franklin has refused to comment. In August, Franklin was directed by the FBI to call Ciralsky, who by this time had moved from CBS to NBC, where he was working on security developments in Iran. Franklin tried to set up a meeting with Ciralsky, but it never occurred. On Aug. 27, the FBI's raids against AIPAC were leaked to CBS. Franklin's actions were now public. Before joining CBS, Ciralsky was working as an attorney for the CIA, but was allegedly forced out in 1999 during an inquiry into his family background and his Jewish affilia- tions. Ciralsky filed a harassment lawsuit against the CIA that is still pending. 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The neo- cons have an interventionist mind- set, willing to ally with anyone to defeat world terrorism, and they see the intelligence community as too passive. "The intelligence community sees the neocons as wild men willing to champion any foreign source — no matter how specious — if it suits their ideology." Said leading neoconservative Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute, "It involves both the right and the left of the intelligence community. It is a war about policy, the point being, the CIA must not be involved in policy. "The CIA's role is to provide intel- ligence and let the policymakers decide what to do with it, and it appears they are not sticking to that role — and that is a dangerous situa- tion. This is the politicizing of intel- ligence." Rubin said the sting effort "against AIPAC is the culmination of a 20- year witch hunt from a small corps within the counterintelligence com- munity" that Rubin labeled "con- spiracy theorists." One neoconservative at the center of the counterintelligence war said: "This is just the beginning. Nobody knows where this war is going." 0 Edwin Black is the author of "IBM and the Holocaust" (Crown, 2001). This article first appeared in the Forward.