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The past couple weeks have seen a swirl of anonymous allegations of supposed spying and espionage, including implications that the Pentagon civilian staff might be teeming with double agents for the Jewish state. Thing is, almost none of it is true. Beyond mishandling of classified documents—not an inconsequential offense, to be sure—every other accusation leveled by unnamed State Department and intelligence officials appears part of a carefully calculated campaign to question the loyalty of several Pentagon civilian employees by name, as well as a much larger group by implication. According to someone with intimate knowledge of the draft presidential directive...

Senior FBI counter-intelligence official involved in case linked to lawsuit against the FBI and CIA based on anti-Semitism and prejudice. Maariv International The FBI counter-intelligence probe against AIPAC, in which Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin allegedly passed on sensitive documents to AIPAC officials may be taking a new turn. So far it has been characterized by a plethora of leaked hype, and a paucity of any evidence of wrongdoing. To date no arrests have been made, and the current status of the probe is unclear. However new evidence has emerged that cast a new light on the entire affair, supporting those...

WASHINGTON -- AIPAC, the powerhouse pro-Israel lobby currently embroiled in allegations of spying for Israel, was set up by the FBI, The Jerusalem Post has learned. FBI agents used a courier, Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin, to draw two senior AIPAC officials who already knew him into accepting what he described to them as "classified" information, reliable government and other sources intimately familiar with the investigation have told the Post. One of the AIPAC pair then told diplomats at the Israeli Embassy in Washington about the "classified" information, which claimed Iranians were monitoring and planning to kidnap and kill Israelis operating...

A former high-ranking State Department official who is one of the nation's leading experts on China passed documents to Taiwanese intelligence agents and was charged yesterday with concealing a trip to Taiwan, court papers say. Donald W. Keyser, who was elevated to principal deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs this year, made the trip last year, according to an FBI affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. Keyser, 61, who advised Secretary of State Colin L. Powell on China issues, met with one of the agents in Taipei last September during an official trip to China...

For U.S. policy, "the Asia region is a success story," said J. Stapleton Roy, co-chairman of a group of specialists which last week issued an important new report, "America's Role in Asia," published by the Asia Foundation. Roy's colleague, Michael H. Armacost, also speaking at a press conference Nov. 15 at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, said that the Bush Administration had "managed to improve simultaneously solid relations with Japan, China and Russia" -- the three most powerful countries, along with the United States itself, in the region. "The United States is well positioned," said the report,...

WASHINGTON, May 18 — The ferocity of the White House counterattack this week, when confronted by criticism that President Bush and his top advisers knew more than the public about hijacking threats before Sept. 11, is a sure sign that they recognize the political danger should Democrats press the issue through the coming election campaign. Mr. Bush's political team appeared to sense that taking the question to the voters might backfire on the Democrats, with the president, and by implication his party, suffering no lasting political damage from the disclosures of the past week. The central question is where the...