FBI investigating if official spied for Israel
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department has launched an espionage investigation into whether a top policy analyst working for the Pentagon's third-ranking official may have passed classified information to Israel through a powerful pro-Israeli lobbying group, sources familiar with the probe said Friday. The investigation, being handled by the counterespionage division of the FBI, is said to focus on an incident last year in which the analyst allegedly turned over a presidential directive on U.S. policy toward Iran to two people affiliated with the Washington-based American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the sources said. Those two in turn may have given the information to Israel.
Posted by Editor at August 28, 2004 10:49 AM
