Lawrence Franklin

Lawrence Anthony Franklin is a former U.S. Air Force Reserve colonel and U.S. Department of Defense intelligence analyst who pleaded guilty to passing information to Israel about U.S. policy towards Iran. The information was passed to Israel through the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the leading pro-Israel lobbying organization in the U.S.

Two former AIPAC employees also face charges that they assisted Franklin in the AIPAC espionage scandal by passing classified information to Israeli diplomat Naor Gilon.

On January 20, 2006, Judge T. S. Ellis III sentenced Franklin to 151 months (almost 13 years) in prison and fined him $10,000. [1]

Franklin at the Office of Special Plans

Franklin worked for Douglas Feith at the Office of Special Plans in 2002 and 2003. Douglas Feith, who led the Office of Special Plans, sent Larry Franklin overseas repeatedly for sensitive projects involving foreign citizen contacts.[2]. Under Feith's authorization[3], Larry Franklin met with Iran-Contra figures[4] who were shopping [5] Iraq WMD intelligence to an eager audience.[6] This unvetted WMD information was then "stove-piped" to the White House for use in building support for the war.[7] The WMD information gleaned from these "back-channel" meetings turned out to be false. Post invasion, the Iraq Survey Group found Iraq had no stocks of WMD, nor the capability to produce them.

External links

• Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies: Larry Franklin Case
• FranklinGate
• Pentagon analyst guilty in Israeli spy scandal

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