[PEN-L:36270] RE: Re: Perle before Swine

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [PEN-L:36262] Re: Perle before Swine

the Perle as Pollard-lite was reported in Eric Alterman's column in the NATION.

So Wolfowitz, Perle, and Feith were once leftists of a sort (social dems who sided with the US in the Cold War) who worked for Scoop Jackson? I wonder if I met any of them in the political conflicts of the SP USA of the early 1970s... (If so, I was on the other side from them.)

Jim
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Pollak
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Sent: 3/29/2003 3:01 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:36262] Re: Perle before Swine

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Devine, James wrote:

> I read somewhere that Perle was an advisor to the late Senator from
> Boeing, Henry "Scoop" Jackson. There were a lot of the Cold War
> liberal/right-wing social democrat/Zionist contingent in Jackson's
> coterie. Was Perle one of them?

He was, along with Wolfowitz and Feith.  And this is good opportunity
for
me to ask about something I found while surfing a few months ago.
Supposedly Perle was disciplined during that period for pulling a kind
of
Jonathan Pollard light.  Does anyone know about this?  It's usually
posted
in too-close proximity to anti-semitic stuff for me to trust it without
solid confirmation from a mainstream news source, and I haven't found
any
yet.  Any suggestions one way or the other would appreciated.

Below is a fair sample of what I've found.  In itself it sounds
perfectly
plausible.  His business ethics certainly haven't changed.  But I dunno
who Findley is, that book title sounds kind of creepy, and I don't want
to
pass anything on that's tainted.

Michael

http://www.sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/08/143334_comment.php

   When Perle was working for Senator Scoop Jackson, he was investigated
   by the Justice Department and found to have violated US policies
   relating to unlawful transmission of sensitive classified US
   information to Israel.

   See Paul Findley "They Dare To Speak Out" Chicago, Ill, Lawrence Hill
   Books 1989 Chapter 5, Penetrating the Defense at Defense--and State
   Page 139-164:

   An FBI summary of a 1970 wiretap recorded Perle discussing classified
   information with someone at the Israeli embassy. He came under fire
in
   1983 when newspapers reported he received substantial payments to
   represent the interests of an Israeli weapons company. Perle denied
   conflict of interest, insisting that, although he received payment
for
   these services after he had assumed his position in the Defense
   Department, he was between government jobs when he worked for the
   Israeli firm. Because of these controversies both Perle and Bryan
were
   given assignments in the Reagan administration which it was expected
   would keep him isolated from issues relating to Israel."