He had a close relationship with a number of Washington lobbyists connected to Ahmed Chalabi.
Pletka was a strong supporter of Iraqi opposition leader, Ahmed Chalabi, even after it emerged he was being investigated by the US authorities as an Iranian spy.
The firm received widely publicized criticism when it was revealed that Chalabi, nephew of Ahmed Chalabi, a highly controversial expatriate Iraqi intimately involved in the US instigated war ousting Saddam Hussein, was its creator, along with Zell, a U.S.-born Israeli citizen.
Coordinating anti-Saddam groups was an important element of this strategy and the Iraqi National Congress (INC), led by Ahmed Chalabi, was the main group tasked with this purpose.
With information about the mobile labs the Bush administration then went and asked Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress (INC) if they knew anything about this "threat".
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He subsequently became the chief assistant in Washington to Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress.