http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3607060.stmA top Pentagon analyst is under investigation for having allegedly spied for Israel, according to reports. The FBI believes the Pentagon employee gave Israel access to secret material regarding US policy towards Iran, US TV network CBS has claimed. Israel’s Washington embassy has denied the allegations, describing them as “completely false and outrageous”. CBS says the analyst worked on US policy in Iraq and has ties to leading officials in the Department of Defence. The network said the FBI believed the analyst spied for Israel “from within the office of the secretary of defence [Donald Rumsfeld]”. It claimed the suspected spy had ties with Pentagon officials Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, both of whom are believed to have played key roles in planning the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. ‘No arrests’ Last year, the alleged spy handed over the draft of a US presidential concerning policy towards Iran, the network said, citing unnamed sources. “This put the Israelis – according to one of our sources – ‘inside the decision-making loop’ so they could ‘try to influence the outcome’,” CBS said. A security official interviewed by the Associated Press agency confirmed an investigation was underway but said no arrests have been made. The anonymous official also appears to confirm a claim in CBS’ report that the alleged spy is thought to have passed on the classified information to using pro-Israel lobby group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. A spokesman for the group, Josh Block, said the claim was “baseless and false”. He said the group “would not condone or tolerate for a second any violation of US law or interests”. David Siegel, a spokesman for Israel’s embassy in Washington said: “We categorically deny these allegations.”
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