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-Member, Defense Policy Board, Department of Defense, 1987-2004; Chairman, 2001-2003
-Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, 1981-1987
-U.S. Senate staff, 1969-1980
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The real stakes in the Persian Gulf.
U.S. News & World Report; 10/26/1987; Perle, Richard N.
In explaining its policy on the Gulf, the administration has pointed to three U.S. interests: One, maintaining unimpeded access to Gulf oil; two, protecting the security and stability of friendly Gulf states and, three, denying Soviet influence in the region.
There is no doubt that it is Iraq that started the war with Iran. It is Iraq that began attacking commercial shipping, and it is Iraq that initiated the use of chemical weapons and the bombing of civilian targets.
U.S. News & World Report; 9/24/1990; Perle, Richard N.
Only by crushing Saddam Hussein and his war machine can we begin to build a stable political order in the Middle East.
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The Atlantic Monthly | May 1982
Kissinger and Nixon in the White House, by Seymour M. Hersh
The less-than-precise document in question in Sonnenfeldt's case, however, was an FBI summary of a wiretap on the Israeli Embassy in which Richard N. Perle, an aide to Senator Henry Jackson, was overheard discussing classified information that had been supplied to him by someone on the National Security Council staff. newsmine.org
also: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/82may/hershwh2.htm
The recording was made in 1970.
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CIA analyst forced out for giving Senator Secret Data
by Seymour M. Hersh
NY Times, Nov. 13, 1978
" ... The analyst, David S. Sullivan, admitted passing documents to Richard Perle, Senator Jackson's aide. ... Admiral Turner has met at least twice with Senator Jackson since Mr. Sullivan left the agency last Aug. 25, officials said, and urged him to dismiss Mr. Perle.
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In 1983, after stepping into a Pentagon job in the Reagan administration, Perle came under fire for accepting a $50,000 payment from an Israeli arms manufacturer. He explained that the payment was for work done as a Washington lobbyist before entering government.
In 1981, shortly before being appointed assistant secretary of defense for international security policy--with responsibility, inter alia, for monitoring of U.S. defense technology exports--Richard Perle was paid a substantial consulting fee by Israeli arms manufacturer Tamares, Ltd. Shortly after assuming the ISP post, Perle wrote a letter to the secretary of the army urging evaluation and purchase of 155 mm. shells manufactured by Soltam, Ltd. After leaving DOD in 1987, Perle worked for Soltam.
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International Herald Tribune; 3/29/2003; Stephen Labaton
International Herald Tribune
03-29-2003
While he headed an influential Pentagon advisory board, Richard Perle worked for a major American satellite maker, Loral Space & Communications, to resolve government accusations that it had improperly transferred sensitive rocket technology to the Chinese, administration officials said Friday. Officials at the State Department said that the senior official considering how to resolve the rocket matter, Lincoln Bloomfield Jr., was contacted by Perle on behalf of Loral after his appointment to the advisory board. At the time, Bloomfield, an assistant secretary who heads the State Department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, and other officials were investigating charges that Loral had turned over expertise that improved the reliability of China's nuclear missiles.
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Israel's unauthorized arms transfers.
Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy; 6/22/1995; Clarke, Duncan
The Pentagon naturally opposes the transfer or retransfer of advanced American technology to countries that violate U.S. laws. Unlike many Pentagon units, however, DTSA has been routinely supportive of exports to "nonsuspect" companies in friendly countries. During the Reagan administration, the first head of DTSA was Stephen Bryen, who before moving to the Pentagon, was the executive director of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), an organization committed to strong security ties between the United States and Israel. Bryen's superior at Defense was Richard Perle, who now serves with Bryen on JINSA's advisory board. In the mid-1980s, Bryen allegedly called Customs Service commissioner William von Raab to complain about an investigation of alleged re-export violations by Israel. In 1988, Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage admonished Bryen for trying to force through an export license for Israel over the strong objections of senior military officers. After leaving government and returning to JINSA, Bryen, who denies the von Raab incident, was a paid Pentagon consultant (with security clearance) on sensitive technology exports.
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Knight Ridder Washington Bureau (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 8/1/2003
Byline: Warren P. Strobel
WASHINGTON _ A veteran Pentagon employee who was a key player in the effort to find links between Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida has been stripped of his security clearance, according to senior U.S. officials.
After Maloof's clearances were revoked in December 2001, several individuals close to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld came to his defense and wrote supporting letters, officials said. They included Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, the Pentagon's No. 3 civilian, who oversees the Office of Special Plans, and Richard Perle, a top outside adviser and former chairman of the influential Defense Policy Board, a group of outsiders who advise the defense secretary.
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Defense Worker Charged Again in Secrecy Case
W.Post
By Jerry Markon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 25, 2005; Page A04
A Defense Department analyst already accused of disclosing classified information was charged again yesterday, this time with possessing classified documents concerning Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda and Iraq, the Justice Department announced.
The new criminal complaint says 83 classified documents dating back three decades -- including 38 marked Top Secret -- were found in a search of Lawrence Franklin's West Virginia home. They included three CIA documents on al Qaeda, a CIA memo on Iraq and several government reports on terrorism. It is unclear why Franklin would have had them in his possession or taken them home.
Papers filed in U.S. District Court in West Virginia also revealed that the Defense Intelligence Agency knew as early as 1997 that Franklin was improperly removing classified documents from his Pentagon office and taking them home. Franklin was issued a written warning, but his security clearances were not suspended until the criminal investigation heated up last year, the court papers said.
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The American Enterprise; 4/1/2001; Perle, Richard N.
How missile defense makes the entire globe safer
The question is not whether a ballistic missile with a nuclear or chemical or biological warhead capable of killing hundreds of thousands of Americans will wind up in the hands of a hostile power. The question is when.
Pinpointing the exact date is a game played by intelligence agencies, rather like an office pool on the outcome of the Super Bowl. In the Super Bowl, though, you at least know who the players are. When it comes to the acquisition of a ballistic missile or a nuclear warhead, there is no sure way of telling.
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Watch This Spy Story
W.Post
By David Ignatius
Wednesday, August 24, 2005; Page A15
The case involves two former officials of a pro-Israel lobbying group, Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, and their alleged dissemination of classified information that they received from a former Defense Department analyst named Lawrence Franklin. The Aug. 4 indictment charged that the three disclosed secret information about U.S. policy toward Iran and terrorism to an unnamed foreign power, identified by sources as Israel.
Like the Plame investigation, the indictment is politically sensitive. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, where the two lobbyists worked, is one of the most potent advocacy groups in Washington. AIPAC, as the group is known, fired Rosen and Weissman in April, and the group has seemed eager to distance itself from the fallout of the case. Given the stakes, it has received surprisingly little attention so far in the media.
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In April, 1981, the FBI received an application by the Defense Department for a Top Secret security clearance for Dr. Bryen . Richard Perle, who had just been nominated as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, was proposing Bryen as his Deputy Assistant Secretary! Within six months, with Perle pushing hard, Bryen received both Top Secret-SCI (sensitive compartmented information) and Top Secret-"NATO/COSMIC" clearances.
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Washington Report on Middle East Affairs; 12/1/2004; Brownfeld, Allan C.
Four of the leading neoconservatives have been accused in the past of illegally providing classified information to Israel, though none was ever prosecuted. In 1970, the FBI recorded Richard Perle discussing classified information with an Israeli Embassy official. Stephen Bryen, then a Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff member and later Perle's deputy at the Department of Defense, narrowly avoided indictment in 1979 after he was overheard offering classified documents to an Israeli Embassy official. Douglas Feith, who in a position paper prepared for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for a "clean break from the peace process," was fired in 1982 from the National Security Council on suspicion of passing confidential documents to the Israeli Embassy. He was immediately re-hired by Richard Perle at the Pentagon. Paul Wolfowitz was investigated in 1978 over charges that he had provided a classified document to the Israeli Embassy by way of AIPAC.
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency; 12/22/2004; Black, Edwin
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
12-22-2004
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (JTA) -- The FBI's investigation of the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee did not go into high gear until more than a year
after the Pentagon's top Iran analyst allegedly passed foreign policy
strategy information to two AIPAC officials.
The investigation only intensified in July 2004, when the FBI allegedly
directed the same Pentagon analyst, Larry Franklin, to conduct a sting
operation against AIPAC officials, providing them with purportedly
classified information to pass on to Israel, according to sources close to
the investigation.
A month later, the FBI raided AIPAC offices, confiscating files from two
senior staffers.
On Dec. 1, the FBI returned to the headquarters of the pro-Israel lobby,
searching staffers' offices. The FBI also issued subpoenas to four AIPAC
staffers to appear before a grand jury at the end of this month.
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Journalist Sy Hersh has reported that in 1970 while Richard Perle
was working for Sen. Henry Jackson of Washington, Perle was caught
by an FBI wiretap discussing classified information with an official
at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC. And according to the New
York Times, in 1978 CIA Director Stansfield Turner asked Sen.
Jackson to fire Perle after Perle was named as a recipient of an
unauthorized disclosure of classified information.
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In 1992, when he was serving as undersecretary of defense for policy, Pentagon officials looking into the unauthorized export of classified technology to China, found that Wolfowitz's office was promoting Israel's export of advanced air-to-air missiles to Beijing in violation of a written agreement with Washington on arms re-sales.
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while he was working for Jackson, an "FBI summary of a 1970 wiretap recorded Perle discussing classified information with someone in the Israeli embassy." In 1983, after stepping into a Pentagon job in the Reagan administration, Perle came under fire for accepting a $50,000 payment from an Israeli arms manufacturer. He explained that the payment was for work done as a Washington lobbyist before entering government. According to a Dec. 24, 1985, Associated Press report, Perle, still a Reagan Defense Department official, was challenged by Jeremiah Denton, then a Republican senator from Alabama, on Perle's choice of Stephen D. Bryen as a Pentagon aide. In the email copy of Lee Byrd's report provided by John Sugg (JohnSugg@aol.com), Denton charged that Bryen, moving from a job with the powerful American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, had been forced to resign his Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff job after being investigated for trying to gain information for the Israeli government. Federal prosecutors dropped the case, with Perle defending Bryen's integrity, the AP report says. In February 2002, the dispute spilled over into theWashington Post's editorial pages, with one writer blasting the 'toxic' charge that Israel is unduly influencing President Bush's Iraq policy. A Post editorial responded by pointing out that Perle, who is chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, and two other Bush policy men, Douglas Feith, undersecretary of defense for policy, and David Wurmser, a State Department special assistant, had in 1996 participated in Likud policy deliberations.
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Perle came to Washington for the first time in early 1969, at the age of 28, to work for a neo-con think tank called the "Committee to Maintain a Prudent Defense Policy." Within months, Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson offered Perle a position on his staff, working with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. And within months after that--less than a year--Perle was embroiled in an affair involving the leaking of a classified CIA report on alleged past Soviet treaty violations.
The leaker (and author of the report) was CIA analyst David Sullivan, and the leakee was Richard Perle. CIA Director Stansfield Turner was incensed at the unauthorized disclosure, but before he could fire Sullivan, the latter quit. Turner urged Sen. Jackson to fire Perle, but he was let off with a reprimand. Jackson then added insult to injury by immediately hiring Sullivan to his staff. Sullivan and Perle became close friends and co-conspirators, and together established an informal right-wing network which they called "the Madison Group," after their usual meeting place in--you might have guessed--the Madison Hotel Coffee Shop.
Perle's second brush with the law occurred a year later in 1970. An FBI wiretap authorized for the Israeli Embassy picked up Perle discussing with an Embassy official classified information which he said had been supplied to by a staff member on the National Security Council. An NSC/FBI investigation was launched to identify the staff member, and quickly focused upon Helmut Sonnenfeldt. The latter had been previously investigated in 1967 while a staff member of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, for suspected unauthorized transmission to an Israeli Government official of a classified document concerning the commencement of the 1967 war in the Middle East.
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