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December 17, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=12035

FBI Initiated Bogus Entrapment Operation Against AIPAC

(Maariv International) A senior Jewish source claims that the FBI investigation of AIPAC was, from the beginning, an improper sting operation aimed at targeting the organization. "The FBI was never investigating a potential threat to U.S. national security interests, the entire operation was entrapment from its inception," he said. "The bottom line is that the FBI, via [Pentagon analyst Larry] Franklin, was deliberately trying to set AIPAC up by the use of bogus information." The source categorically claims that at no point were documents exchanged, and that it was not made clear that the information was classified. Under those circumstances, AIPAC saw no reason why it should not pass on what seemed to be genuine information of a serious threat to Israeli citizens.

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