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FBI.Stings Seen as Part of Policy 'War'
by Edwin BI~ck, Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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Last June, leading neoconservative Richard Perle received an unexpected
phone call at his home. It was Larry Franklin calling. Franklin is' the
veteran Ira~ specialist in the Pentagon's Near ,East So~th Asia office and
the key Iraq War planner who had been'pressured by the FBI into
launching aseries of c9unterintelligence stings. Perle, a former chairm?,n
of the Pentagon's Defense Policy' Board, was' an architect of the 2003 Iraq
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Franklin, who never had phoned. before, asked .Perle to "convey a message
to Chalabi" in Iraq, according to. sources aware of the call. Ahmad Chalabi
is the embattled p'resident of.the Iraqi National Congress. He is currently at
the vortex of'a Pentagon-intelligence community conflict ov~r pre- ~nd
post-war policy"but is stili endorsed by,neoconserVatives, such a~ Perle•
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.Something about Franklin's unexpected call struck Perle as "weird,"
according to the sources. Why was Franklin calling?
In the recent past, Perle had only encountered Frankliria few times in
passing, the sources said. Perle became "impatient" to end his brief .
conversation with Franklin, and finally just declined to pass a message to.
Chalapi.or to cooperate in.any w.ay, accor~ing to the sources.
Perle refused to coma:nent.
Wolle the purpose of the·mysterious call to Perle is still.unclear, a source
with knowledge of Franklin's calls suggested t~at: Franklin might have been
trying to warn· Perle and Chalabi that conflict between the
counterintelligence community alJd the neoconservatives and the Chalabi
camp was spinnil)g out of control. . ~( ~~ • ~ ~ CI
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Unbeknownst to Franklin, the FBI was listening.
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