Marc Grossman
Former senior State Department official.
Sibel Edmonds allegations
Philip Giraldi has claimed that Grossman is the official accused by Sibel Edmonds of involvement in an international nuclear spying ring:
- Edmonds claims that Marc Grossman—ambassador to Turkey from 1994-97 and undersecretary of state for political affairs from 2001-05—was a person of interest to the FBI and had his phone tapped by the Bureau in 2001 and 2002. In the third-highest position at State, Grossman wielded considerable power personally and within the Washington bureaucracy. He had access to classified information of the highest sensitivity from the CIA, NSA, and Pentagon, in addition to his own State Department. On one occasion, Grossman was reportedly recorded making arrangements to pick up a cash bribe of $15,000 from an ATC contact.[1]
Journalist Larisa Alexandrovna has also accused Grossman of being the official implicated by Edmonds.[2]
Plame Affair
- Senior administration officials said there was a document circulated at the State Department -- before Libby talked to Miller -- that mentioned Plame. It was drafted in June as an administrative letter and addressed to then-Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman, who was acting secretary at the time since Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Deputy Secretary Richard L. Armitage were out of the country.
- As a former State Department official involved in the process recalled it, Grossman wanted the letter as background for a meeting at the White House, where the discussion was focused on then growing criticism of Bush's inclusion in his January State of the Union speech of the allegation that Hussein had been seeking uranium from Niger.[3]
References
- ↑ Found in Translation, by Philip Giraldi, The American Conservative, 28 January 2008.
- ↑ Times Online drops the other shoe on the Turkish espionage ring..., by Larisa Alexandrovna, at-Largely, 20 January 2008.
- ↑ Cheney's Office Is A Focus in Leak Case, By Jim VandeHei and Walter Pincus, Washington Post, 18 October 2005.
