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[Rick Faurot]

FBI Interviews Senior Defense Officials in Probe of Analyst
Investigators Looking At Contacts With Israelis
By Bradley Graham and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, August 31, 2004; Page A03

The FBI has interviewed several senior Pentagon officials in recent days in connection with an investigation of a Defense Department analyst who is suspected of providing classified documents to Israel but has been cooperating with investigators for several weeks, government officials said yesterday.

Douglas J. Feith, undersecretary for policy, and Peter Rodman, assistant secretary for international security affairs, are among those who met with FBI agents on Sunday and Monday about the case, which has focused on contacts between a lower-level Pentagon analyst, Lawrence A. Franklin, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), officials said.

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