Date: August 3, 2005 5:25:48 AM PDT
Subject: [ctrl] "Colonel Franklin"
August 2, 2005 -- Italian criminal probe yields name "Colonel Franklin" hosting
meetings at U.S. Embassy in Rome with top neo-Fascist Italian politicians and Likud
officials from Israel. An ongoing criminal investigation in Italy has yielded copies of
the minutes of meetings held at the U.S. Embassy in Rome in 1995 attended by a
"Colonel Franklin" from the United States, leading Italian neo-Fascist politicians
(including Deputy Prime Minister Giancarlo Fini), and Likud officials from Israel. The
meetings were held to arrange for lucrative telecommunications and military
contracts for Israeli companies with the U.S. government.
Air Force Reserve Colonel, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Pentagon Bureau
of Near East and South Asian Affairs employee Lawrence (Larry) A. Franklin was
recently indicted for passing classified information to two American Israel Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC) employees. The top Mossad official at the Israeli
embassy in Washington and other Israeli agents are also under investigation by FBI
agents. Franklin served in the U.S. Air Force Reserves since 1976 and was posted
to the DIA and Defense HUMINT Services. While serving on active duty, Franklin
was posted to the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv. Franklin, who touted an aggressive
military approach against Iran, also reportedly attended a December 2001 meeting in
Rome on opening up back channels to Iranian dissidents. Attending the meeting, in
addition to Franklin, were leading neo-con Michael Ledeen of the American
Enterprise Institute and Karl Rove's chief foreign policy advisor; Pentagon neocon
Harold Rhode; Iran-contra figure and known fabricator Manucher Ghorbanifar; Italian
SISMI military intelligence chief Nicolo Pollari; Italian Defense Minister Antonio
Martino; and a number of Iranian dissidents.
Another Italian criminal probe has focused on campaign contributions made by
wealthy Italians and Italian-Americans to the Bush 2000 and 2004 presidential
campaigns in return for the U.S. Navy's award of a lucrative $1.7 billion contract to
replace the President's Marine One helicopter fleet with 23 helicopters manufactured
by Agusta Westland, the Italian subsidiary of Finnmeccanica. The long-running
criminal probe of illegal money going to mostly Republican politicians in the United
States has been carried out by the prosecutor for Aosta and focused in the late
1990s on fraudulent "Phony Money" deals involving almost worthless Weimar
Republic bonds issued during the Weimar German Republic and the Nazi regime, a
self-styled secessionist northern Italian state called the "Federal Republic of
Padania," and Central Bank of Nicaragua treasury notes. That scandal involved
Italian politicians, intelligence agents, and businessmen associated with the right
wing and secessionist Northern League (Lega Nord) of Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi's political ally Umberto Bossi, the Italian military intelligence service
SISMI, former CIA agents now associated with neocon elements within the Bush
administration, a reconstituted P-2 Masonic Lodge (sometimes referred to as P-3),
and P-2/P-3's leader Grand Master (Gran Maestro) Giorgio Paterno. There are also
links between the Phony Money scandal and the recent collapse of the Italian dairy
giant Parmalat.~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Alamaine
Grand Forks, ND, US of A
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