Defense analyst (Larry Franklin) in (AIPAC) spy case was FBI double agent

[sabra]

Source: Wash Times

Larry Franklin, the former Pentagon analyst convicted of revealing classified information, says he worked undercover as an FBI double agent to gather information on the pro-Israel lobby in the United States before the bureau turned on him and pressured him to plead guilty to spying for Israel.

Talking to a U.S. newspaper for the first time since his arrest five years ago, Franklin told The Washington Times that he wore a portable recording device for the FBI to capture conversations between Keith Weissman, a lobbyist for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and Israeli Embassy official Naor Gilon and that he cooperated on other matters during a 10-week period in 2004.

He said he never sought to spy for Israel and felt betrayed when the same FBI agents whom he had assisted suddenly told him to get an attorney and threatened to send him to prison for disclosing classified information to AIPAC officials and the Israeli Embassy.

"I cooperated without a lawyer because I thought we were on the same side," Franklin said in a wide-ranging interview with The Times last week at the office of his attorney, Plato Cacheris. "And I was dumbfounded. I had no money, I told them, for a lawyer. They assigned me a lawyer who was paid by the government who wanted me to sign something that was anathema to me, an abomination."

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Franklin said the FBI first pressed him about working undercover in an investigation into alleged Israeli spying in the United States in May 2004, after he had become a subject of investigation into whether he provided sensitive information to reporters at CBS News on Iraqi exile leader Ahmed Chalabi's relations with Iran.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/29/former-double-agent-says-fbi-turned-on-him/

[joeybee12]

1. Hmmm...and he decided to "come clean" to the Washington Times because...

:crazy:

[awnobles]

2. Great cover,

Playing bith sides, getting immunity cover from both.

[fascisthunter]

3. sickening

[laststeamtrain]

4. The unibomber was actually working undercover to catch himself.

PS: We didn't go to the moon.

[sofa king]

5. Why isn't he dancing on a rope?

Nathan Hale this guy ain't.

[24601]

8. I believe the death penalty for espionage may not be in effect

any more except during declared war. And an "Authorized Use of Military Force" isn't a Declaration of War. Any lawyers out there know the answwer?

[daleo]

6. Double agent, triple agent, quadruple agent...

After a while, it's hard to keep track.

[starroute]

7. If he had no money for a lawyer, who's paying Cacheris?

This sort of expertise doesn't come cheap.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato_Cacheris

Cacheris has represented various figures in Washington, D.C. scandals, including:

* Defense of Attorney General John N. Mitchell, Watergate scandal figure.
* Defense of Fawn Hall, Iran-Contra scandal figure, who worked with Oliver North.
* Defense of Michael "Ozzy" Meyers, ABSCAM scandal.
* Co-representation, with Jake Stein, of Monica Lewinsky, associate of President William Clinton.
* Plea bargain for CIA agent, turned Russian spy, Aldrich Ames that enabled his wife to receive a lighter jail sentence for aiding and abetting Ames' espionage.
* Defense of Robert Hanssen, FBI agent and secret spy for the Soviet Union; a plea bargain allowed him to avoid the death penalty in exchange for complete cooperation in revealing his activities to the government, but not to the public. His wife would receive a "survivor" pension.


http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/23743

22 Nov 2005 // Michael Scanlon, a former press secretary to Rep. Tom DeLay, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to conspiracy to bribe public officials, a charge that grew out of a government investigation of attempts to defraud Indian tribes and corrupt a member of Congress.

Scanlon, 35, a public relations consultant working with former lobbyist Jack Abramoff from 2000 to 2004, promised as part of his plea agreement with the Justice Department to pay $19.6 million in restitution to the tribes, including the Tigua Tribe of El Paso. He admitted that the tribes had been defrauded while he and Abramoff represented them. . . .

Outside the courthouse, Scanlon's lawyer, Plato Cacheris, said: "He's obviously regretful for what happened to the tribes." Cacheris declined to comment on the possibility of other lawmakers being implicated in the investigation.

[kpete]

9. EXCLUSIVE: Defense analyst in spy case was FBI double agent-Breaks silence after guilty plea

Source: Washington Times

EXCLUSIVE: Defense analyst in spy case was FBI double agent
Breaks silence after guilty plea to spying for Israel

By Bill Gertz (Contact)



Larry Franklin, the former Pentagon analyst convicted of revealing classified information, says he worked undercover as an FBI double agent to gather information on the pro-Israel lobby in the United States before the bureau turned on him and pressured him to plead guilty to spying for Israel.

Talking to a U.S. newspaper for the first time since his arrest five years ago, Franklin told The Washington Times that he wore a portable recording device for the FBI to capture conversations between Keith Weissman, a lobbyist for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and Israeli Embassy official Naor Gilon and that he cooperated on other matters during a 10-week period in 2004.

He said he never sought to spy for Israel and felt betrayed when the same FBI agents whom he had assisted suddenly told him to get an attorney and threatened to send him to prison for disclosing classified information to AIPAC officials and the Israeli Embassy.

....................

"Franklin believes these two senior officials were the actual, main targets of the FBI investigation, which, he says, wanted to incriminate them through him on a charge of spying for Israel," Haaretz reported.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/29/former-double-agent-says-fbi-turned-on-him/

[Seldona]

10. K&R

nt

[kpete]

11. except

its the wash times?

[KoKo]

12. It is odd...agree...but years ago they broke story about Poppy Bush and Pedophiles and the Moonie

Influence in America. So...who knows. It's very interesting, though.

[UpInArms]

15. and Bill Sammon has moved on to FAUX snews

:shrug:

still owned by Rev Moon

[KoKo]

16. Indeed...odd.. hard to know what to think.

[troubledamerican]

17. Two options: Blackmail, or Modified Limited Hangout

When a captured, ultraright media outlet (Washington Times, FOX, ABC News) drops a bombshell that seems to attack their "base", it's either:

(a) blackmail/a shot across the bow, while still withholding primary information, OR

(b) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout -- which is poorly explained on Wikipedia. "Modified limited hangout" is the correct term. MLH means "disinfo that is substantially true but contains a poison pill of misdirection".

[mahatmakanejeeves]

13. The Washington Times

Bill Gertz is pretty highly regarded. The Washington Times got a new editor last year too, John Solomon. Yes, the same John Solomon who is behind some hit pieces, but he did make some changes at the Times.

[Seldona]

20. Source noted.

Still, an interesting read.

[cascadiance]

14. So, he was working for the FBI earlier? 1 more reason coverup(?) of Sibel Edmonds looks suspicious!

The coincidence I noticed with what appeared to be a google search coverup of news links through Google news around the times of his arrest seemed suspicious enough with what she's known about AIPAC-related issues. Now if he was working for the FBI, and SHE was also working for the FBI as a document translator then, HMMM!!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=39220

Something still smells here!

[mmonk]

18. Let's find out what we can.

Good catch.

[mmonk]

21. I've pm'ed you concerning what Sibel thinks.

She isn't placing faith in the story.

[On the Road]

19. If His Story is True

I am absolutely thrilled to know the FBI is conducting counterintelligence on Israeli spying.

[Sezu]

22. Of all the things people believe about the FBI

and other such agencies somehow believing there exists antisemitism in these organizations is so UNBELIEVABLE???

Give yer fucking heads a shake!!!!

[Snazzy]

23. we knew this 5 years ago

This is Wash Times neocons pushing back at FBI.