I’m researching a piece that deals with Manucher Ghorbanifar, and Pentagon, Larry Franklin, and Harold Rhode that ties into the Feith/Addington/Cheney (and Michael Ledeen) alternate intel shop which was primarily responsible for the bogus intel that excused our invasion of Iraq. As such it also ties to Italian SISMI and the Niger forgeries.

It gets pretty deep, Ghorbanifar worked with Ledeen on Iran/Contra, was tied into shady arms supplying, and was also working for Iran at the time (and probably still was during the march to war in Iraq.) It also ties to AIPAC and secret intel that was stolen from the US, given to AIPAC and from there given to Israel (and for which folks have now gone to jail.)

Clearly there are very strong ties between Israeli Likudniks and US Neo-Cons and the intel shop set up in the Pentagon by Cheney’s team was also working intel on Iran. It probably also ties (since it was a Cheney project all the way) to the Energy Task Force and may well fit into your speculation as to what happened during that meeting (personally I think they just wanted the oil and “Peak” was not a very big part of there motivating factor.)

Like I said its a big piece, gonna take a while, but its timely in that while it was buried long ago (a Pentagon counter-intell unit was looking at all this when their investigation was shut down in ’03 after only a month by Stephen Cambone, another Cheney agent, it has recently resurfaced in a Senate Intell Committee report.

The bomb shell in that report was that ““Pentagon officials might have been used as agents of a foreign intelligence service … to reach into and influence the highest levels of the U.S. government”. The implication here is that, while Cheney and the boys were gathering bogus intel to get us into war it now appears that there is a good chance that the guys they were getting the intel from were agents being run by Iran.

Interesting stuff! (and very impeachable)