Richard Clarke's Pentagon Papers/VVAW Connection

Compiled from various sources ^ | 4/7/2003 | Original Freeper research

[expatpat]

All of these players -- Lake, Halperin, Gelb, Warnke, and Ellsberg -- soon became activists in the IPS network.

Is it just me, but there seems to be an awful high percentage of Jewish lefties in this list.

[walden]

Until the Vietnam generation is either retired or dead, the Democratic party will continue to be borderline treasonous.

[Howlin]

It's all quite incestuous, isn't it?

Great, great research! This is what FR does best!

[Howlin]

Bookmark this so when it finally makes the news, we can refer back to THIS research and give credit where credit is due.

[HateBill]

Ven-Beniste (commie partisan attack dog) is another veteran of Watergate.

[Fedora]

Hope the right people see this.

Me, too! I trust there must be FBI files on some of these folks dating back to Watergate, some of which have probably been previously released to biographers and historians--I'm sure a little crossreferencing would turn up a lot more than what's touched on here.

[NativeNewYorker]

an awful high percentage of Jewish lefties

Perle, Wolfowitz, Eliot Abrams...no shortage of my co-religionists on the side of the good guys either.

[Fedora]

Bookmark this so when it finally makes the news, we can refer back to THIS research and give credit where credit is due.

Thanks for the bookmark ping!--appreciate it.

BTW, while we've got some good researchers on this thread, it just occurred to me that Leslie Gelb might be related to Arthur Gelb of the New York Times--anyone happen to know, or could help determine this? Here's a little background info:

Jason Robards, Newspaper Ink Blot

Arthur Gelb, now retired, was a powerful figure at the Times, an intimate of Abe Rosenthal who worked at the paper 55 years and rose to managing editor. For about two decades starting in 1967, when he was metropolitan editor, Gelb controlled the Times' daily cultural coverage.

There's more on the NYT Gelbs in this book:

Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones, The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times

Incidentally, in this book there is evidence of the NYT having journalists with a pro-Communist slant all the way back to the Spanish Civil War, and there's also info the NYT role in Castro's rise to power, as well as the anti-Vietnam movement and the Pentagon Papers. There's a big story to be pieced together there.

[NativeNewYorker]

borderline treasonous

They crossed that border a long time ago.

[Fedora]

Interesting--I hadn't heard of the World Federalist Association. I'll have to check into that.

[Fedora]

All these roaches come from the same next.

Agreed.

[Mo1]

Got it .. Book marked

[Fedora]

Ven-Beniste (commie partisan attack dog) is another veteran of Watergate.

Thanks, I hadn't heard of that individual. Trying to find a link and not coming up with anything--where might I look for info on them?

[7thson]

FYI -

Leslie H. Gelb

Experience:

Columnist, Deputy Editorial Page Editor, Op-Ed Page Editor, National Security Correspondent, Diplomatic Correspondent, New York Times (1981-93); Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment (1980-81); Assistant Secretary of State for Political/Military Affairs (1977-79); Senior Fellow, Brookings (1969-73); Visiting Professor, Georgetown University (1969-73); Director of Policy Planning and Arms Control for International Security Affairs, Department of Defense (1967-69); Executive Assistant, U.S. Senator Jacob K. Javits (1966-67).

[kcvl]

Thanks for the ping, Howlin.


bookmarked...

[Fedora]

Until the Vietnam generation is either retired or dead, the Democratic party will continue to be borderline treasonous.

It sure seems like most of the worst offenders are all veterans of the antiwar movement--many of them associated with Ted Kennedy, George McGovern, William Fulbright, etc.

[Fedora]

Thanks!

[EdReform]

Bump & Bookmark...

[Howlin]

You have regular email.

[TexasCajun]

Great work!
Just another example of why President Bush should have cleaned house when he took office.