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appre9~ate ~ts aqtivity on be~alf of the u.s. -- American ~trategiq
alliance. I~ is ve~y impor~ant.
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statement, and the operat.tve words are "they believed was sec~et or
classified?" Th.is puts the monkey on Wl;. franklin's back. AIPAC doesn't.
deny passing the information on to Israeli it denies that. it. did so
knowing that the information was classif~ed. They didn't know it was
cla~si~ied. So a~e you putt.ing -- a~e ~ou putting Franklin out to d~y?
~~. AY~tO~: l w6u~q -- yo~ ~now, ~o~n, was~~n9ton is a place, ~~k~ any
other cap~tal, of jnformation shar~n9. Obviously, we do meet. with ~IPAC
¢n a ~egular basis, like we do meet w~tn ot.her think tanks ~-
MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Well, he --Frank~in --
AMB. AYALON:~ -~ and wit.h administrat.~oo people
MR. MG~QGH~~N: ¥eah.
~B. ~YALON: ~~ CQngre~speople, academi~ people, media people. ~heY'~e
all meeting and talkin9~-
~ don't ~hin~ th~~e w~~ ~~yth~ng w~~ng~~th tn~~, and ~e ~;+l continue
to do that. And r thin~ that the statement. speak$ for itself. ~ don't.
have a~¥thin9 to add. r'm not. a ~pokesman for t.hem~
MR. MCLAUGHLIN: But yo~ understand how t.hat "they believed" prQvides
that. wi9gle ~oom? Can you see that?
AMB. AYALON: ,}: .-- .no( I'm not. sur~. t.ha~ I t~.l.ly ~ndel;stand, you .know,
tb1s legal~~tiq language~
I can tel~ you that. --
MR. MCLAUGHLIN: But AIPAC is presenting itself as possiply'an unwitting
recipient. of clas~i~~ed ~nformation, whicb it ~ay have pa~sed on.