Israeli political advisor may have received U.S. secrets

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By Jim Miklaszewski
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 6:17 p.m. ET Sept. 1, 2004U.S. government sources confirm to NBC News that the Israeli diplomat suspected of receiving U.S. secrets is Naor Gilon — political advisor to the Israeli embassy in Washington.

Gilon was already under surveillance by the FBI when he was reportedly spotted at a meeting with Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin, who's under investigation for possibly passing classified information to the Israelis on the Bush administration's policy debate over Iran.

"Or they won't know exactly what the U.S. government is deciding to do, and so it may want to conduct espionage just to hedge its bets," says former U.N. weapons inspector David Albright.

Government sources tell NBC News if the FBI determines the Israeli diplomat Gilon did illegally accept classified information he could be declared "persona non grata" and ordered to leave the U.S.

more
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5889741/

Report: FBI probe of AIPAC began two years ago

According to the report, the FBI is investigating whether highly classified material from the National Security Agency, which conducts electronic intercepts of communications, was also forwarded to Israel.
more
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1094111906250&p=1006688055060

Israeli diplomat denies any improper behavior
In the past several days, the investigation has been spreading to other US officials. According to the New York Times, FBI agents wanted to question two senior Defense Department officials: Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy. It is unclear, however, if the bureau had indeed questioned the two.

http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=10844

[davhill]

1. Just move the Nation's Capital

to Tel Aviv. It would be cheaper and simpler to be ruled from there.

[LeftHander]

2. Hah! So the "briefing" with Wolfowitz was a interview...

Man the whore media is a spinning slut.

The FBI questions a top pentagon official and calls it a briefing....

Two days later it is called "questioning"

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3. Franklin Met with Naor Gilon

Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Franklin Met with Naor Gilon

The Israeli foreign ministry has confirmed that Lawrence Franklin, the Pentagon's top Iran desk officer, met repeatedly in Washington with "Naor Gilon, head of the political department at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, and a specialist on Iran's nuclear weapons program."

Gilon appears already to have been under surveillance by the FBI. At one point Franklin is said to have offered him a document, which he declined to take, but asked what it said and got an oral report. Gilon was unaware that he was being monitored and clearly thought he would be safe as long as he did not have any incriminating paper in his possession (conversations can be denied or spun, as long as they aren't taped).

Franklin did succeed in giving a confidential draft presidential directive on Iran to AIPAC officials, who then passed it to someone at the Israeli Embassy, perhaps Gilon. It is telling that the official took hard copy from AIPAC, presumably because he trusted them implicitly, whereas Gilon had rejected it from Franklin.

That Gilon is a specialist in Iran's nuclear weapons program suggests that Franklin wanted to consult with him about what the US should do about that issue. Gilon was "Director of the Division for Strategic and Military Affairs in the Center for Policy Research in Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from 2000-2002." Franklin harbors feelings of profound hatred for the regime in Tehran and wanted to see it destroyed.
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:A3eybozZ7FkJ:www.juancole.com/+Naor+Gilon&hl=en

Gilon has diplomatic immunity

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4. Pentagon spy arrested at Israeli embassy

Snip from TheSpoof:

The Wailing Wall, Thursday (Rioters) - The Pentagon as announced that a high-ranking Iran specialist has been arrested at the Israeli embassy in Tel Aviv and charged with espionage.

In a series of dawn raids, officials reporting to US Secretary of State Colon Bowel are said to have raided the home of an unnamed individual who works in the embassy which the Israeli people had installed in their own capital to keep an eye on Ariel Sharon's government following sub-contracting problems related to his "Berlin 2" razor wire wall surrounding the Occupied Territories.
More:
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i6482

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5. Conyers wants an immediate investigation

Larry Franklin.


The top-ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers, called on Wednesday for the committee to launch an immediate investigation to "examine substantial and credible evidence that Pentagon officials have engaged in criminal wrongdoing in their handling of classified material and have engaged in unauthorized covert activities."
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6136637


Congress Must Investigate Spy Scandal by Rep. John Conyers

I write to ask that the Judiciary Committee commence an immediate full investigation and examine substantial and credible evidence that Pentagon officials have engaged in criminal wrongdoing in their handling of classified material and have engaged in unauthorized covert activities.

Press reports have recently disclosed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is currently examining whether a Pentagon analyst, Larry Franklin, illegally passed along a classified document involving the policy of the United States toward Iran. It is not yet known whether Mr. Franklin was acting on his own, or whether he was acting at the behest of his superiors. The fact that a rogue element of the United States government may have been working with a foreign government in possible contravention of current foreign policy is a grave matter that should be of concern to every American.

Unfortunately, based on media accounts, it now appears that these allegations may be only the tip of the iceberg of a broader effort of Pentagon employees working in the office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Douglas Feith, to conduct unauthorized covert activities, without the knowledge of the Central Intelligence Agency. According to press accounts, it also appears that these activities may have involved other disclosures of classified information to foreign governments (1) and the falsification of documents.(2) In addition, these activities may well constitute criminal misappropriation of federal funds.(3) All of these allegations, if true, involve potential violations of federal criminal law and are, therefore, within the jurisdiction of the Judiciary Committee.

To fully investigate these allegations, I would suggest that the Committee examine the following questions:

(1) Did Pentagon officials illegally give classified information to members of the Iraqi National Congress or to discredited Iraqi exile Ahmed Chalabi? Were White House officials, including officials in the Office of the Vice President, aware of such activities? Did Mr. Chalabi then pass along such materials, including information that the United States had broken Iran's communications codes, to Iran?

(2) Did Pentagon officials illegally obtain and disseminate false intelligence information to further the (now discredited) assertion that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction? Were Pentagon officials either the conduits for or originators of documents claiming Iraq had made efforts to acquire such records, including fraudulent documents claiming Iraq had attempted to buy weapons grade uranium from Niger? Were White House officials, including officials in the Office of the Vice President, aware of such activities? What role (if any) did officials in the NSC, including Elliott Abrams, have in these actions?

(3) Did Pentagon officials conduct illegal and unauthorized meetings with foreign nationals, including Iranian and Syrian nationals, to plan or direct covert activities against foreign governments? Did Pentagon officials provide monetary or other assistance to such foreign nationals, including a known arms dealer, Manucher Ghorbanifar? Did such meetings involve any foreign intelligence officials, including the head of Italian military intelligence (SISMI), or other foreign military officials? What role (if any) did officials in the NSC, including Elliott Abrams, have in these actions?

(4) Did Pentagon officials obtain information about the covert status of Central Intelligence Agency operative Valerie Plame? Was such information obtained illegally? Was such information illegally shared with White House officials, including officials in the Office of the Vice President?

While I am fully cognizant that many of these activities may be the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation, there is ample precedent that such an investigation does not preclude, and will not be interfered with as a result of, a concurrent congressional investigation. Recently, when allegations were made about the mishandling of classified information in the National Archives by a former Clinton administration official, you and other Committee chairmen affirmed this principle.

I urge you to treat this request with the utmost importance. These matters may well constitute the greatest subversion of our democracy and compromising of our national security since the Iran-Contra affair. It is of paramount importance that our committee begin work on this matter immediately.

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/conyers.php?articleid=3488

Letter from Rep. John Conyers to the Judiciary Committee OK to post in full


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[emad]

9. Great news Seems, thanks for keeping this vital issue LIVE!

My own sources in the UK have always maintained that a corrupt cabal alliance of US and UK military intelligence chiefs set out to ruin the UN Head of Minitary Intelligence ON BUSH 1's PERSONAL ORDERS to get Junior elected and that Blair was recruited as a paid mercenary way back in 1983 when he entered Parliament to pave the way for the Bush dirty dynasty of renegades to take control of Middle East oil supplies. And that in the UK Robert Maxwell and Margaret Thatcher were the key players to make this possible.

I have posted extensively about this, in particular in:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2237275

where I cite that a videotape exists of extremely detailed intelligence of the planning, execution and masterminding of 9/11.

I am given to understand that the existence of this videotape was the reason that Blair masterminded the hostage-taking by post-Good Friday Agreement IRA thugs of the UN Head of Military Intelligence in June 2000 and that this high ranking general is married to a close relative of the late President Harry S Truman. I am also told by senior authoritative sources in the British judiciary who are experts in UK Constitutional and Military Law that the UN Head of Military Intelligence had previously testified that both Junior and Blair have paedophile convictions going back to their adolescence and that a co-alition of US and UK military executives hid this from state intelligence files on the orders of Poppy who had personally had to do the same sanitisation exercise to get Ronald Reagan elected in 1980.

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6. see the other thread for warning

The prosecutor in the spy matter is a known Bush FIXER.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=720325&mesg_id=723843

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7. Just saw this posted in GD

whosinpower (358 posts) Thu Sep-02-04 11:50 AM
Original message
Ashcroft Nixes Arrests in Israeli Spy Probe


Did you guys hear about this already???????????


article - from www.antiwar.com

The neoconservative New York Sun is reporting that Attorney General John Ashcroft halted arrests in the Israeli spy case last Friday. From the Sun:

"According to sources familiar with the investigation,the U.S. district attorney in charge of the probe, Paul McNulty, has ordered the FBI not to move forward with arrests that they were prepared to make last Friday when the story broke on CNN and CBS. 'He put the brakes on it in order to look at it,' a source familiar with the investigation told the Sun. 'To see what was there. Basically the FBI wanted to start making arrests and McNulty said "Woa, based on what? Let's look at this before you do anything."' . . .

"Mr. McNulty was only assigned the case by Attorney General Ashcroft last Friday when federal agents came to AIPAC's offices in Washington to request files and hard drives. 'Ashcroft wanted to make sure this case was being handled properly,' the source familiar with the probe said. 'I would not expect any action on this for at least three weeks.' This source added that a grand jury is now being selected, but it was likely the charges, initially reported as espionage, would be scaled back to the mishandling of classified information."

The the Sun's owners, who include Conrad Black, described the paper's outlook as "certainly neoconservative" when they launched it in early 2002.

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8. Thanks so much liberalnproud

This needs it's own thread

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10. You know I have been thinking.

I wonder what this evenings news dump will be. Maybe we will hear something more later. I hope it involves charges.