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Richard Clarke's Pentagon Papers/VVAW Connection
Compiled from various sources ^ | 4/7/2003 | Original Freeper research

Posted on 04/07/2004 8:09:30 AM PDT by Fedora

Today I noticed that Condoleezza Rice was being criticized by Leslie Gelb:

Friends, Foes Say Rice Has Spirit, Toughness She'll Need for Sept. 11 Testimony

At the same time, Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, who has known Rice for two decades, says he has seen a stiffening in her philosophical approach over the years.

Gelb's name rang a bell, and upon searching I discovered Gelb was responsible for hiring Richard Clarke to the State Department:

Clarke Known As Abrasive but Efficient

Leslie Gelb, who hired Clarke for his first State Department job in 1979

Now Gelb has also been involved in several major national security leaks, including the Pentagon Papers:

The Pentagon Papers and Their Continuing Significance

Amid his own growing doubts about the war he had encouraged, McNamara quietly left the government in early 1968. Before doing so, however, he ordered a small staff in the Department of Defense to undertake a secret study of U.S. decision-making about Vietnam since the end of the Second World War. The study was directed by Leslie Gelb.

S. Steven Powell, Richard Milhous Nixon (Introduction), David Horowitz (Designer), Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies, p. 48

About nine months into the [Pentagon Papers] project, Daniel Ellsberg of the Rand Corporation climbed aboard. Even though Ellsberg behaved erratically throughout and failed to meet deadlines, Gelb and [Paul C.] Warnke agreed to give him "personal access to the entire study."

Powell, 53:

On May 16, while testifying before the United States Senate, Ellsberg, before taking the oath, stated that Warnke, Halperin and Gelb were not involved in his theft of the Papers. No one had asked him that question. . .but later, after Sen. Strom Thurmond insisted that he be put under oath, he did not discuss this matter.

Powell, 90:

On February 14, 1985, Leslie Gelb broke a front-page story in the New York Times titled "U.S. tries to Fight Allied Resistance to Nuclear Arms." In it, Gelb revealed that the United States had drawn up plans to deploy nuclear depth charges in Canada, Iceland, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, the Azores, the Philippines, Spain, and Diego Garcia in time of war. Gelb's source for this classified information? The Institute for Policy Studies. . .These stories struck a raw nerve in the alliance. . .and subsequently led to the demise of the ANZUS alliance.

Powell, 103:

. . .Leslie Gelb, of the New York Times, described the institute [the Institute for Policy Studies] as "one of the premiere centers for foreign policy perspectives."

Further searching reveals that Gelb began his political career working for antiwar Senator Jacob Javits, whom was considered for invitation by event organizers to the VVAW's Dewey Canyon III rally:

Leslie H. Gelb

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)

Jacob K. Javits Collection

During the 1970s, one of Javits' major concerns was the question of who has the power to make war. He was the first member of Congress to propose legislation reestablishing congressional (rather than presidential) responsibility to commit U.S. armed forces abroad in the absence of a formal declaration of war. This War Powers Resolution passed the Senate in April 1972 and again in July 1973. It became law over President Nixon's veto on November 7, 1973.

This week in history 25 years ago--February 21, 1971: Stalinists push "People's Peace Treaty"

Both the Stalinists and the ex-Trotskyists of the Socialist Workers Party proposed that big business politicians such as Democratic Senator George McGovern and Republican Senator Jacob Javits should be invited to speak at the antiwar demonstration set for April 24 in Washington, DC.

Douglas Brinkley, Tour of Duty : John Kerry and the Vietnam War, 361

Just as the VVAW members were arriving in the capital, New York Senator Jacob Javits held a private dinner at his home where Secretary of State Melvin Laird was the guest of honor. It was a carefully staged event. Javits had eight other Republican members of the House and the Senate also stop by. AFter dinner. . .Pennsylvania Senator Hugh Scott dropped the gauntlet. "You don't see any hawks around here," he told Laird in a non-nonsense fashion. "The hawks are all ex-hawks. There's a feeling that the Senate ought to tell the President to get the hell out of the War."

So Richard Clarke was hired by Leslie Gelb, an individual involved in the Penagon Papers leak, who in turn started his political career working for Jacob Javits, an ally of the VVAW. Interesting, no?


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KEYWORDS: cfr; ips; lesliegelb; richardclarke; vvaw
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To: ravingnutter
In another bizarre twist, Truman Arnold's lawyer during the Whitewater Investigation turns out to have been Democratic power-broker Richard Ben-Veniste, just nominated to serve on the 9/11 probe. If Ben-Veniste client Truman Arnold's business dealings with terror flight school owner Wally Hilliard come under scrutiny in the 9/11 probe, the slick Washington lawyer may find himself involved in a major national scandal from two different sides.

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Can we say CONFLICT OF INTEREST, boys and girls?

YIKES!!!! Bears repeating!! Richard Ben-Veniste is VERY, VERY DIRTY!!! (typical Dem)

101 posted on 04/07/2004 5:19:44 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: philman_36
I am amazed,,,maybe there is a vast left wing conspiracy. Mobsters, socialists, thugs, lawyers,,,all connected.
102 posted on 04/07/2004 5:22:21 PM PDT by cajungirl (<i>swing low, sweet limousine, comin' fer to Kerry me hoooommmee</i>)
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To: ravingnutter
And former Governor Thomas Kean not only sits on the board of directors of a company which has business dealings with Khalid bin Mahfouz, he also heads the 9/11 Commission, which has a mandate to investigate Khalid's brother in law, Osama bin Laden.

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YIKES AGAIN!!! YOU ARE GOOOOD!!

103 posted on 04/07/2004 5:24:47 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Fedora; Admin Moderator
Is there any way this thread could have it's own Sidebar Title, as in Latest Posts, Breaking News, 9/11 Cmmission (ers) Info?

There are So many of these threads with VALUABLE info.

104 posted on 04/07/2004 5:32:13 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: windchime
Thanks--excellent links. Halperin is another name that keeps coming up. There's lots on him in Powell's book on the Institute for Policy Studies. Also, in 1969 J. Edgar Hoover suspected Halperin of being responsible for leaking sensitive information on Nixon's bombing of Cambodia to the press (". . .on May 8 1969, New York Times reporter William Beecher wrote that 'according to Nixon administration sources,' American B-52 bombers had raided several Vietcong and North Vietnamese supply dumps and base camps in Cambodia. . .Hoover could not identify the leaker. He could only conjecture as to the source, advising Kissinger. . .that national security aide Morton Halperin could have leaked this information, on the grounds that Halperin 'knew [William] Beecher and that he [Hoover] considered [Halperin] a part of the Harvard clique and, of course, of the Kennedy era'. . .After leaving the NSC staff, Halperin and another wiretapped NSC aide, Anthony Lake, joined the campaign staff of Democratic presidential aspirant Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine. . .Hoover. . .reported on proposed speeches and article's of the administration's critics, about Lake's intention 'to work with Senator Fulbright in opposing the war'. . .": Athan Theoharis and John Stuart Cox, The Boss, 466-8).
105 posted on 04/07/2004 5:35:45 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: PattonReincarnated
Sounds like the makings of a right-wing conspiracy theory. Good work.

Thanks--I figure if we're going to be accused of being part of a vast right-wing conspiracy we should at least have a conspiracy theory to compete with the Unified Halliburton Theory :)

106 posted on 04/07/2004 5:38:30 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: philman_36
I will be sure to ping you when I post future things related to this. I appreciate you offering to help find things.
107 posted on 04/07/2004 5:44:52 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora
Thank you!  I've added the info to my dossier and this entire thread has been bookmarked.  Good work!

 

108 posted on 04/07/2004 5:45:42 PM PDT by windchime (Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
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To: cajungirl; ravingnutter; Fedora
I am amazed,,,maybe there is a vast left wing conspiracy. Mobsters, socialists, thugs, lawyers,,,all connected.
The left isn't conspiring as they don't care if their desires are out in the public realm. They know that the vast majority of Americans simply don't care so they don't have to be secret about what they're doing. Guys like Fedora and places like FR are really hurting the game plan.
Check out well ravingnutter's link...
Name Base Entries on Ben-Veniste (Social Network Diagram) in reply 48.
You'll see that there is left and right involved though it is mostly left.
109 posted on 04/07/2004 5:46:13 PM PDT by philman_36
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To: Fedora
Excellent work. I've bookmarked this thread for further study.
110 posted on 04/07/2004 5:48:21 PM PDT by RightWingMama
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To: Ann Archy
That's a good idea you have on a 9/11 sidebar or something to that effect. If the President's enemies are going to try to turn this into another Watergate-type scandal, it will help counter that to collect in one place information exposing the partisan elements behind the attack on the President.
111 posted on 04/07/2004 5:49:37 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora
How do we go about getting Jim Robinson interested in this?? You and Ravingnutter have done TERRIFIC work....more need to use it.
112 posted on 04/07/2004 5:58:01 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: cajungirl
I am amazed,,,maybe there is a vast left wing conspiracy. Mobsters, socialists, thugs, lawyers,,,all connected.

I have made the same observation. I believe a big reason for the connection is that socialists, mobsters, and lawyers all historically have something in common: labor unions. The history of this can be traced back to the emergence of communist-agitated labor violence in the 19th century. Moving towards the present, a key figure in forging such links was Sidney Hillman, one of FDR's major links with organized labor and organized crime:

John T. Flynn, The Roosevelt Myth, Chapter Eight - The Shock Troops of the Third New Deal

There is no doubt that Hillman was one of the first labor leaders to use the goon as part of his enforcement machinery. In 1931 a garment manufacturer in Brooklyn named Guido Fererri got into a bitter quarrel with Hillman's Amalgamated and was threatened by one of its officials. A few days later Fererri was found shot to death on the street. At the time a notorious character named Louis Buckhalter, known as Lepke, was officiating as slugger and goon for a labor union and Lepke was suspected of this crime.

The Last Days of Lepke Buchalter, et al

During the two-day reprieve, the New York newspapers ran wild with speculation as to what Lepke had to reveal. Chief among the rumors was that the mob boss could provide information on Sidney Hillman, the president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Hillman was a member of President Roosevelt’s wartime administration, and his inner circle. With Hillman’s connections to organized labor, Dewey, it was believed, could link him to Lepke and parlay this information into a corruption scandal to hang over the Democrats in the November 1944 elections.").

113 posted on 04/07/2004 6:02:15 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora
Beautiful job!!!! Thanks for all your hard work and keeping us informed!!!!
114 posted on 04/07/2004 6:05:52 PM PDT by BossLady (What do your choices cost you?)
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To: RightWingMama
Thanks!--as your further study progresses, please let me know if you find anything interesting.
115 posted on 04/07/2004 6:27:42 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Ann Archy
How do we go about getting Jim Robinson interested in this?? You and Ravingnutter have done TERRIFIC work....more need to use it.

Thanks for the kind words--it's encouraging that people are taking an interest in it.

116 posted on 04/07/2004 6:32:39 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: BossLady
Thank you :)
117 posted on 04/07/2004 6:34:33 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora
Most of the stuff you've got is not new, though it may be new to some. The thing of interest is how they're all tied together in the 9-11 commission. This is a massive CYA effort so that the public doesn't call for the dismissal of the whole damned bunch of 'em responsible for counterterrorism. The DoJ appointments didn't help and caused lots of friction.
X42's administration pumped millions into the intelligence agencies and got zilch in return on the investment. Many of the good agents left because of cronyism and that left a void that could never be filled.
As I said, the exteminators are out of town though and they won't come in even if called.
Nobody gets brought to justice so the grift, abuse, and corruption continues. Everyone has something on everybody else.

Some interesting reading here...The Intelligence Community's Knowledge of the September 11 Hijackers Prior to September 11, 2001
The CIA employee told us that he had, at the time, been assigned to work at the FBI Strategic Information Operations Center to fix problems "in communicating between the CIA and the FBI." His e-mail, however, makes no mention of the CIA's determination that al-Mihdhar held a U.S. multiple-entry visa.
What a failure SIOC was. And who was in charge? Check it out.
And check this out...John O'Neill was an F.B.I. agent with an obsession: the growing threat of Al Qaeda.
Bodine denied his application to reënter the country. She refuses to discuss that decision. "Too much is being made of John O'Neill's being in Yemen or not," she told me. "John O'Neill did not discover Al Qaeda. He did not discover Osama bin Laden. So the idea that John or his people or the F.B.I. were somehow barred from doing their job is insulting to the U.S. government, which was working on Al Qaeda before John ever showed up. This is all my embassy did for ten months. The fact that not every single thing John O'Neill asked for was appropriate or possible does not mean that we did not support the investigation."
Snip...Meanwhile, intelligence had been streaming in concerning a likely Al Qaeda attack. "It all came together in the third week in June," Clarke said. "The C.I.A.'s view was that a major terrorist attack was coming in the next several weeks." On July 5th, Clarke summoned all the domestic security agencies—the Federal Aviation Administration, the Coast Guard, Customs, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the F.B.I.—and told them to increase their security in light of an impending attack.
Snip...When O'Neill told ABC's Isham of his decision to work at the Trade Center, Isham had said jokingly, "At least they're not going to bomb it again." O'Neill had replied, "They'll probably try to finish the job."
Lots of info and names in there. Happy reading.

118 posted on 04/07/2004 6:38:39 PM PDT by philman_36
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To: Fedora
Especially notice this comment by Bodine...which was working on Al Qaeda before John ever showed up
119 posted on 04/07/2004 6:43:09 PM PDT by philman_36
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To: Fedora
Very Good work - bedtime bookmark!
120 posted on 04/07/2004 7:44:06 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Have a nice day or else!)
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