| Author | Message | | Alpha | | Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 8:15 pm Post subject: FBI espionage probe goes beyond Israeli allegations, sources |
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Posted on Sat, Aug. 28, 2004
FBI espionage probe goes beyond Israeli allegations, sources say
By Warren P. Strobel
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - An FBI probe into the handling of highly classified material by Pentagon civilians is broader than previously reported, and goes well beyond allegations that a single mid-level analyst gave a top-secret Iran policy document to Israel, three sources familiar with the investigation said Saturday.
The probe, which has been going on for more than two years, also has focused on other civilians in the Secretary of Defense's office, said the sources, who spoke on condition they not be identified, but who have first-hand knowledge of the subject.
In addition, one said, FBI investigators in recent weeks have conducted interviews to determine whether Pentagon officials gave highly classified U.S. intelligence to a leading Iraqi exile group, the Iraqi National Congress, which may in turn have passed it on to Iran. INC leader Ahmed Chalabi has denied his group was involved in any wrongdoing.
The linkage, if any, between the two leak investigations, remains unclear.
But they both center on the office of Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, the Pentagon's No. 3 official.
Feith's office, which oversees policy matters, has been the source of numerous controversies over the last three years. His office had close ties to Chalabi and was responsible for post-war Iraq planning that the administration has now acknowledged was inadequate. Before the war, Feith and his aides pushed the now-discredited theory that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was in league with al-Qaida.
No one is known to have been charged with any wrongdoing in the current investigation. Officials cautioned that it could result in charges of mishandling classified information, rather than the more serious charge of espionage.
The Israeli government on Saturday strenuously denied it had spied on the United States, its main benefactor on the global scene.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the powerful pro-Israel lobby that top officials said is suspected of serving as a conduit to Israel for the mid-level analyst, also has denied any wrongdoing.
That analyst, Larry Franklin, works for Feith's deputy, William Luti, and served as an important - albeit low-profile - advisor on Iran issues to Feith and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz.
Franklin, a former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst who lives in West Virginia, could not be reached for comment Saturday.
Investigators are said to be looking at whether Franklin acted with authorization from his superiors, one official said.
Two sources disclosed Saturday that the information believed to have been passed to Israel was the draft of a top-secret presidential order on Iran policy, known as a National Security Presidential Directive. Because of disagreements over Iran policy among President Bush's advisors, the document is not believed to have ever been completed.
Having a draft of the document - which some Pentagon officials may have believed was insufficiently tough toward Iran - would have allowed Israel to influence U.S. policy while it was still being made. Iran is among Israel's main security concerns.
Two or three staff members of AIPAC have been interviewed in connection with the case. In a prepared statement, AIPAC said any allegation of criminal conduct was "false and baseless." It is "cooperating fully," with investigators, AIPAC's statement said.
Israeli officials insisted they stopped spying on the United States after the exposure of Jonathan Pollard, who was arrested in 1985 and sentenced to life in prison for spying for Israel.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan declined to discuss the continuing investigation.
"Obviously any time there is an allegation of this nature, it's a serious matter," he told reporters traveling with Bush in Ohio.
In a statement issued late Friday, the Pentagon said it "has been cooperating with the Department of Justice on this matter for an extended period of time. It is the DoD (Department of Defense) understanding that the investigation within the DoD is limited in its scope."
But other sources said the FBI investigation is more wide-ranging than initial news reports suggested.
They said it has involved interviews of current and former officials at the White House, Pentagon and State Department.
Investigators have asked about the security practices of several other Defense Department civilians, they said.
Franklin's name surfaced in news reports last year when it became known that he and another Pentagon Middle East specialist, Harold Rhode, met in late 2001 with Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian arms merchant who played a role in the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said publicly last year that nothing came of the meeting, which reportedly was brokered by former National Security Council official Michael Ledeen.
Rhode could not be reached for comment Saturday.
Feith has long been close to Israel. In 2000, he helped author a paper, "A Clean Break," that advised incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to adopt a much tougher approach to the Palestinians and Israel's Arab neighbors.
A former Feith employee, Karen Kwiatkowski, has described how senior Israeli military officers were sometimes escorted to his Pentagon office without signing in as security regulations required.
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(Knight Ridder correspondent John Walcott contributed to this report.) | |  | | Alpha | | Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 10:46 pm Post subject: Fomenting a War on Iran |
| http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6808.htm
Fomenting a War on Iran
Juan Cole (a very respected professor and commentator on the Middle East at the University of Michigan)
08/29/04 "ICH" -- Here is my take on the Lawrence Franklin espionage scandal in the Pentagon.
It is an echo of the one-two punch secretly planned by the pro-Likud faction in the Department of Defense. First, Iraq would be taken out by the United States, and then Iran . David Wurmser, a key member of the group, also wanted Syria included. These pro-Likud intellectuals concluded that 9/11 would give them carte blanche to use the Pentagon as Israel's Gurkha regiment, fighting elective wars on behalf of Tel Aviv (not wars that really needed to be fought, but wars that the Likud coalition thought it would be nice to see fought so as to increase Israel's ability to annex land and act aggressively, especially if someone else's boys did the dying).
Franklin is a reserve Air Force colonel and former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst. He was an attache at the US embassy in Tel Aviv at one point, which some might now see as suspicious. After the Cold War ended, Franklin became concerned with Iran as a threat to Israel and the US, and learned a little Persian (not very much--I met him once at a conference and he could only manage a few halting phrases of Persian). Franklin has a strong Brooklyn accent and says he is "from the projects." I was told by someone at the Pentagon that he is not Jewish, despite his strong association with the predominantly Jewish neoconservatives. I know that he is very close to Paul Wolfowitz. He seems a canny man and a political operator, and if he gave documents to AIPAC it was not an act of simple stupidity, as some observers have suggested. It was part of some clever scheme that became too clever by half.
Franklin moved over to the Pentagon from DIA, where he became the Iran expert, working for Bill Luti and Undersecretary of Defense for Planning, Douglas Feith. He was the "go to" person on Iran for Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, and for Feith. This situation is pretty tragic, since Franklin is not a real Iranist. His main brief appears to have been to find ways to push a policy of overthrowing its government (apparently once Iraq had been taken care of). This project has been pushed by the shadowy eminence grise, Michael Ledeen, for many years, and Franklin coordinated with Ledeen in some way. Franklin was also close to Harold Rhode, a long-time Middle East specialist in the Defense Department who has cultivated far right pro-Likud cronies for many years, more or less establishing a cell within the Department of Defense.
UPI via Dawn reports ,
' An UPI report said another under-investigation official Mr Rhode "practically lived out of (Ahmad) Chalabi's office". Intelligence sources said that CIA operatives observed Mr Rhode as being constantly on his cell phone to Israel, discussing US plans, military deployments, political projects and a discussion of Iraq assets. '
Josh Marshall et al. have just published a piece in the Washington Monthly that details Franklin's meetings with corrupt Iranian arms dealer and con man Manuchehr Ghorbanifar, who had in the 1980s played a key role in the Iran-contra scandal. It is absolutely key that the meetings were attended also by Rhode, Ledeen and the head of Italy's military intelligence agency, SISMI, Nicolo Pollari, as well as Rome's Minister of Defense, Antonio Martino.
The rightwing government of corrupt billionnaire Silvio Berlusconi, including Martino, was a big supporter of an Iraq war. Moreover, we know that the forged documents falsely purporting to show Iraqi uranium purchases from Niger originated with a former SISMI agent. Watch the reporting of Josh Marshall for more on this SISMI/Ledeen/Rhode connection.
But journalist Matthew Yglesias has already tipped us to a key piece of information. The Niger forgeries also try to implicate Iran . Indeed, the idea of a joint Iraq/Iran nuclear plot was so far-fetched that it is what initially made the Intelligence and Research division of the US State Department suspicious of the forgeries, even before the discrepancies of dates and officials in Niger were noticed. Yglesisas quotes from the Senate report on the alleged Iraqi attempt to buy uranium from Niger:
' The INR [that's State Department intelligence] nuclear analyst told the Committee staff that the thing that stood out immediately about the [forged] documents was that a companion document -- a document included with the Niger documents that did not relate to uranium -- mentioned some type of military campaign against major world powers. The members of the alleged military campaign included both Iraq and Iran and was, according to the documents, being orchestrated through the Nigerien [note: that's not the same as Nigerian] Embassy in Rome, which all struck the analyst as "completely implausible." Because the stamp on this document matched the stamp on the uranium document [the stamp was supposed to establish the documents bona fides], the analyst thought that all of the documents were likely suspect. The analyst was unaware at the time of any formatting problems with the documents or inconsistencies with the names or dates. '
Journalist Eric Margolis notes of SISMI:
SISMI has long been notorious for far right, even neo-fascist, leanings. According to Italian judicial investigators, SISMI was deeply involved in numerous plots against Italy’s democratic government, including the 1980 Bologna train station terrorist bombing that left 85 dead and 200 injured. Senior SISMI officers were in cahoots with celebrated swindler Roberto Calvi, the neo-fascist P2 Masonic Lodge, other extreme rightist groups trying to destabilize Italy, the Washington neocon operative, Michael Ledeen, and the Iran-Contra conspirators. SISMI works hand in glove with US, British and Israeli intelligence. In the 1960’s and 70’s, SISMI reportedly carried out numerous operations for CIA, including bugging the Vatican, the Italian president’s palace, and foreign embassies. Italy’s civilian intelligence service, SISDE, associated with Italy’s political center-left, has long been a bitter rival of SISMI. After CIA rejected the Niger file, it was eagerly snapped up by VP Dick Cheney and his chief of staff, Lewis Libby, who were urgently seeking any reason, no matter how specious, to invade Iraq. Cheney passed the phony data to Bush, who used it in his January, 2003 address to the nation in spite of warnings from CIA . . .
So Franklin, Ledeen, and Rhode, all of them pro-Likud operatives, just happen to be meeting with SISMI (the proto-fascist purveyor of the false Niger uranium story about Iraq and the alleged Iran-Iraq plot against the rest of the world) and corrupt Iranian businessman and would-be revolutionary, Ghorbanifar, in Europe. The most reasonable conclusion is that they were conspiring together about the Next Campaign after Iraq, which they had already begun setting in train, which is to get Iran.
But now The Jerusalem Post reveals that at least one of the meetings was quite specific with regard to an attempt to torpedo better US/Iran relations:
The purpose of the meeting with Ghorbanifar was to undermine a pending deal that the White House had been negotiating with the Iranian government. At the time, Iran had considered turning over five al-Qaida operatives in exchange for Washington dropping its support for Mujahadeen Khalq, an Iraq-based rebel Iranian group listed as a terrorist organization by the State Department.
The Neoconservatives have some sort of shadowy relationship with the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization or MEK. Presumably its leaders have secretly promised to recognize Israel if they ever succeed in overthrowing the ayatollahs in Iran. When the US recently categorized the MEK as a terrorist organization, there were howls of outrage from scholars associated with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (a wing of AIPAC), such as Patrick Clawson and Daniel Pipes. MEK is a terrorist organization by any definition of the term, having blown up innocent people in the course of its struggle against the Khomeini government. (MEK is a cult-like mixture of Marx and Islam). The MEK had allied with Saddam, who gave them bases in Iraq from which to hit Iran. When the US overthrew Saddam, it raised the question of what to do with the MEK. The pro-Likud faction in the Pentagon wanted to go on developing their relationship with the MEK and using it against Tehran.
So it transpires that the Iranians were willing to give up 5 key al-Qaeda operatives, whom they had captured, in return for MEK members.
Franklin, Rhode and Ledeen conspired with Ghorbanifar and SISMI to stop that trade. It would have led to better US-Iran relations, which they wanted to forestall, and it would have damaged their proteges, the MEK.
Since high al-Qaeda operatives like Saif al-Adil and possibly even Saad Bin Laden might know about future operations, or the whereabouts of Bin Laden, for Franklin and Rhode to stop the trade grossly endangered the United States.
The FBI has evidence that Franklin passed a draft presidential directive on Iran to AIPAC, which then passed it to the Israelis. The FBI is construing these actions as espionage or something close to it. But that is like getting Al Capone on tax evasion. Franklin was not giving the directive to AIPAC in order to provide them with information. He was almost certainly seeking feedback from them on elements of it. He was asking, "Do you like this? Should it be changed in any way?" And, he might also have been prepping AIPAC for the lobbying campaign scheduled for early in 2005, when Congress will have to be convinced to authorize military action, or at least covert special operations, against Iran. AIPAC probably passed the directive over to Israel for the same reason--not to inform, but to seek input. That is, AIPAC and Israel were helping write US policy toward Iran, just as they had played a key role in fomenting the Iraq war.
With both Iraq and Iran in flames, the Likud Party could do as it pleased in the Middle East without fear of reprisal. This means it could expel the Palestinians from the West Bank to Jordan, and perhaps just give Gaza back to Egypt to keep Cairo quiet. Annexing southern Lebanon up to the Litani River, the waters of which Israel has long coveted, could also be undertaken with no consequences, they probably think, once Hizbullah in Lebanon could no longer count on Iranian support. The closed character of the economies of Iraq and Iran, moreover, would end, allowing American, Italian and British companies to make a killing after the wars (so they thought).
Franklin's movements reveal the contours of a rightwing conspiracy of warmongering and aggression, an orgy of destruction, for the benefit of the Likud Party, of Silvio Berlusconi's business in the Middle East, and of the Neoconservative Right in the United States. It isn't about spying. It is about conspiring to conscript the US government on behalf of a foreign power or powers.
Juan Cole is Professor of History at the University of Michigan
Reprinted with permission www.juancole.com | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 11:45 pm Post subject: Neocons With Dual Agendas and Divided Loyalties |
| Forwarded:
...so they caught another spy..what about the big fish .. the big
spies, wolfi , feith.,luti and the boys in the VPs office
The Middle East's Leading English Language Daily
26/08/2004
http://www.arabnews.com:
Neocons With Dual Agendas and Divided Loyalties
Michael Saba, Special to Arab News
WASHINGTON, 28 February 2004 — Stephen Green, the author featured in
last week's story, "The Article That Almost Wasn't" wrote in the
foreword to "The Armageddon Network" 20 years ago, "What you are
about to read is first a spy story. It involves, in the classic
pattern, the apparent misappropriation of highly classified
documents belonging to the US Department of Defense and unauthorized
dissemination of these materials to a foreign government."
Green went on to say, "Those that are involved in the affair are
still `at large' and in fact currently hold senior positions in the
Pentagon...." and also states, "this is an unfinished story of a
possible cover-up and effort to abort the normal investigating and
prosecutorial processes..." Green is still pursuing some of the same
individuals who were featured in "The Armageddon Network" two
decades ago but many other American journalists and media outlets
refuse to confront this issue because even though it deals with
illicit activities with a foreign country, that country is
America's "sacred cow" — Israel.
Last week we noted that over 20 major publications had rejected
Green's current article titled "The Pentagon's Internal Security
Problem: Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, Ledeen" featured in the online
CounterPunch weekend edition of Feb. 28-29 entitled "Serving Two
Flags".
Green's article begins by pointing out that neoconservatives in the
Bush administration have effectively "gutted" traditional American
foreign and security policy. He states that notable features of the
new Bush doctrine include the pre-emptive use of unilateral force
and the undermining of the principal instruments and institutions of
international law including the UN all in the cause of fighting
terrorism and promoting homeland security.
Green adds that some feel that the underlying agenda of the neocons
is the alignment of US foreign and security policies with those of
Ariel Sharon and the Israeli right wing.
Green asks whether the neocons, many of whom are senior officials in
the Defense Department, National Security Council and the Office of
the Vice President, had dual agendas while professing to work for
the security of the United States against its terrorist enemies. He
then proceeds to review the internal security backgrounds of some of
the most prominent neocons and concludes that by looking at their
security backgrounds, one can answer the questions that he poses in
the article.
The individuals named in Green's article include Stephen Bryen,
Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith.
Let's take a closer look at these individuals and how Green compiled
the information on each of them.
Stephen Bryen and Michael Ledeen currently serve on the United
States-China Economic Security and Review Commission. Both were
appointed by the Republican congressional leaders in early 2001.
Ledeen also serves as vice chairman of this China Commission.
Additionally, according to Green, with the support of Department of
Defense (DOD) Undersecretary Doulas Feith, Ledeen was employed as a
consultant to the now infamous Office of Special Plans (OSP) in the
DOD. Much has been written about the OSP and how major intelligence
that led the US into the most recent war with Iraq was "cooked" in
the OSP.
Green states that when a former senior FBI counterintelligence
official heard of Bryen's appointment to the China Commission, he
said "My God, that must mean he has a `Q' clearance. " A "Q"
clearance, which must be approved by the Department of Energy, is
the designation for Top Secret codeword clearance to access nuclear
technology.
Ledeen serving on both the China Commission and in the OSP would
have access to classified materials and therefore would require high
level security clearance.
Bryen and Ledeen have both been investigated by the US government
extensively for improperly passing information to Israel.
In April of 1979 Deputy Assistant Attorney General Robert Keuch
recommended in writing that Stephen Bryen, a staff member of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee undergo a Grand Jury hearing to
establish the basis for a prosecution of Bryen of espionage for
Israel. The investigation conducted over a year had over 1000 pages
of information documenting many issues regarding Bryan's
relationship with Israel and leaking information to Israel.
In Green's article he points out that after Bryen was appointed by
Richard Perle to a high level DOD position during the Reagan
administration and received another security clearance, he was
confronted various times by his colleagues and superiors including
current Assistant Secretary of State Richard Armitage about his
overzealous attempts to help export restricted technology to Israel.
Michael Ledeen was hired by the DOD as a consultant on terrorism in
1983 and his immediate superior was Assistant Secretary of Defense
Noel Koch. Koch told Green that Ledeen had somehow obtained
classified information that he should not have been allowed to see.
Koch then informed his executive assistant that Ledeen was to be
denied classified materials in the future.
In the mid-1990s Ledeen left the DOD and joined the National
Security Council (NSC) as a consultant. In that capacity, Ledeen
became a major player in the "Iran-Contra" scandal. Ledeen was noted
for carrying messages to then Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres.
Ledeen had his NSC security clearance downgraded while in that
position. He moved downward from Top Secret to Secret. Also in Iran-
Contra document Oliver North recommended that Ledeen "be asked to
take periodic polygraph examinations". Noel Koch testified that he
was suspicious of Ledeen because he learned that Ledeen was
negotiating the sale of US basic TOW missiles for $2500 each when
the normal cost to another foreign government was $6800 per missile.
Throughout their governmental careers, Bryen and Ledeen have
consistently been promoted to high-level defense and security
positions by their fellow neocons; former Defense Advisory Board
Chairman Richard Perle, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and
Undersecretary of
Defense Douglas Feith.
Journalist Sy Hersh has reported that in 1970 while Richard Perle
was working for Sen. Henry Jackson of Washington, Perle was caught
by an FBI wiretap discussing classified information with an official
at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC. And according to the New
York Times, in 1978 CIA Director Stansfield Turner asked Sen.
Jackson to fire Perle after Perle was named as a recipient of an
unauthorized disclosure of classified information. Perle is
currently embroiled in various other scandals including an
investigation into his business dealings with Conrad Black and the
Hollinger Corporation. Perle serves on the board of Hollinger and
allegedly received a multimillion dollar unreported payment which
potentially violates the law.
Paul Wolfowitz was brought into the US Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency (ACDA) in 1973. He was known, according to Green, for
his "strong attachment to Israel's security". In 1978 an
investigation was conducted after, according to Green, Wolfowitz
was "found to have provided a classified document on the proposed
sale of US arms to an Israeli official through an AIPAC (American
Israeli Public Affairs Committee) intermediary.
Also, according to Green, in 1990 when Wolfowitz was undersecretary
for policy in the DOD under then Secretary of Defense Richard
Cheney, an investigation was conducted that indicated "Wolfowitz had
been internally promoting the export to Israel of advanced AIM 9-M
air-to-air missles" which were a restricted security item.
Douglas Feith has long been a major supporter of Israel. In 1982
Feith was a Middle East analyst for the NSC initially working under
NSC head Richard Allen in the Reagan administration. When Allen was
replaced by Judge William Clark, he fired nine staff members
including Feith. According to Green, Feith was fired because he had
been the subject of an FBI inquiry into whether, without
authorization, he had provided classified information to a
representative of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Stephen Green cites credible individuals and substantive documents
in his article on these five current (as this article was being
written Richard Perle announced his resignation from the Defense
Policy Advisory Board) US government and government-related
organizations. Though some of the 22 media outlets that rejected his
article claimed there was "nothing new" in his piece, there is, in
fact, much new and previously unreported public information in his
commentary. That new information includes the 1978 inquiry on Paul
Wolfowitz, the circumstances behind the Feith firing in 1982, the
1988 incidents concerning Bryen and the information on Ledeen
provided by Noel Koch.
The most important point in the article is not just the
interconnections of these five neocons. Perle hired Bryen 1981 to
work at DOD. Wolfowitz hired Ledeen in 1981 as a special adviser. In
2001 Feith at DOD hired Ledeen as a consultant in the OSP.
Nor is it the assistance this group has given each other over the
years. In 1973 Perle used his influence to help Wolfowitz obtain a
job with the ACDA. In 1982 Perle assisted in hiring Feith at the
DOD. In 2001 Wolfowitz helped Feith get his appointment at DOD and
Feith appointed Perle as chairman of the Defense Policy Advisory
Board.
And whatever sympathies these officials have to Israel is their own
personal choice to which they have a right. Rather though, it is
much more important that despite extensive investigations and files
that exist on these individuals concerning leaking information to a
foreign government, they continue to receive top level government
positions and the highest level security clearances. It is not
necessarily what is in these files that determines whether they
receive security clearances, it is who does the hiring or appointing
and whether the appointer feels that the appointee should receive
the security clearance. And in the cases of Bryen, Ledeen, Perle,
Wolfowitz and Feith, they each have usually managed to be the
official that makes the decision about each other.
Former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia James Aikens in reviewing "The
Armageddon Network" in 1984 said, "(The Armageddon Network)
describes how high-placed American government officials have
confused their loyalties; the story is a frightening one. Even more
frightening is the failure of the American government to determine
what damage has been done to the United States through their
misguided action. The book is an instructive lesson on how the
American government can be manipulated."
Sound familiar?
— Dr. Michael Saba is the author of "The Armageddon Network" and is
an international relations consultant. | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 1:47 am Post subject: Re: Neocons With Dual Agendas and Divided Loyalties |
| | Alpha wrote: | Forwarded:
...so they caught another spy..what about the big fish .. the big
spies, wolfi , feith.,luti and the boys in the VPs office
The Middle East's Leading English Language Daily
26/08/2004
http://www.arabnews.com:
Neocons With Dual Agendas and Divided Loyalties
Michael Saba, Special to Arab News
WASHINGTON, 28 February 2004 — Stephen Green, the author featured in
last week's story, "The Article That Almost Wasn't" wrote in the
foreword to "The Armageddon Network" 20 years ago, "What you are
about to read is first a spy story. It involves, in the classic
pattern, the apparent misappropriation of highly classified
documents belonging to the US Department of Defense and unauthorized
dissemination of these materials to a foreign government."
Green went on to say, "Those that are involved in the affair are
still `at large' and in fact currently hold senior positions in the
Pentagon...." and also states, "this is an unfinished story of a
possible cover-up and effort to abort the normal investigating and
prosecutorial processes..." Green is still pursuing some of the same
individuals who were featured in "The Armageddon Network" two
decades ago but many other American journalists and media outlets
refuse to confront this issue because even though it deals with
illicit activities with a foreign country, that country is
America's "sacred cow" — Israel.
Last week we noted that over 20 major publications had rejected
Green's current article titled "The Pentagon's Internal Security
Problem: Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, Ledeen" featured in the online
CounterPunch weekend edition of Feb. 28-29 entitled "Serving Two
Flags".
Green's article begins by pointing out that neoconservatives in the
Bush administration have effectively "gutted" traditional American
foreign and security policy. He states that notable features of the
new Bush doctrine include the pre-emptive use of unilateral force
and the undermining of the principal instruments and institutions of
international law including the UN all in the cause of fighting
terrorism and promoting homeland security.
Green adds that some feel that the underlying agenda of the neocons
is the alignment of US foreign and security policies with those of
Ariel Sharon and the Israeli right wing.
Green asks whether the neocons, many of whom are senior officials in
the Defense Department, National Security Council and the Office of
the Vice President, had dual agendas while professing to work for
the security of the United States against its terrorist enemies. He
then proceeds to review the internal security backgrounds of some of
the most prominent neocons and concludes that by looking at their
security backgrounds, one can answer the questions that he poses in
the article.
The individuals named in Green's article include Stephen Bryen,
Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith.
Let's take a closer look at these individuals and how Green compiled
the information on each of them.
Stephen Bryen and Michael Ledeen currently serve on the United
States-China Economic Security and Review Commission. Both were
appointed by the Republican congressional leaders in early 2001.
Ledeen also serves as vice chairman of this China Commission.
Additionally, according to Green, with the support of Department of
Defense (DOD) Undersecretary Doulas Feith, Ledeen was employed as a
consultant to the now infamous Office of Special Plans (OSP) in the
DOD. Much has been written about the OSP and how major intelligence
that led the US into the most recent war with Iraq was "cooked" in
the OSP.
Green states that when a former senior FBI counterintelligence
official heard of Bryen's appointment to the China Commission, he
said "My God, that must mean he has a `Q' clearance. " A "Q"
clearance, which must be approved by the Department of Energy, is
the designation for Top Secret codeword clearance to access nuclear
technology.
Ledeen serving on both the China Commission and in the OSP would
have access to classified materials and therefore would require high
level security clearance.
Bryen and Ledeen have both been investigated by the US government
extensively for improperly passing information to Israel.
In April of 1979 Deputy Assistant Attorney General Robert Keuch
recommended in writing that Stephen Bryen, a staff member of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee undergo a Grand Jury hearing to
establish the basis for a prosecution of Bryen of espionage for
Israel. The investigation conducted over a year had over 1000 pages
of information documenting many issues regarding Bryan's
relationship with Israel and leaking information to Israel.
In Green's article he points out that after Bryen was appointed by
Richard Perle to a high level DOD position during the Reagan
administration and received another security clearance, he was
confronted various times by his colleagues and superiors including
current Assistant Secretary of State Richard Armitage about his
overzealous attempts to help export restricted technology to Israel.
Michael Ledeen was hired by the DOD as a consultant on terrorism in
1983 and his immediate superior was Assistant Secretary of Defense
Noel Koch. Koch told Green that Ledeen had somehow obtained
classified information that he should not have been allowed to see.
Koch then informed his executive assistant that Ledeen was to be
denied classified materials in the future.
In the mid-1990s Ledeen left the DOD and joined the National
Security Council (NSC) as a consultant. In that capacity, Ledeen
became a major player in the "Iran-Contra" scandal. Ledeen was noted
for carrying messages to then Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres.
Ledeen had his NSC security clearance downgraded while in that
position. He moved downward from Top Secret to Secret. Also in Iran-
Contra document Oliver North recommended that Ledeen "be asked to
take periodic polygraph examinations". Noel Koch testified that he
was suspicious of Ledeen because he learned that Ledeen was
negotiating the sale of US basic TOW missiles for $2500 each when
the normal cost to another foreign government was $6800 per missile.
Throughout their governmental careers, Bryen and Ledeen have
consistently been promoted to high-level defense and security
positions by their fellow neocons; former Defense Advisory Board
Chairman Richard Perle, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and
Undersecretary of
Defense Douglas Feith.
Journalist Sy Hersh has reported that in 1970 while Richard Perle
was working for Sen. Henry Jackson of Washington, Perle was caught
by an FBI wiretap discussing classified information with an official
at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC. And according to the New
York Times, in 1978 CIA Director Stansfield Turner asked Sen.
Jackson to fire Perle after Perle was named as a recipient of an
unauthorized disclosure of classified information. Perle is
currently embroiled in various other scandals including an
investigation into his business dealings with Conrad Black and the
Hollinger Corporation. Perle serves on the board of Hollinger and
allegedly received a multimillion dollar unreported payment which
potentially violates the law.
Paul Wolfowitz was brought into the US Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency (ACDA) in 1973. He was known, according to Green, for
his "strong attachment to Israel's security". In 1978 an
investigation was conducted after, according to Green, Wolfowitz
was "found to have provided a classified document on the proposed
sale of US arms to an Israeli official through an AIPAC (American
Israeli Public Affairs Committee) intermediary.
Also, according to Green, in 1990 when Wolfowitz was undersecretary
for policy in the DOD under then Secretary of Defense Richard
Cheney, an investigation was conducted that indicated "Wolfowitz had
been internally promoting the export to Israel of advanced AIM 9-M
air-to-air missles" which were a restricted security item.
Douglas Feith has long been a major supporter of Israel. In 1982
Feith was a Middle East analyst for the NSC initially working under
NSC head Richard Allen in the Reagan administration. When Allen was
replaced by Judge William Clark, he fired nine staff members
including Feith. According to Green, Feith was fired because he had
been the subject of an FBI inquiry into whether, without
authorization, he had provided classified information to a
representative of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Stephen Green cites credible individuals and substantive documents
in his article on these five current (as this article was being
written Richard Perle announced his resignation from the Defense
Policy Advisory Board) US government and government-related
organizations. Though some of the 22 media outlets that rejected his
article claimed there was "nothing new" in his piece, there is, in
fact, much new and previously unreported public information in his
commentary. That new information includes the 1978 inquiry on Paul
Wolfowitz, the circumstances behind the Feith firing in 1982, the
1988 incidents concerning Bryen and the information on Ledeen
provided by Noel Koch.
The most important point in the article is not just the
interconnections of these five neocons. Perle hired Bryen 1981 to
work at DOD. Wolfowitz hired Ledeen in 1981 as a special adviser. In
2001 Feith at DOD hired Ledeen as a consultant in the OSP.
Nor is it the assistance this group has given each other over the
years. In 1973 Perle used his influence to help Wolfowitz obtain a
job with the ACDA. In 1982 Perle assisted in hiring Feith at the
DOD. In 2001 Wolfowitz helped Feith get his appointment at DOD and
Feith appointed Perle as chairman of the Defense Policy Advisory
Board.
And whatever sympathies these officials have to Israel is their own
personal choice to which they have a right. Rather though, it is
much more important that despite extensive investigations and files
that exist on these individuals concerning leaking information to a
foreign government, they continue to receive top level government
positions and the highest level security clearances. It is not
necessarily what is in these files that determines whether they
receive security clearances, it is who does the hiring or appointing
and whether the appointer feels that the appointee should receive
the security clearance. And in the cases of Bryen, Ledeen, Perle,
Wolfowitz and Feith, they each have usually managed to be the
official that makes the decision about each other.
Former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia James Aikens in reviewing "The
Armageddon Network" in 1984 said, "(The Armageddon Network)
describes how high-placed American government officials have
confused their loyalties; the story is a frightening one. Even more
frightening is the failure of the American government to determine
what damage has been done to the United States through their
misguided action. The book is an instructive lesson on how the
American government can be manipulated."
Sound familiar?
— Dr. Michael Saba is the author of "The Armageddon Network" and is
an international relations consultant. |
What is not mentioned in the article above by Michael Saba is that Michael Ledeen, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle are ardent Zionist (racist) Jews associated with JINSA/CSP/PNAC:
http://www.robert-fisk.com/articles114.htm
The following is the 'Men from JINSA and CSP' article by Jason Vest which Robert Fisk refers to in the above article as having appeared in 'The Nation':
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020902&s=vest
Here is Stephen Green's article ('Serving Two Flags') which mentioned in the article above by Michael Saba:
http://www.counterpunch.org/green02282004.html
Here is an excellent article about Zionist Jew traitor to America Richard Perle who is also mentioned in the above articles:
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/02/12/Counterpunch_1.html
http://www.nowarforisrael.com/Rachel%20Corrie.htm
http://www.nowarforisrael.com | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:20 am Post subject: Zionist Damage Control |
| Zionist damage control (so why do Wolfowitz and Feith get to remain at the Pentagon when it has been established that they have spied for Israel):
w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m
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Last update - 02:19 30/08/2004
U.S. sources: Spy charges unlikely in Pentagon mole affair
By Nathan Guttman, Haaretz Correspondent
WASHINGTON - The U.S. administration believes that the Federal Bureau of Investigation will refrain from charging suspected Pentagon mole Larry Franklin with espionage, American media said Sunday. The FBI apparently lacks any evidence that the Pentagon data analyst was operated by either Israel or the American Israel Public Affairs Commitee (AIPAC).
Franklin, an analyst in the Pentagon's Near East and South Asia Bureau, could be charged with mishandling a classified document. However, the FBI has yet to make an official pronouncement on whether Franklin will be arrested and what charges he might face. Nevertheless, investigators are broadening their probe and interviewing figures at the Defense Department, the State Department and outside the administration.
The investigation currently centers on a single document relating to a discussion held by senior administration officials about U.S. policy on Iran. Franklin is suspected of handing the document - which was classified - to AIPAC, which conveyed the document or its contents to Israeli government representatives.
In its latest edition, Newsweek magazine claims that the FBI began investigating Franklin after tailing an Israeli embassy official in Washington who met an AIPAC representative for lunch. Franklin reportedly approached their table and engaged in a warm conversation with them. The magazine also said Franklin was once posted at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv when he served in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. The magazine said FBI counterintelligence agents were following Franklin when they saw him attempt to pass a classified policy document on Iran to an unnamed surveillance target.
The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday that Franklin may have conveyed the classified information innocently, not realizing he was breaking the law. "The man is not a spy, he's an idiot," an official familiar with the investigations told the paper.
The New York Times reported Sunday that the FBI has been in contact with Franklin for about a month, and is seeking his cooperation.
The newspaper also reported that two high-profile officials might be called to give testimony in the case. A government official familiar with the case said that FBI officials had expressed an interest in interviewing two of Franklin's superiors, Douglas Feith, the undersecretary of defense for policy, and Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, although there is no sign they are a focus of the probe. It was unclear whether the FBI had decided to go ahead with those interviews, the paper said.
Israeli sources said that Israel has not received a request from any branch of the administration for information or clarifications relating to the Franklin investigation. Neither has Israel initiated contact at any level to find out about the allegations or provide explanations to the Americans. "It's being handled solely on the media front," an Israeli official said.
Military Intelligence chief Major General Aharon Ze'evi on Sunday denied that Israel is collecting intelligence information in the United States.
"We are not running any operatives or collecting intelligence in the U.S.," he said. "The U.S. is an ally; I believe that this is an internal problem." Ze'evi was speaking at a meeting with Druze leaders in the Western Galilee town of Beit Ja'an.
Minister Natan Sharansky earlier on Sunday said that the spying allegations are false and may be the result of internal conflicts between the Pentagon and the CIA.
AIPAC has made no change in its events scheduled to coincide with the Republican National Convention opening Monday in New York. Sunday the lobby co-hosted with other Jewish organizations a major event in New York that was supposed to feature senior Republican Party officials. Jewish sources were hopeful Sunday that the affair will die down in a few days and wind up as an ordinary investigation into a leak, not an espionage scandal. American media outlets Sunday devoted less attention to the mole story, with headlines given over to pre-convention protests in New York.
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| Keep in mind when reading the following article that Carl Boggs has written a book ('Masters of War') which conveys that JINSA Zionist extremist (racist Jew) Michael Ledeen is an admirer of the Italian fascists:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6808.htm
Fomenting a War on Iran
Juan Cole (a very respected professor and commentator on the Middle East at the University of Michigan)
08/29/04 "ICH" -- Here is my take on the Lawrence Franklin espionage scandal in the Pentagon.
It is an echo of the one-two punch secretly planned by the pro-Likud faction in the Department of Defense. First, Iraq would be taken out by the United States, and then Iran . David Wurmser, a key member of the group, also wanted Syria included. These pro-Likud intellectuals concluded that 9/11 would give them carte blanche to use the Pentagon as Israel's Gurkha regiment, fighting elective wars on behalf of Tel Aviv (not wars that really needed to be fought, but wars that the Likud coalition thought it would be nice to see fought so as to increase Israel's ability to annex land and act aggressively, especially if someone else's boys did the dying).
Franklin is a reserve Air Force colonel and former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst. He was an attache at the US embassy in Tel Aviv at one point, which some might now see as suspicious. After the Cold War ended, Franklin became concerned with Iran as a threat to Israel and the US, and learned a little Persian (not very much--I met him once at a conference and he could only manage a few halting phrases of Persian). Franklin has a strong Brooklyn accent and says he is "from the projects." I was told by someone at the Pentagon that he is not Jewish, despite his strong association with the predominantly Jewish neoconservatives. I know that he is very close to Paul Wolfowitz. He seems a canny man and a political operator, and if he gave documents to AIPAC it was not an act of simple stupidity, as some observers have suggested. It was part of some clever scheme that became too clever by half.
Franklin moved over to the Pentagon from DIA, where he became the Iran expert, working for Bill Luti and Undersecretary of Defense for Planning, Douglas Feith. He was the "go to" person on Iran for Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, and for Feith. This situation is pretty tragic, since Franklin is not a real Iranist. His main brief appears to have been to find ways to push a policy of overthrowing its government (apparently once Iraq had been taken care of). This project has been pushed by the shadowy eminence grise, Michael Ledeen, for many years, and Franklin coordinated with Ledeen in some way. Franklin was also close to Harold Rhode, a long-time Middle East specialist in the Defense Department who has cultivated far right pro-Likud cronies for many years, more or less establishing a cell within the Department of Defense.
UPI via Dawn reports ,
' An UPI report said another under-investigation official Mr Rhode "practically lived out of (Ahmad) Chalabi's office". Intelligence sources said that CIA operatives observed Mr Rhode as being constantly on his cell phone to Israel, discussing US plans, military deployments, political projects and a discussion of Iraq assets. '
Josh Marshall et al. have just published a piece in the Washington Monthly that details Franklin's meetings with corrupt Iranian arms dealer and con man Manuchehr Ghorbanifar, who had in the 1980s played a key role in the Iran-contra scandal. It is absolutely key that the meetings were attended also by Rhode, Ledeen and the head of Italy's military intelligence agency, SISMI, Nicolo Pollari, as well as Rome's Minister of Defense, Antonio Martino.
The rightwing government of corrupt billionnaire Silvio Berlusconi, including Martino, was a big supporter of an Iraq war. Moreover, we know that the forged documents falsely purporting to show Iraqi uranium purchases from Niger originated with a former SISMI agent. Watch the reporting of Josh Marshall for more on this SISMI/Ledeen/Rhode connection.
But journalist Matthew Yglesias has already tipped us to a key piece of information. The Niger forgeries also try to implicate Iran . Indeed, the idea of a joint Iraq/Iran nuclear plot was so far-fetched that it is what initially made the Intelligence and Research division of the US State Department suspicious of the forgeries, even before the discrepancies of dates and officials in Niger were noticed. Yglesisas quotes from the Senate report on the alleged Iraqi attempt to buy uranium from Niger:
' The INR [that's State Department intelligence] nuclear analyst told the Committee staff that the thing that stood out immediately about the [forged] documents was that a companion document -- a document included with the Niger documents that did not relate to uranium -- mentioned some type of military campaign against major world powers. The members of the alleged military campaign included both Iraq and Iran and was, according to the documents, being orchestrated through the Nigerien [note: that's not the same as Nigerian] Embassy in Rome, which all struck the analyst as "completely implausible." Because the stamp on this document matched the stamp on the uranium document [the stamp was supposed to establish the documents bona fides], the analyst thought that all of the documents were likely suspect. The analyst was unaware at the time of any formatting problems with the documents or inconsistencies with the names or dates. '
Journalist Eric Margolis notes of SISMI:
SISMI has long been notorious for far right, even neo-fascist, leanings. According to Italian judicial investigators, SISMI was deeply involved in numerous plots against Italy’s democratic government, including the 1980 Bologna train station terrorist bombing that left 85 dead and 200 injured. Senior SISMI officers were in cahoots with celebrated swindler Roberto Calvi, the neo-fascist P2 Masonic Lodge, other extreme rightist groups trying to destabilize Italy, the Washington neocon operative, Michael Ledeen, and the Iran-Contra conspirators. SISMI works hand in glove with US, British and Israeli intelligence. In the 1960’s and 70’s, SISMI reportedly carried out numerous operations for CIA, including bugging the Vatican, the Italian president’s palace, and foreign embassies. Italy’s civilian intelligence service, SISDE, associated with Italy’s political center-left, has long been a bitter rival of SISMI. After CIA rejected the Niger file, it was eagerly snapped up by VP Dick Cheney and his chief of staff, Lewis Libby, who were urgently seeking any reason, no matter how specious, to invade Iraq. Cheney passed the phony data to Bush, who used it in his January, 2003 address to the nation in spite of warnings from CIA . . .
So Franklin, Ledeen, and Rhode, all of them pro-Likud operatives, just happen to be meeting with SISMI (the proto-fascist purveyor of the false Niger uranium story about Iraq and the alleged Iran-Iraq plot against the rest of the world) and corrupt Iranian businessman and would-be revolutionary, Ghorbanifar, in Europe. The most reasonable conclusion is that they were conspiring together about the Next Campaign after Iraq, which they had already begun setting in train, which is to get Iran.
But now The Jerusalem Post reveals that at least one of the meetings was quite specific with regard to an attempt to torpedo better US/Iran relations:
The purpose of the meeting with Ghorbanifar was to undermine a pending deal that the White House had been negotiating with the Iranian government. At the time, Iran had considered turning over five al-Qaida operatives in exchange for Washington dropping its support for Mujahadeen Khalq, an Iraq-based rebel Iranian group listed as a terrorist organization by the State Department.
The Neoconservatives have some sort of shadowy relationship with the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization or MEK. Presumably its leaders have secretly promised to recognize Israel if they ever succeed in overthrowing the ayatollahs in Iran. When the US recently categorized the MEK as a terrorist organization, there were howls of outrage from scholars associated with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (a wing of AIPAC), such as Patrick Clawson and Daniel Pipes. MEK is a terrorist organization by any definition of the term, having blown up innocent people in the course of its struggle against the Khomeini government. (MEK is a cult-like mixture of Marx and Islam). The MEK had allied with Saddam, who gave them bases in Iraq from which to hit Iran. When the US overthrew Saddam, it raised the question of what to do with the MEK. The pro-Likud faction in the Pentagon wanted to go on developing their relationship with the MEK and using it against Tehran.
So it transpires that the Iranians were willing to give up 5 key al-Qaeda operatives, whom they had captured, in return for MEK members.
Franklin, Rhode and Ledeen conspired with Ghorbanifar and SISMI to stop that trade. It would have led to better US-Iran relations, which they wanted to forestall, and it would have damaged their proteges, the MEK.
Since high al-Qaeda operatives like Saif al-Adil and possibly even Saad Bin Laden might know about future operations, or the whereabouts of Bin Laden, for Franklin and Rhode to stop the trade grossly endangered the United States.
The FBI has evidence that Franklin passed a draft presidential directive on Iran to AIPAC, which then passed it to the Israelis. The FBI is construing these actions as espionage or something close to it. But that is like getting Al Capone on tax evasion. Franklin was not giving the directive to AIPAC in order to provide them with information. He was almost certainly seeking feedback from them on elements of it. He was asking, "Do you like this? Should it be changed in any way?" And, he might also have been prepping AIPAC for the lobbying campaign scheduled for early in 2005, when Congress will have to be convinced to authorize military action, or at least covert special operations, against Iran. AIPAC probably passed the directive over to Israel for the same reason--not to inform, but to seek input. That is, AIPAC and Israel were helping write US policy toward Iran, just as they had played a key role in fomenting the Iraq war.
With both Iraq and Iran in flames, the Likud Party could do as it pleased in the Middle East without fear of reprisal. This means it could expel the Palestinians from the West Bank to Jordan, and perhaps just give Gaza back to Egypt to keep Cairo quiet. Annexing southern Lebanon up to the Litani River, the waters of which Israel has long coveted, could also be undertaken with no consequences, they probably think, once Hizbullah in Lebanon could no longer count on Iranian support. The closed character of the economies of Iraq and Iran, moreover, would end, allowing American, Italian and British companies to make a killing after the wars (so they thought).
Franklin's movements reveal the contours of a rightwing conspiracy of warmongering and aggression, an orgy of destruction, for the benefit of the Likud Party, of Silvio Berlusconi's business in the Middle East, and of the Neoconservative Right in the United States. It isn't about spying. It is about conspiring to conscript the US government on behalf of a foreign power or powers.
Juan Cole is Professor of History at the University of Michigan
Reprinted with permission www.juancole.com | | | | Alpha | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 1:53 pm Post subject: Neo-Con Spies |
| http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/OPED/09-2004/Article-20040920-1bc4b472-c0a8-01ed-0029-df8a5e8869e0/story.html
(Neo-Con Spies)
Jihad Al Khazen Al-Hayat 2004/09/20
As of today, I will be discussing the neo-conservatives' spying for Israel, based on the interrogation of Lawrence Franklin, an analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency who belongs to the Israeli gang, and who allegedley passed highly classified draft documents regarding the United States policy towards Iran to two members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman.
For the past two years, the FBI has been investigating information about AIPAC receiving secret U.S. documents and transferring them to Israel. This came prior to Franklin's affair, whose name appeared within a wide investigation about spying for Israel. It seems that the FBI caught Franklin while tapping AIPAC's activity.
Rosen and Weissman acted in a way that confirmed the accusation, as while they were being questioned by the FBI, they suddenly stopped talking and asked for their lawyers.
The accused found no one to defend them other than Likudnik extremists, such as warmonger Michael Ledeen, who decided that there was no essence for the accusation, as if he knew what the investigators did not find out over two years. They also received support from the national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Abraham Foxman, who insolently demanded that the source who leaked this information to the press be investigated, as spying for Israel is less important than protecting the U.S. secrets from falling in the hands of Israel's spies; in fact, the leaking aimed at stopping the investigation, because Franklin cooperated with the investigators.
This complicated issue tackles the stealing of the drafts of the President's instructions, stealing sensitive wiretapped information from the National Security Agency, the activity of Douglas Feith's office, his dealing with the Iraqi National Congress (INC) in order to create or exaggerate information, and leak the name of CIA agent Valery Plame to the press, as well as falsifying documents concerning Iraq's attempt to buy uranium from Nigeria …In sum, all the lies that led to the war on Iraq, which did not end yet, and is causing the death of young American soldiers everyday.
The wide investigation rapidly discovered Steven Green, who is among the best who wrote about spying for Israel. When FBI agents asked to meet him, he thought they were seeking information about Franklin; however, he discovered that the investigators had already launched a wide campaign, and wanted details about Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Stephen Bryen, Douglas Feith, and other neo-cons in the Pentagon Office of Special Plans (OSP).
The reader will see these names repeated throughout my study, and will discover that the new accusations have been repeated for decades, without ending in a condemnation. I relied on information from Green and other American experts in the field.
I hold the neo-cons accountable for the death of more than 1,000 Americans, as well as 2,000 Iraqis, and ask for their trial. I also think that the current investigation will not lead to any accusations or trials, and the neo-cons will keep spying for Israel, to whom they are loyal.
I will reveal in my upcoming columns that the neo-cons have been accused over and over again of leaking secret information to Israel; but every time, the investigation was halted. The only exception is the case of Jonathan Pollard, which was too obvious to be dissimulated; as Pollard was stupid enough to carry the secret documents in suitcases and brag about his spying, until he paid the price.
I will provide the reader with a list of accusations directed to neo-cons like Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Michael Ledeen and others, and which go back to the 1960s until today. The reader will realize that history repeats itself; AIPAC received secret documents in the past, a thing that created a chaos, which was soon tamed, without anyone being held accountable.
This happened when the Secretary of Justice was not yet John Ashcroft, the reborn-Christian who believes that Israel's victory is necessary in order for the world to be destroyed by the Antichrist, so that the real savior would come back and rescue the world.
I believe that the current investigation will end just like the previous ones did, but I wish I could be wrong. I do not think there is a conspiracy theory here, as one of the conditions of a conspiracy theory is secrecy, and the neo-cons, be they members of the administration, academics, or journalists, openly declare their stances. While they all agree on the goal, they differ in the type of work and the amount of effort.
The issue I am discussing today might be the biggest neo-cons gathering, as well as the most dangerous, knowing the importance of the Department of Defense, where Paul Wolfowitz is Deputy Secretary, and Douglas Feith is under-Secretary of Defense for Policy, i.e. the two most important men in the Pentagon after Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
What is built on error could only lead to error. The neo-cons worked within the DoD in order to implement their old policy against Iraq through the OSP, which was established by the Secretary of Defense and his Deputy in order to provide information about a link between Saddam Hussein's regime and Al Qaeda. We know today that the American official investigations denied the existence of such a relation; however, the neo-cons promoted its existence, like they promoted the existence of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), without having certified information on both. Their accusations were based on information given by Iraqi excommunicates who flee their country under the supervision of opposition members who wanted to topple Saddam Hussein's regime; this is enough of a reason to doubt any word they utter.
Pro-Israeli DoD officials did not complain about such unreliable information, as they suited their desires.
Douglas Feith supervised the OSP as well as the DoD's Near East and South Asia bureau (NESA); the first was headed by Abraham Shulsky, and the second by William Luti. Among others who worked with them was Michael Robin, a Middle East "expert" who belongs to the same gang, and who came via the neo-cons' nest, American Enterprises; there is also David Shenker of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), as well as Michael Makovsky, whose brother David Makovsky is a WINEP member, and former editor-in-chief of the Likudnik Jerusalem Post.
Nobody could even claim that all those Jewish Americans (Israelis) found themselves at the same place by coincidence, that all of them erred in evaluating intelligence information also by coincidence, and that they exaggerated or lied about this information in order to push the U.S. into a war where the number of American victims exceeded the 1,000 this month, also by coincidence. I continue tomorrow. | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 2:44 pm Post subject: Neo-Con Spies II |
| Jihad Al Khazen Al-Hayat 2004/09/21
http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/OPED/09-2004/Article-20040921-2213d9cd-c0a8-01ed-000b-9a72e21d81ba/story.html
(Neo-Con Spies II)
The strangest thing in the scandal of spying for
Israel is the existence of a scandal in the first
place; the people involved in it have been accused of
spying for Israel for decades. The scandal is that
they are allowed to be in key positions within the
U.S. administration, after having been subject to
investigations that are exactly like the current one,
concerning the accusation of leaking secret
information to Israel.
Douglas Feith is a famous extremist who does not
deserve to be in a high-ranking position within the
Department of Defense (DoD); while we know about his
objection to all peace negotiations in the Middle
East, including the Oslo Accords, he publicly opposed
the Biological Weapons Convention (in 1986), the
Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty (in 1988), the
Chemical Weapons Convention (in 1997), the
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (in 2000). He wrote an
article in Commentary magazine in 1992 saying: "It is
in the interest of U.S. and Israel to remove needless
impediments to technological cooperation between them.
Technologies in the hands of responsible, friendly
countries facing military threats, countries like
Israel, serve to deter aggression, enhance regional
stability and promote peace thereby."
This statement justifies spying, as it means that the
U.S. must provide military technology to Israel, in
order to impose its hegemony and "peace" on the people
of the region. However, Israel is an expansionist
racist country, which must not be given any weapons,
as it sold the American technology to China, as well
as to others. More important than all of this is that
Feith's statement uncovers the way neo-conservatives
think about providing Israel with the secrets of
America's technology, a thing that explains Lawrence
Franklin's affair, who works with Feith, and who gave
secret documents to two workers from the Israeli
lobby. Neo-cons consider everything the U.S. possesses
to be "legitimate" for Israel to possess as well,
despite the fact that the American "spy law" clearly
forbids the transfer of information between one party
and another.
It might be that Franklin was inspired by his boss
Feith to transfer secret documents. In 1982, Feith was
expelled from his position at the National Security
Council, after he was subject to an investigation
concerning his leaking of secret information to an
official at the Israeli Embassy in Washington.
However, Richard Perle, who was DoD Assistant
Secretary for International Security Policy (ISP) back
then, joined Feith to himself in ISP as his Special
Counsel, and then as Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Negotiations Policy. Feith left the department in
1986, in order to establish a law firm in Israel with
his Israeli partner.
Once again, it should not have been allowed for an
accused of the type of Feith to be appointed a key
position in the American administration during the
1980s or today. But his story with Perle reminds us of
a story which hero, or anti-hero, is Stephen Bryen.
In April of 1979, Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Robert Keuch recommended in writing that Bryen, then a
staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, undergo a grand jury hearing to establish
the basis for a prosecution for espionage. The issue
is known, as I heard it from my friend Michael Saba at
the Madison Hotel, while he was showing secret
documents to a visiting Israeli official. This also
occurred in the presence of the director of AIPAC, or
the Jewish lobby. It turned out that the official was
Zvi Rafiah, the Mossad station chief in Washington. A
friend of Bryen testified that she heard him talking
to Rafiah in his office about secret documents (some
of which referring to Saudi military bases). Bryen was
not convicted because the Committee on Foreign
Relations refused to give the Department of Justice
the required documents that Bryen wanted to leak to
Israel, and asked for him to resign from his position
in the committee.
Believe it or not, this man who is accused of spying,
found his way to an even more sensitive position. In
1981, Richard Perle was appointed DoD Assistant
Secretary for International Security Policy (ISP); he
hired Bryen as his Deputy, which requires giving the
latter the permission to view secret documents. When
Perle was faced with this issue during the Congress
investigation to fix him in his position, he said: I
consider Dr. Bryen to be a completely honest man, and
I fully trust his values and patriotism.
It is an Israeli patriotism like that of Perle, as the
new employees have loyalty to Israel only. Bryen
remained faithful to his Israeli patriotism, as in the
year 1988, Israel needed spare parts for its Arrow
Missile, which were of the most important secret
American technology that was not available for
exporting. But Bryen asked the DoD for a permission
for Varian Associates, Inc. to export the parts to
Israel. All high-ranking officials of the department
refused to give their consent, and Bryen said that he
will ask the Israelis why they needed these parts in
specific. He came back to say that he received a
convincing reply, and that he would issue the
permission of exportation. But what happened at the
end was that the Depute Secretary of Defense Richard
Armitage, who is the current Depute Secretary of
State, sent a letter to Bryen asking him to inform the
State Department of the "complete refusal" of the DoD
to export. Bryen was obliged to withdraw the license,
and Varian Associates, Inc. became the first company
banned from contracts with the DoD.
The reader might have noticed that Perle's name was
repeated during the talk about the activities of Feith
and Bryen; he was an Israeli collaborator from the
first and until today. Perle worked for Senator Henry
(Scoop) Jackson in 1969; not a year had passed until
the axis of the investigation about leaking a secret
report to the CIA about claimed special Soviet
armament treaties. He officially asked Senator Jackson
to expel Perle, but was content with reproaching him.
A year went by and Perle was subject to a new
investigation, as the FBI was tapping the phone calls
of the Israeli embassy, and they recorded a phone call
where Perle was preparing for providing them with
secret information. Perle was subject to financial
questionings throughout his professional life, for
receiving a consultant salary for the Israeli Tamaris
SA Group which produces arms in 1981, and receiving
millions of dollars in 2004 from Hollinger, via his
Likudnik friend Conrad Black.
It would be funny for Perle to fall for the last time
in a financial affair, after he has worked for Israel
for over four decades, and helped in guiding the
American policy to harm the American interests, and
ended up in Iraq with thousands of casualties from
young Americans, without having a cause to defend; I
continue tomorrow. | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 2:53 pm Post subject: Neo-Con Spies III |
| Neo-Con Spies III
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(Neo-Con Spies III)
Jihad Al Khazen Al-Hayat 2004/09/23
I will continue today with the neo-conservatives and their spying for Israel. I have known the neo-cons since Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle used to work for Democratic Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson. The neo-cons are neither Democrats nor Republicans, but shift from one party to the other for the service of Israel, on the account of America. After the United States was the most popular among Arabs, the constant American question has become today: why do they hate us?
To go back to the spying issue, we would see that Wolfowitz, the companion of Perle and the rest of the Israeli cabal, was not exempt from being subject to investigations. In 1978, he was investigated after being accused of giving documents of an American weapons deal with Saudi Arabia to an Israeli government official, via an American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) mediator again and again.
In 1990, after 10 years of working at the State Department in Washington and outside it, Wolfowitz moved to the Department of Defense (DoD) to work as Cheney's (who was Secretary of Defense) Under Secretary for Policy. Two years went by when an investigation started about Israel transmitting to China the technology of American Patriot Missiles. It turned out that Wolfowitz's office was promoting the selling of M-9 Missiles to Israel, in an incident that resembles the attempt of Stephen Bryen to sell Israel spare parts for the Arrow Missile.
Wolfowitz left the DoD during Bill Clinton's term, and kept working for Israel from abroad. In 1998, Wolfowitz was a co-signer of a public letter to the President organized by the "Project for the New American Century." The letter, citing Saddam Hussein's continued possession of "weapons of mass destruction," argued for military action to achieve regime change and demilitarization of Iraq.
Clinton was too intelligent to be fooled, but the neo-cons pushed the Bush administration into an unjustified war that killed American youth for the protection of Israel, despite the fact that Iraq never presented a real threat to the security of Israel. When the terrorism of 9/11 occurred, it was first believed that 10,000 people were killed; nevertheless, on the second day after the terrorism of Al-Qaeda, Wolfowitz did not ask about the blood of the innocent victims, and his first suggestion was to attack Iraq.
My study will not be complete without talking about Michael Ledeen, one of the most dangerous neo-con preachers, and the defender of Sharon's Nazi government.
In 1983, on the recommendation of Richard Perle, Ledeen was hired at the
DoD as Consultant on Terrorism. His immediate supervisor was the Principle Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs, Noel Koch. Early in their work together, Koch noticed with concern Ledeen's habit of stopping by in his (Koch's) outer office to read classified materials. When the two of them took a trip to Italy, Koch learned from the CIA station there that when Ledeen had lived in Rome previously, as correspondent for The New Republic, he was carried in Agency files as an agent of influence of a foreign government: Israel. Some time after their return from the trip, Ledeen approached his boss with a request for his assistance in obtaining two highly classified CIA reports which he said were held by the FBI. He had hand written on a piece of paper the identifying "alpha numeric designators". These identifiers were as highly classified as the reports themselves, which raised in Koch's mind the question of who had provided them to Ledeen if he did not have the clearances to obtain them himself.
When Ledeen moved to work as a consultant for the National Security Council (NSC), Koch warned the FBI about his record of spying for Israel, without being accused, despite the fact that in early 1986, the Justice Department was in fact already engaged in several on-going, concurrent investigations of Israeli espionage and theft of American military technology. It seems that all high-ranking officials doubted Ledeen's behaviors; in 1985, National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane banned him from accessing operational information about the crisis with Iran; also, Secretary of State George Shultz asked for stopping Ledeen's offer for intelligence cooperation with Israel, as he found that Israel's agenda differs from that of American. On the same year, he decreased Ledeen's security authorization, in order to ban him from seeing top secret documents. On 16 January, 1986, staff member Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North recommended to the new head of the NSC John Poindexter that Ledeen be asked to take periodic polygraph examinations.
Ledeen clearly collapsed during the scandal of Iran-Contra, but I find his political ideas to be more dangerous than his direct work for Israel. After one month of the war on Iraq, he asked for launching a war on Iran. He wrote on April 30, 2003 an article for the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), where he uncovered himself by saying "It is time to focus on Iran, the mother of modern terrorism... The time for diplomacy is at an end; it is time for a free Iran, free Syria and free Lebanon," meaning it is time for America to launch a war on these countries, for the service of Israel.
Did the reader notice that what Ledeen wrote 18 months ago, is the issue of the moment for the U.S. administration, or the Israeli cabal within and around the administration? Throughout the 1990s, Ledeen wrote inciting to war against Iraq; he is now writing in demand of a war against Iran, and later Syria. He said in the Toronto Globe and Mail last year: nobody I know wants a war on Iran or Syria, but I think that we must defend ourselves.
I will stop here to say that Ledeen is defending the Israeli crimes, a thing that makes of him a partner in them; he also covers up for the Israeli daily terrorism, and talks about the terrorism of others instead. It is certain that the extension for President Emile Lahoud, the Syrian role in it, and the resolution of the Security Council, would provide a new substance for the likes of Ledeen, in order to ask for war on every country they see as a security threat on Israel; knowing that Iraq was just a beginning for them. This was one of the reasons for my objection to the extension for President Emile Lahoud, as this represented a weapon for the most dangerous enemy, to use against Syria and Lebanon. However, this is another issue, as I only ask the Syrian officials to be extremely cautious, as every extremist stance taken by the neo-cons, eventually becomes a policy for Dubya' s administration. I continue tomorrow.
<h1>Ayoon wa Azan (Neo-Con Spies III)</h1>
<h4>Jihad Al Khazen Al-Hayat 2004/09/23</h4>
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<p>I will continue today with the neo-conservatives and their spying for Israel. I have known the neo-cons since Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle used to work for Democratic Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson. The neo-cons are neither Democrats nor Republicans, but shift from one party to the other for the service of Israel, on the account of America. After the United States was the most popular among Arabs, the constant American question has become today: why do they hate us? </p>
<p>To go back to the spying issue, we would see that Wolfowitz, the companion of Perle and the rest of the Israeli cabal, was not exempt from being subject to investigations. In 1978, he was investigated after being accused of giving documents of an American weapons deal with Saudi Arabia to an Israeli government official, via an American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) mediator again and again.</p>
<p>In 1990, after 10 years of working at the State Department in Washington and outside it, Wolfowitz moved to the Department of Defense (DoD) to work as Cheney's (who was Secretary of Defense) Under Secretary for Policy. Two years went by when an investigation started about Israel transmitting to China the technology of American Patriot Missiles. It turned out that Wolfowitz's office was promoting the selling of M-9 Missiles to Israel, in an incident that resembles the attempt of Stephen Bryen to sell Israel spare parts for the Arrow Missile.</p>
<p>Wolfowitz left the DoD during Bill Clinton's term, and kept working for Israel from abroad. In 1998, Wolfowitz was a co-signer of a public letter to the President organized by the "Project for the New American Century." The letter, citing Saddam Hussein's continued possession of "weapons of mass destruction," argued for military action to achieve regime change and demilitarization of Iraq.</p>
<p>Clinton was too intelligent to be fooled, but the neo-cons pushed the Bush administration into an unjustified war that killed American youth for the protection of Israel, despite the fact that Iraq never presented a real threat to the security of Israel. When the terrorism of 9/11 occurred, it was first believed that 10,000 people were killed; nevertheless, on the second day after the terrorism of Al-Qaeda, Wolfowitz did not ask about the blood of the innocent victims, and his first suggestion was to attack Iraq.</p>
<p>My study will not be complete without talking about Michael Ledeen, one of the most dangerous neo-con preachers, and the defender of Sharon's Nazi government.</p>
<p>In 1983, on the recommendation of Richard Perle, Ledeen was hired at the<br>DoD as Consultant on Terrorism. His immediate supervisor was the Principle Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs, Noel Koch. Early in their work together, Koch noticed with concern Ledeen's habit of stopping by in his (Koch's) outer office to read classified materials. When the two of them took a trip to Italy, Koch learned from the CIA station there that when Ledeen had lived in Rome previously, as correspondent for <i>The New Republic</i>, he was carried in Agency files as an agent of influence of a foreign government: Israel. Some time after their return from the trip, Ledeen approached his boss with a request for his assistance in obtaining two highly classified CIA reports which he said were held by the FBI. He had hand written on a piece of paper the identifying "alpha numeric designators". These identifiers were as highly classified as the reports themselves, which raised in Koch's mind the question of who had provided them to Ledeen if he did not have the clearances to obtain them himself.</p>
<p>When Ledeen moved to work as a consultant for the National Security Council (NSC), Koch warned the FBI about his record of spying for Israel, without being accused, despite the fact that in early 1986, the Justice Department was in fact already engaged in several on-going, concurrent investigations of Israeli espionage and theft of American military technology. It seems that all high-ranking officials doubted Ledeen's behaviors; in 1985, National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane banned him from accessing operational information about the crisis with Iran; also, Secretary of State George Shultz asked for stopping Ledeen's offer for intelligence cooperation with Israel, as he found that Israel's agenda differs from that of American. On the same year, he decreased Ledeen's security authorization, in order to ban him from seeing top secret documents. On 16 January, 1986, staff member Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North recommended to the new head of the NSC John Poindexter that Ledeen be asked to take periodic polygraph examinations.</p>
<p>Ledeen clearly collapsed during the scandal of Iran-Contra, but I find his political ideas to be more dangerous than his direct work for Israel. After one month of the war on Iraq, he asked for launching a war on Iran. He wrote on April 30, 2003 an article for the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), where he uncovered himself by saying "It is time to focus on Iran, the mother of modern terrorism... The time for diplomacy is at an end; it is time for a free Iran, free Syria and free Lebanon," meaning it is time for America to launch a war on these countries, for the service of Israel.</p>
<p>Did the reader notice that what Ledeen wrote 18 months ago, is the issue of the moment for the U.S. administration, or the Israeli cabal within and around the administration? Throughout the 1990s, Ledeen wrote inciting to war against Iraq; he is now writing in demand of a war against Iran, and later Syria. He said in the <i>Toronto Globe and Mail</i> last year: nobody I know wants a war on Iran or Syria, but I think that we must defend ourselves.</p>
<p>I will stop here to say that Ledeen is defending the Israeli crimes, a thing that makes of him a partner in them; he also covers up for the Israeli daily terrorism, and talks about the terrorism of others instead. It is certain that the extension for President Emile Lahoud, the Syrian role in it, and the resolution of the Security Council, would provide a new substance for the likes of Ledeen, in order to ask for war on every country they see as a security threat on Israel; knowing that Iraq was just a beginning for them. This was one of the reasons for my objection to the extension for President Emile Lahoud, as this represented a weapon for the most dangerous enemy, to use against Syria and Lebanon. However, this is another issue, as I only ask the Syrian officials to be extremely cautious, as every extremist stance taken by the neo-cons, eventually becomes a policy for Dubya' s administration. I continue tomorrow | | | | | ©2002-2009 WarWithoutEnd.co.uk |
