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Lawrence Franklin, center,
surrounded by his attorneys,
leaves U.S. District Court in
Martinsburg, W.Va., Thursday.
(Photo credit: by Kevin G.
Gilbert I Staff Photographer)
Friday June 10, 2005
Franklin case goes to grand jury
by PEPPER BALLARD
pepperb@herald-mail.com
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - Probable cause was found Thursday
at the U.S., District Courthouse in Martinsburg to send to a
grand jury a charge that a Pentagon analyst illegally took
classified government documents to his Kearneysville, W.Va.,
home.
The charge against Lawrence Anthony Franklin, 58, who holds
a doctorate in Asian studies and taught history courses at
Shepherd University for the past five years, will be referred to
the next grand jury, U.S. Magistrate JUdge David J. Joel said
Thursday after his finding at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West
Virginia.
"Dr. Franklin knowingly and unlawfully possessed classified documents in a place he was
not permitted to keep them," Joel said. "He admitted he possessed these'documents."
Franklin faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted of the charge.
A June 30, 2004, search of Franklin's home turned up 83 classified documents, 37 of
which were classified as top secret, meaning the release of which would cause
"exceptionally greatdamage" to national security, and 34 of which were classified as
secret, meaning the release of which would cause "great damage" to national security,
FBI Special Agent Thomas Convoy, who spe9ializes in counterterrorism and espionage,
testified Thursday.
The charge centered on six documents, written between Oqtober 2003 and·June 2004,
which included CIA docum.ents about al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden, terrorism
documents and an Iraq memorandum, Convoy testified.,
Franklin was authorized to carry classified documents in Maryland, Virginia and ~ ~
Washington, D.C., but not in West Virginia, Convoy testified.
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Convoy testified that Franklinwas a member of the Department of Defense since 197'...If"j
and held top-secret clearance since then, but it since has blilen revoked.
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