LARRY FRANKLIN

'Lawrence Anthony Franklin' is a U.S. Air Force Reserve colonel who has pleaded guilty to passing information about U.S. policy towards Iran to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the foremost pro-Israel lobbying organization in the U.S, while he was working for the Defense Department in what he claims was an attempt to get the information passed on to the United States National Security Council, which he could not do through regular Pentagon channels. Two former employees of that organization are also facing charges that they assisted him in the AIPAC espionage scandal and passing classified information to an Israeli diplomat Naor Gilon. On January 20, 2006, Judge T.S. Ellis, III sentenced Franklin to 151 months (almost 13 years) in prison and fined him $10,000. ^[1] The case was heard in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Ultimately, Franklin was charged with unauthorized disclosure of classified information, not with espionage.

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Franklin at the Office of Special Plans

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Franklin at the Office of Special Plans

In 2002 and 2003, Franklin worked at the Office of Special Plans which was set up by Donald Rumsfeld. The office was led by prominent conservative Douglas Feith. Under Feith's authorization, Larry Franklin met with Iran-Contra figures; critics allege they discussed Iraq intelligence, while supporters say they discussed only the War on Terrorism.^[2][3]

See also

★ Karen Kwiatkowski

★ Michael Ledeen

★ Manucher Ghorbanifar

★ Mojahedin-e-Khalq

★ SISMI

★ Plame affair

★ Yellowcake Forgery

References

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3. [3]

External links

★ Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies: Larry Franklin Case [4]

★ Pentagon analyst guilty in Israeli spy scandal [5]

★ Larry Franklin indictment

★ Center for Cooperative Research, Profile: Larry Franklin [6]

★ Jerry Markon. Pentagon spy for Israel given 12 years, Washington Post, January 21, 2006.