[Enchante]

"...discussed with Defense officials Harold Rhode and Larry Franklin at meetings in Rome in December 2001"

Could this have something to do with how Larry Franklin ended up in hot legal water over dealings with AIPAC? Was some liberal in DoD or CIA, etc. gunning for Franklin because of his contact with Ghorbanifar or even to disrupt and undermine anyone working on "regime change" in Iran??

[Fedora]

I don't know if that's what ultimately got Franklin in trouble or not, but it does seem possible someone was gunning for him--VIPS et al propagandists have definitely been gunning for Ledeen & Co. using the Ghorbanifar angle--and in any case it's certainly interesting he shows up in this context.