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F. Michael Maloof, according to Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest, in their January 26, 2004, Mother Jones article "The Lie Factory", write:

Partnered at the Department of Defense with David Wurmser, "Maloof, a former aide to Richard N. Perle in the 1980s Pentagon, was twice stripped of his high-level security clearances--once in late 2001 and again last spring, for various infractions. Maloof was also reportedly involved in a bizarre scheme to broker contacts between Iraqi officials and the Pentagon, channeled through Perle, in what one report called a 'rogue [intelligence] operation' outside official CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency channels."

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