Kevin Bohn, CNN, 5/24/05
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Pentagon analyst faces a new charge of knowingly and
unlawfully possessing classified U.S. government documents at his home in
West Virginia.

Larry Franklin was arrested May 4 on charges that in June 2003 he provided
unauthorized persons classified information regarding potential attacks on
U.S. forces in Iraq.

Law enforcement sources said Franklin passed along the information during a
lunch with two people who at the time worked for the American Israeli
Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobby group.

The U.S. attorney's office in Martinsburg, West Virginia, filed the new
charge Tuesday.

It said Franklin, an employee of the Defense Department, was authorized to
have access to top secret information and allowed to carry such documents
within an area that included Washington, Baltimore, Maryland, and Richmond,
Virginia.

But he was not authorized to take them to West Virginia, the office said.

The new charge stems from 83 classified U.S. government documents found in
a search of Franklin's home in Kearneysville, West Virginia, on June 30,
2004, said the U.S. attorney's office. (MORE)

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