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The contacts between-Franklin, an Iran specialist, alJd form~~ AlpAC policy
director Rosen and senior analyst Weissman extend back before the June
2003 lunch. In February 2003, the three met at the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City
hotel in Arlington in a session th~t they only learned later was under F~I
surveillance, sources said. It is unclear whether agents were following
Frankl'n or the AIPAC officials. After the 2004 meeting, sources said that
Rosen and Weissman called Kessler and relayed what Franklin had told
Weissman about possible Iranian attacks against Americans and Israelis in
Iraq. Law enforcement sources said that Ke~sler, who did not write an article
based on the phone· conversation, is not a target of the investigation.
UNCLASSIFIED
6/3/2005